Category: spleen

Sharing my cancer story. It might be helpful, it might be interesting, it might be informative.

  • Further spleen adventures

    Last year I had a splenic infarct which killed off 20% of my spleen (more about that incident on this post). Terribly painful; I don’t recommend. There is no treatment for a splenic infarct (unless it takes over most of your spleen and then you get a splenectomy); you just have to wait it out…

  • The in-between years

    PART 2 OF 3 So, there I was, late winter of 2016. I had just had two major cancer surgeries in five months. For the next couple of years my oncologist monitored me closely. I had a few scares (e.g. A Lump In My Breast!!! which turned out to just be a fatty lump.) along…