YESTERDAY’S ULTRASOUND

 If nothing had shown up on yesterday’s ultrasound then a biopsy would not have been necessary, because it’s impossible to biopsy nothing.

If nothing had shown up on yesterday’s ultrasound then the uptake of radioactive dye, creating a hot spot of concern on my PET scan, would have been due to a pocket in the soft tissue that offered naught to worry about.

As the ultrasound technician did see something of concern so obvious as to have been visible to me, she called in the interventionist radiologist (and Will) while I steeled myself for bad news.

Upon examining my ultrasound images, which clearly showed a small subcutaneous mass on my left flank (my right lung having been removed), I’d believed the radiologist’s diagnosis would lean heavily toward metastases, and thus was I giddily relieved to hear this specialist, who views countless ultrasound images, say, “This looks like a sebaceous cyst to me, but we’ll biopsy it in order to be certain.”

A sebaceous cyst— 

Who woulda thought!

Oh—please let it be!

At least we’ve received

A welcome reprieve

So as to truly celebrate

Mother’s Day with

Family and friends

Feeling as though

We’d all dodged a bullet

Though

We’ll not really

Breathe easy till

The pathology report

Has been read and received

Most likely on Monday

🙋🏻‍♀️Annie

😊Whew!

Thank goodness for

A surprise as sweet as

The possibility of

Nothing more than

A sebaceous cyst