I don't think I have ever walked into a doctors rooms and felt more at ease and confident that I was in the right place - Prof Joseph is the real deal, a lovely man and obviously a leader in his specialised area.
He quickly sat me down, had a good old look in the mouth and before the local anesthetic has a chance to work had taken a biopsy OUCH! can still feel that....he was very clear with me in terms of what this lump probably was, again told me very clearly and concisely what the potential options would be and depending on the outcome of the biopsy and the scans what the way forward would be. I think to be honest there and then he knew what the deal was, obviously he needed to check it and get the results back though.
He then organised an appointment for me to go for a CT Scan and various other tests which I got done that afternoon, this also included an iodine scan and an ultrasound. Talking to the ultrasound doctor he, I guess gave me the first bits of good news, that it was very localised, what they determine as a T1 growth and that my lymph system didn't seem to have been infiltrated, which is a key carrier for cancer.
I just needed to wait for the results!!!
Welcome to my blog, my name is Stephen Sharp and this is the start of my journey to fight cancer. I will try and walk through the stages of my treatment and hopefully give anyone out there suffering with the same problem an insight into what I have been through or am going through.
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