I have been a little nervous for my appointment today and had a hard time falling asleep last night because of it. It has taken a couple of days for my bowels to feel back to normal after the barium drink from my CT scan.  M&M left for camp this morning so my mom came over to watch the kids for me.  I showed up at my appointment and when the nurse practitioner came in to talk to me she started out by saying that they had the results from my CT scan and there was something weird on it that they are not sure what to make of.  On the scan there is a small nodule looking thing on one of my adrenal glands (which are on the top of the kidneys).  It is only about 1 1/2 cm in size.  She said that they don't think it is related to the cancer at all because that is not a normal place for the cancer to reappear and my CA-125 marker number has actually decreased again since my last blood work (it is now at 22).  She said that they would bring the scan up on the computer and have the doctor look through it with me to show me what they are talking about.

Once the nurse practitioner finished up my exam she left and then came back a few minutes later with the doctor.  She pulled up my CT scan on the computer and showed me the nodule that they are seeing in the scan and then she went back through my previous scans to see if she could spot it in the previous scans.  It was hard to tell on my scan that I had in March, but on my scan in December and my first scan back in October the doctor thought that she could see the exact same nodule in the same spot in each of the scans.  The radiologist just checked my current scan with the one in March and since he/she didn't see this nodule in the scan marked it as something new.  My doctor said that she would call the radiology department and have them look through the scans with her to make sure that she was seeing what she thought she was.  If this is something that has been there for a while and hasn't changed at all then it is not something new that we need to worry about.  Other than that my CT scan looked fine and all of my lab work was normal.

So after meeting with the doctor I went over to the infusion lab.  Once they called me back to get me seated the nurse came and told me that the doctor was on the phone and wanted to talk to me.  She said that she had talked to the radiology department and that they agreed with her that this nodule was on the previous scans and they just hadn't noticed it before.  They will just keep an eye on it with future scans but we feel that it is not cancer related.  And apparently it is too small to get a good picture on with an MRI so we are just not going to worry about it.

Other than that my infusion went very smoothly and I didn't get the headache with it that I got the last time which was nice!