By March 2010 I decided I was accountable for my health and needed to get proactive. Why I waited so long I have no idea. I met with my GP, explained the situation and asked for a CEA blood test, he scheduled a full set of tests, including liver functions.
Just over a week later we returned from a weekend away in the caravan to find a phone message from the GP, left on Saturday morning, asking me to contact him by cell phone to discuss the blood test results.
I called him, all the blood results were fine except that CEA was 20.8!
Very quickly the hospital scheduled a CAT scan of head, chest and abdomen and on 21st April I met with the colon surgical team.
Prior to the meeting the worst possible outcome for me was no tumors detected by the CAT scan, which, with a CEA of 20, would indicate multiple small tumors through out my body, second worse was something in my brain.
Fortunately (??) a single 26mm lesion was evident in my liver. I was VERY relieved, actually felt quite happy with the discovery.
Next step was for a meeting with the liver specialist.
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