Health Update: The Scary Parts
Still not 100% sure what is wrong, but it ain’t the Big C
Hello, me lovelies. Please forgive me for not updating my health situation until now. I’ve been dealing with the huge possibility that I might have had bladder cancer and that possibility had me figuring out what my life’s priorities should be.
Since early May, I have been dealing with a lot — too much, in fact. It began with what I thought was merely a UTI. Turns out, I had kidney stones, but that still wasn’t the whole of the situation. After getting rid of the kidney stones, I still had blood in my urine and globs of bloody tissue. The Urologist mentioned the possibility of bladder cancer since my white blood count was high, but I had no ‘real’ infections, or so he thought.
And then I caught COVID — the Eris strain — that delayed further treatment and diagnosis for nearly another month. I’m not going to lie; this bout of COVID knocked me on my ass. I was hospitalized twice with it because it resulted in pneumonia. I finally recovered from that just recently, but now I’m dealing with Long Covid symptoms — yeah me!
Anyway, yesterday, I had a cystoscopy done — a scope into my urinary tract and up into my bladder. This was to see what is causing the blockage of my not being able to empty my bladder and to check if cancer…
