THE Ultrasound

So I go to see a Gastroenterologist in late Feb and he thinks maybe I have gallbladder disease.  My mother had hers out at age 29.  An Ultrasound exam ends with a Radiologist telling me I have lymphoma and need a CT scan right away.  I wish he hadn't sugar coated it and told me the real deal-yikes. Enlarged spleen and lymph nodes were compressing my stomach and causing the trouble eating.  Talk about a turning point-how to have your life change in the space of one sentence.  Get to drink that wonderful oral CT contrast stuff, have IV contrast, and  then they do a CT of chest/abdomen/pelvis.  Don't ask how much radiation that is-you probably don't need a night light for a week.