Wow.

Biopsy back and I'm "all clear", no sign of the severe dysplasia. Apparently the pap just diagnosed incorrectly. Now I'm just supposed to get a pap every 6 months for a few years. Crazy. How many lives do I have? Am I a cat?

In other news, has anyone else seen that the Shamwow guy got arrested for beating up a hooker? Good stuff.

biopsy results

have not come in yet. Dr just let me know they aren't back from the lab as of yet.

fuck.

hanging low.

I'm staying much out of the public eye right now, so just letting you all know I'm okay. No results yet, I'm still waiting.

holy shit.

I just accidentally marked ALL OF MY UNREAD BLOGS as READ. On accident.

Yeah, I had like 580 unread due to ICLW but I still get to the newest in everyone's blogs when I get that late. And I read the first one, clicked "mark all as read" and WHAM. All, I mean ALL, was marked as read. I even got the "are you sure?" and I was like "yes, you silly computer, I said to mark them, didn't I?". But I thought I was only telling igoogle to mark the one I was reading as all read, not all 580.

So, I must start anew. If I have missed something, I am so sorry! If there is anything you wanted ~me~ to know, please give me a poke, won't you???


p.s. - Sarah, I watched your video, went to comment and I only get errors when trying to comment on your blog. No idea why. I'm full of errors this week.

okay, now that I seem to be able to post ...

I did get the error, but "tried again" as those errors always tell you to do, and it worked.

Let's see ... today in bullets

~ Took a friend to the airport at 4am this morning. Awesome. Why do I say "yes" to these requests? Sounds like a perfectly reasonable thing when they ask, but a totally different thing when my alarm is waking me up at 3:40a.

~ Went to pedi and will blog about it on my other blog next.

~ Came home and got an email from live nation, telling me about upcoming shows. Promptly spent $597.95 on tickets.
- Punk Rocks festival at Red Rocks
- Pennywise at the fillmore
- Jane's Addiction at fiddler's green
- Ziggy Marley and 311 at Red Rocks.
- Comedian Joel McHale in Denver somewhere.
- Flight of the Conchords at Red Rocks (already purchased, so not part of this spending spree).

~ Still freaking out about results of my biopsy. I hope it comes in tomorrow. But if it's bad, it can wait until monday because my husband leaves to go out of town first thing in the morning.

~ Thanks for all the kind words on my videos! Many of you said I didn't sound like you thought I would. Well, how did you think I would?

~ I think I ran out of things to update you on. They'd just get more boring as I keep typing, so I'll stop.

Can I post now?

I have been getting errors for almost 2 days now as I try to publish to this blog. It's been pissing me off.

I'm laughing my ass off right now

I just watched the 2 "question and answer" videos I put up in the last post.

I am so embarrassed over how fucking dorky I am!!!

The question and answer videos!!!

Okay, the videos were too big so I hosted them elsewhere. To see them, just click HERE and you can see both videos. I broke them up in two.

Warning - they are boring. And I'm just not that interesting at all it seems. I can hide all I want behind typing, but you see the real me on a video.



~biopsy~

I got some preliminary information. And it's not that good. Let me try to explain by drawing what the doctor drew for me. Here is the spectrum of cervical results ...


Apparently most people who have an abnormal pap smear fall into this one little place on the sprectrum on the cervical results chart...



Now, to explain where I am, let me talk about cervical dysplasia. From the literature, "Cervical dysplasia is a term used to describe the appearance of abnormal cells on the surface of the cervix, the lowest part of the uterus. These changes in cervical tissue are classified as mild, moderate, or severe." ...


"Mild dysplasia is the most common form, and up to 70% of these cases regress on their own (i.e., the cervical tissue returns to normal without treatment). Moderate and severe dysplasia are less likely to self-resolve and have a higher rate of progression to cancer. The greater the abnormality, the higher the risk for developing cervical cancer." So, knowing my luck lately, guess where I am? Ding~ding~ding!!! If you guess this, you are correct! ...



Adding in the + hpv for the high risk cervical cancer strain, the lesions are more likely precancerous.

The next step was the Colposcopy. "Depending on the severity of the dysplasia, results of the HPV test, and other risk factors, colposcopy is the next step in the diagnostic process. Generally, a colposcopy is performed if the cervical cells are distinctly abnormal."

So we did that. And "if abnormal cells are seen, a biopsy is usually done." Guess what? Yeah. So a biopsy was done.

We are now waiting for the results to confirm the Stage III dyplasia and to see if the cells may already be cancerous or simply in their precancerous stage. The next steps will all be dependent on the results. These should come in Friday and I will let you all know my prognosis.

Another video

And forgive me. I recorded sideways and upside down. It's probably horrible to watch, but it's my morning message.

AND DAMN IT. I was going to wish Pam good luck on today's beta on this video. And that is what I forgot to say. So good luck Pam!!!

This isn't THE video, but a video.

It seems my video was too big. But this is the test one I used to check out my camera. So at least you can see me and hear what I sound like. I'm such a huge dork.