A Breath of Fresh Air

air inside my body

Last Updated on November 2, 2022 by Tom Kane

Ever wondered about air and what you would do if you couldn’t catch your breath? Panic I suppose.  It crossed my mind, big time, during the Covid-19 Pandemic, and more so when I started to feel extremely breathless around December 2021. I could breathe, but only seemed to be able to walk a few steps before I had to stop and breathe in as much as possible. Bending down left me very breathless and I was beginning to think Covid-19 had caught up with me.

It turns out it was all down to Lymphoplasmacytic Lymphoma. The Big C had struck. I was lucky, the Lymphoma was treatable and off I went into the land of chemotherapy and all the side effects that manifested on my body.

Now, almost a year later, the air that I breath and swallow still impact my health. The X-Ray above shows little black patches. When I first saw them, I assumed the cancer had spread, having seen, and heard how cancer shows as black areas on some x-rays. Turns out it’s all very benign.

The X-Ray was taken because one of the chemo side effects is constipation, and I’m having dire problems with that. I was burping and farting (never mind the gut-wrenching belly aches) at will. So, this X-Ray was taken to show if there was a problem. There isn’t a problem, but it does show that there’s a lot of air inside me… that’s what the black patches are.

So, things are still on track for my hoped-for outcome of no more chemo from early December 2020 and, also hopefully, the defeat of my Lymphoplasmacytic Lymphoma. It’s like a breath of fresh air (forgive the pun, dear reader) knowing things are moving along in the right direction.

As an aside, the X-Ray was among a multitude of procedures I’ve had, from Colonoscopy to MRI scan and a few others. More on this in a later post.

Air today, gone tomorrow… I hope.

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