For those of you that are interested. I got the result back from the genetic test (STRATA) that was done on the tumor cells. The mutation that was detected is KRAS G12D. It is common to have a KRAS G12 mutation in stomach cancers. I have read a little bit about it, but cannot read more. I just don’t feel good reading about anything related to this disease. I have a bad tendency to focus on the potential bad things…
My condition is rare, possibly only one in a million people. It has been seen often enough to be characterized, but only by specialists. In the operating room, the team quickly classified the disease as appendiceal cancer, and gave it a low-grade. Grading tumors generally refers to morphology (how they look compared to normal cells) and may not be indicative of how aggressive the cancer is growing. A number of specimens were taken and forwarded to Johns Hopkins. I continued…
Cherry blossoms are symbolic in the lives of Japanese samurai. Samurai had a strict moral code to honor life – and death. They had a duty to simultaneously realize the inevitability of death and to release any fear of it. I realized I had to face this fear when I slowly woke up from my surgery on January 27, 2020. Besides from a whole lot of blur I remember two things – the first was a mans voice saying, “Here…