July 7, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n
David had more blood work and then had an appointment with a gastroenterologist (Dr. G). We discussed the abnormal lab results and abdominal pain. He noted from the CT scan mild mural thickening of the rectosigmoid area with distal colonic diverticulosis without the evidence of diverticulitis. According to after visit notes, Dr. G stated David could just have ulcerative colitis or proctocolitis but was more concerned about a malignancy. He ordered a prompt colonoscopy with possible polypectomy and biopsy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
CEA Tumor marker 5.5<\/p>\n\n\n\n
GIVEN STRAIGHT (-d)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Dr. G gave it to me as straight as I could have ever wanted, and I can\u2019t say how much I appreciate that in hindsight. He went over the details of every option and reviewed any and all questions I had. His concern was significant and everything he did showed that. I can\u2019t say that it made me feel \u201cbetter\u201d because of everything concerned, but it made me feel like I was in good hands, and that\u2019s exactly what I needed at that moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" July 7, 2023 David had more blood work and then had an appointment with a gastroenterologist (Dr. G). We discussed the abnormal lab results and abdominal pain. He noted from the CT scan mild mural thickening of the rectosigmoid area with distal colonic diverticulosis without the evidence of diverticulitis. According to after visit notes, Dr. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gassett.info\/david\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gassett.info\/david\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gassett.info\/david\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gassett.info\/david\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gassett.info\/david\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gassett.info\/david\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":366,"href":"https:\/\/gassett.info\/david\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions\/366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gassett.info\/david\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gassett.info\/david\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gassett.info\/david\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}