Drew Wohl

According to Webster's dictionary: Scanxiety - is a feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease related to CTs, MRIs or similar medical tests for determining whether cancer exists or has progressed. Okay, it really is not a word in Webster's dictionary. But it is a word cancer patients (and often their friends and family) know very well. Winding through cancer visits and scans have a various level of scanxiety. It depends on the timing of the scan and whether it is a benchmark scan in someone's mind. For instance, the first scan after starting chemo had a higher level of scanxiety than other scans during chemo for me. A follow up scan after it appeared that something was growing on my lung had a high scanxiety factor. Today was a higher scanixety day. When the scan in the fall showed my cancer was back and inoperable, I began alternative therapies (mushrooms/herbs), but they had only been implemented for about 4 weeks before the first follow up scan. The first follow u...

[ROUGH REPORT OF LAS OLAS TRIATHLON.  I HAVE BEEN REMISS IN POSTING] It was the day before my first triathlon and I was feeling pretty good.  I had following the training that my coaches set out.  I had a sense of where I thought I would be in the race time wise (which turned out to be correct) and my main concerns were what to eat and making sure I was hydrated. For the later I had purchased a couple of cases of water for my hotel room during my stay and made sure to drink 8 16 ounce bottles that day to ensure I hit the target.  I had no idea what I wanted for dinner, so went with my old standby favorite of chicken parmagina and pasta. Everyone warned me I would not sleep the night before the race, but it really was a non-issue.  I had a bit of an allergy/cold thing happening that was cleared up with some Alka Seltzer nightime and it got me to sleep.  Other than waking up in the middle of the night with the realization we had not changed flights to go home...