Back for Maintenance

It's been awhile so I thought I would post an update on how things were going.  So for so good for testicular cancer.  I had an ultra sound and blood tests awhile back that all came back negative.  Big time Yippee! for that.  In about a week I go in for a regularly scheduled CAT Scan and another ultra sound in December.

On the swallowing front things have gone backwards a bit.  I have read about other cancer patients that have had to go back for "maintenance" procedures but was hoping I wouldn't fall into that category.  Unfortunately that doesn't seem to be the case so I have started up the dilation procedures again.  My first one in this series, 17th overall, was a little over a week ago.  That procedure got me back to 16.5.  I have another one setup for December.  My guess is that it will take 2-4 more procedures to get back to 20 MM then I will have to set up some sort of maintenance schedule to stay there.  Hopefully it isn't more than once a year.  Other than that things are going well.