gettin' old, vol. 2

Well, my doctor thinks there is "something else" going on in my body beyond the bulging discs and is afraid that treatment of that might mask something else going on. What exactly, he doesn't seem to know and speculates only to the point of saying possibly something chemical, possibly hormonal, he doesn't know. But he wants me to see someone else.

As I am willing to do so in hopes things might get defined for me, if not solved, I don't like to hear that. Dad had a tumor on his pancreas the size of a baseball when he was 40 that almost killed him, and I, being so similar to him in body type, can't shake the wondering thoughts that there could be some hereditary link there--which scares the living hell out of me. After all, if that came about when he was 40, it was developing in his 30's (so I am not *really* 93!!!)

But best to know for sure, isn't it? He said that this other woman should be able to give me the answers through a series of tests that he can't give.

>>sigh<< We shall see.