Introduction
June 28, 2025, Saturday Home 630 am Four days ago, June 24, 2025, Tuesday, I woke up with right flank pain. The pain lasted for 30 minutes. I was screaming. There was no radiation of pain. It was like a bad spasm; I called Bella and asked her to come home. We went to the urgent care on Tenaya. Urine test showed blood. It was a kidney stone. The CT scan was initially looked at by the doctor. She said there was no stone. She wanted to wait for the official radiology findings. I came home and went to sleep. In the afternoon, she called. The radiologist confirmed that there was no stone. However, he found a lesion in the pancreas. “A lesion?” I thought. A quick black cloud hoovered over me. My first thought was, “Shit! This is not good.” Then the second thought was, “This is it!” Then I asked her, “What is the size?” she said, “1.5 cm. It was hypodense.” Pancreatic lesion. The first diagnosis was always cancer. The bad news was, most pancreatic cancer, when diagnosed, are metastati...