Shannon Larratt is Zentastic

Since YouTube compresses stuff too much, let me give you alternate links if you want an unmarred one: MP4 or WMV. Anyway, what you're seeing in the video are sectional x-rays across my leg horizontally (if I was standing), moving downward toward my feet. It starts just above my kneecap, which you'll see appearing at the top of the screen. Then you can watch my joint resolve, and then on to the lower half, where if you look at the bottom right you can see the tumor's size and shape and what it's connected to. Pretty neat!

when lights go out
I will be running
over your name

PS. The music is meant to be funny.

But yeah, it is kind of freaky too. But the good news is that when they did the bone density scan (which is what the picture below is — some sort of nuclear imaging — I guess the dark spots in my gut are my body pulling the isotope out of my bloodstream and into my bladder), they found no other metastases (I think that's what they're called) elsewhere in my body, which I believe means that they're quite certain there's no cancer spreading or anything like that.

I was wondering why the series of nurses and other staff I dealt with today were looking at me weird (although they were all very nice) until I got the records (which I used to make the video) — they've got me listed as “MS” (as in the female gender) in their records. Hope that doesn't get me a sex change during surgery.