#ablation

This is my second time for this particular spot as unfortunately, our damn nerves grow back.

I’ve had enough of these procedures now that I am mentally prepared. But I have to stop eating eight hours before my arrival time. And no liquids starting four hours beforehand.

So I set an alarm for 6 am and got up to eat breakfast and drink my tea. I will be hungry enough this afternoon, no way I’m skipping my breakfast too.

I’m really hoping this fixes the worst pain in my back, albeit temporarily. My sciatic nerve has definitely grown back and the doctor’s office said it sounds like they will need to zap that one next.

Functional nonlinear optical nanoparticles synthesized by laser ablation

Nonlinear optics is an important research direction with various applications in laser manufacturing, nanostructures' fabrication, sensor design, optoelectronics, biophotonics, and quantum optics, etc. Nonlinear optical materials are the fundamental building blocks, which are critical for broad fields ranging from scientific research, industrial production, to military. After many years of development, nonlinear optics has become the pillars for various frontier research and widely used optical systems, including laser fabrication, optical imaging, information processing & communications, as well as nanoscale lithography. Advances in this topic can potentially boost many disciplines.

Nanotechnologies have paved the ways to engineer new materials and break the conventional limits for nonlinear optics. Nanoparticles are one of the most important members that are widely studied, which has a long history of thousands years. Nanoparticles demonstrate great potentials due to their flexibility to engineer and enhance their nonlinear optical properties superior to their bulk counterparts. In the past decade, optical devices and components based on nonlinear optical nanoparticles are receiving more and more attentions due to their enhanced performance and multifunctional capabilities. Many of them also show good biocompatibility, which extends the application scope for nonlinear optical devices.

The one inoperable tumor I had is officially negative for cancer!

In other words, while I do have two small lymph nodes that are cancerous they will be treated either by more aggressive immunotherapy or ablation.

*Ablation is like surgery, it’s cut out, but is done by interventional radiology and is less invasive/quicker to heal.

Either way, it’s small, it’s treatable, and I’m not (currently) dying.

I’m exhausted and tired of dealing with this since it’s been on and off for nearly 7 years now, but I’m not going anywhere yet.