My amazing good news: I had an MRI on Thursday. I saw my doctor (who has done hundreds of Whipples at MSKCC), and he said he doesn't see an appreciable difference from my MRI in December. He said I don't need a Whipple, I don't have cancer, and he'll make an appointment for me to have another MRI in 3-4 months! Am I going with the opinion that I like? Absolutely! Aside from just feeling joyful, my experience has left me with a lot of ideas about hospitals, doctors, getting medical opinions, having scans at various facilities, trying to be educated from scratch very quickly. I hope I can think of a way to make it useful for somebody else, recognizing that it was just one person's experience. For the last 5 months I have been very conscious of "watching-and-waiting," not the fun part. I'm done with that. For the next 3-4 months I will just be living my normal, asymptomatic life, and very grateful for it. I'll be much better prepared if anything changes then.