A Game We Can All Play While We Wait for the First Official SCCA Oncologist Check-in

If you're like me, you may remember reading Highlights or one of those other kid magazines that were full of games. One of the games provided two lists and the point was to draw the lines that would connect the relevant pairs together. So you might have a list of animals on one side (zebra, jaguar, etc.) and a list of markings on the other (spots, stripes, etc.), and you took your pencil and connected the relevant pairs together.

Tomorrow is my first appointment with the SCCA oncologist as my official oncologist, and one of the topics of conversation will be connecting the last ten weeks worth of symptoms with their likely causal factors. But since it'll be awhile before we get the official verdict, I thought it might be entertaining to let y'all try your hand at playing oncologist and identifying the relevant pairs. Tomorrow I'll post an update with my doc's official answers.

So match the cause to the symptom:

Symptoms:
1. Mouth sores
2. Neuropathy
3. Blood where there definitely shouldn't be blood
4. Back pain, returning for the first time since my tumor was removed last July
5. Weird aches and pains, mostly in my hips and legs
6. Fatigue

Causes:
a. Cancer
b. Xeloda
c. Avastin
d. Being an old guy
e. Eating processed food and other garbage
f. Sitting on my butt instead of running around the neighborhood
g. Being to tall for my own good

Here are my guesses: 1-b; 2-b; 3-a; 4-a or g; 5-f; 6-a or b.

See, cancer can be fun.

Update:
Here are the oncologist's answers: 1-b; 2-none of the above, it's a delayed reaction from the chemo infusions; 3-none of the above (don't ask); 4-g; 5-f; 6-b.