It's been awhile since I've stayed up past midnight. Usually, Mike and I are asleep by 10pmish..
Maybe since Mike is away for the week, I feel like rebelling? Nahhh..
I caught up on some much needed sleep this weekend, and got to have my dog with me to keep me company. He's such a great companion.
2 more days alone, and then I'm off to Savannah. I checked the weather yesterday and today and so far, it looks like there's going to be some rainy weather most of the days I'll be there.
I'm not going to get bummed out though...there are lots of things I've planned to do that are mostly indoors ;)
Anyway... I'm nervous as hell to find out the results from my latest pulmonary appt that I had on Thursday.
The last test I had done was a bone marrow biopsy in November and those results came back negative.
This past Thursday I had a follow-up CT scan of the chest done. The lymphnodes on my lung haven't changed much but the infiltrate has gotten bigger. I retook the PFT (pulmonary function test) and my results (usually being borderline normal) are now above normal. GOOD NEWS!!!
I also had some blood tests done. I'm not sure what tests exactly were done (i should ask more questions when I'm there)...but I think they are repeats of things that were done in the past, plus some.
My pulmonologist was a little concerned with the infiltrate getting larger, since I had a broncoscopy at the end of last year to flush it out. The results from whatever fluid was taken during that procedure...came back negative as well... Not exactly sure what they were testing for though. I guess just any sort of abnormality.
Anyway... My pulm told me they need to be more aggressive now, b/c there is something wrong, we just don't know what and we need to find out. So that day, I went and got a PET Scan done to see if the infiltrate area is 'active'. It was an interesting procedure. They had these nice little private rooms with leather lazy boy recliners, a flat screen wall mounted tv and a remote... I guess they provide these rooms b/c the prep time for these test is kind of long ... (1-2 hours).
I had to drink this huge waterbottle full of Barium (eck - 'cause it was warm) and then they injected me with a radioactive sugar. The scan itself too about 30 minutes. They did the scan from the hips up.
I finally finished all my testing late that night ... having started at 9am after a 1.5 hr commute there and home.
Anyway - I still have to clean up the place before I leave, and still have to pack.
Babysitting my niece tomorrow night so I wonder where I will find the time.
Peace...Labels: health, thoughts, trips |
