Too Busy For Cancer

Sorry we didn't write yesterday afternoon. The day just got away from us. I am just going to try and give a quick update of yesterdays events.

I arrived around 8am and they started my biopsy around 9:30am. It is a very complicated biopsy because what they see on the scan is very small. They actually do the biopsy in the cat scan. So basically they would put in the needle and then scan to make sure it was in the right place and then try and take a sample. The doctor described it as trying to put a toothpick in a grape. It is very hard to hit it just perfectly. They ended up using eight separate needles to try and get a sample. There was actually a tech in the room with us that was checking each sample for abnormal cells. I guess everything they were getting was coming back normal so they just kept trying. Needless to say being prodded eight times in the lung did cause some partial collapsing. They kept me in the hospital and took an x-ray once an hour. They were really on the fence of admitting me for the night and putting a tube through my chest into my lung.

During this long wait, I of course struck up a conversation with the patients around me. I was surrounded by cancer survivors. We talked for over 2 hours while we waited for our turns. Then out of the blue my friend Andrea showed up! She had to have her port accessed so she could have her cat scan with dye. We of course laughed that once again our paths would cross in the hospital. The nurse that was in charge said she had worked there for five years and has never seen patients having full on conversations like we were. I thought that was funny. At one point we were all laughing and she had to tell us to keep it down to hear the person she was talking to on the phone.

Finally at 3:00 in the afternoon they released me. I guess my x-ray showed a small improvement. Thank god because I had two parties to go to that night and I didn't want to miss them. I did make both but I was completely exhausted by 10pm and slept eleven hours. I feel much better today and I am looking forward to the weekend. Sorry if this post has tons of errors but I am running out to meet a friend and I am short on time. Life goes on.......