I am bored out of my mind! Funny thing When I'm working and stressed off my ass, all I want is to be home. But after being here for TWO months with no end in sight, I'm not of that opinion anymore. The Mass in my right lung is not malignant. Thank you God and Godess! It is a Pulmonary Abcess and has at this point shrunk from 10 cent. to 7....I will be on Augmenten for at least another 2 months but I'll tak that over Chemo amy day.
I'm still having trouble with shortness of breath, more sone days than others, so that's encouraging. Coumadin, they tell me, is somehting I'll need to be on for the rest of my life... Oh goody. There ARE other meds out there I could take...Xaralto...but there's a rub. What they DON'T tell you on their television commercial is that if you're on that and have a major bleed, they can't STOP it. Um, yeah. I'm not thinking so Thanks. I mean, odds at that I'd never have a major bleed, but if you'd asked me six months ago if I was ever going to throw a DVT and have a blood clot in my lungs I'd have said no. So I'm not risking it.
I'm alert enough to drive myself to my doctor's appointments, of which there are MANY....Jeez! This coming week it's another chest film and a Pulmonary Function test with ABG's. I HATE ABG's! They HURT! But ok. I'll be a big girl and deal with it. The tech who will do the test is easy on the eyes... couild be worse.
I see my Attending Physician on the 1st. He's already adviserd me that I'm probably not going back to work until the second or third week of Nov. At this rate thay'll have to re-train me!!!! 90 days out? Who would have thought it?
But I really can't complain. I came a lot closer to the edge than I like thinking about here. And I KNOW how lucky I am that things have turned out the way they have. I figure it just means that my job here is not done.
Blessings.
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