Tuesday, March 16, 2010

A New Hole -- Just What I Needed

So the procedure went fine. Enough lidocaine - pain medication that works immediately as soon as he sticks the little needle in -- just like at the dentist - and I didn't feel a thing. Nearly. Well, the surgeon did have to sort of lean on it to get through the tough bit of bone, but a bump in a grocery line would have been more forceful.

The challenge is that he wasn't too satisfied with the stuff he got to come up in to the needle. He kept saying, "Well, I got blood." But he didn't sound satisfied. Then he used a different technique to get what he said would be a 'core'. I guess it was supposed to be like the geologists get from snow, rock, ice, whatever... But he only caught a bit of it. I guess whatever is in there is too slippery to stay stuck inside the tube thing he had.

He backed out and tried a different angle, and then announced he had a bit of a segment at the end, he thought.

Once he was done, he came to me to say that he wasn't sure that the sample he delivered was sufficient to evaluate well enough to learn what about that tissue is causing it to become enlarged and to cause pressure on the nerves that pass around / through that area.

He said that we may need to come back for an open surgical biopsy.

Dr S called me to say the same at the end of the day, and said he'd call tomorrow with the lab results.

... and that's all I have to say about that ...

1 comment:

  1. So; I found out from calling Dr S office that he is actually 'giving a talk' today and ... anyway the lab is pretty unlikely to have gotten the work done already today.
    Fran asked me to 'Be patient and call me again tomorrow and I'll do what I can to get them to sent he results over to Dr S as soon as they have something for you, Mark."

    We'll just go with that.

    - M

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