Thursday 5 July 2012

CT guided lung biopsy...

Yesterday I turned up at the hospital Surgical Admissions Unit (SAU) for my biopsy.  I went the long way around - I will never ever pass through those doors again.  When I turned up at 7.20am, I was not on their list.  We had paid $250 to stay in a house for the night and half the day so that there was room for 3 miserable-still getthing over the D's & V's-grumpy-tired children to run around and not trip over themselves or their father who had them by himself.

I had better have been on their list...

They checked again and yes, I was there but booked for the 11th.  I didn't have my paper but I am a reasonably persuasive person and they were happy to have me and wait until Radiology opened at 8ish and ring to find out.  Of course at 8.20 rad said yes, yes she's booked.

With no notes or even info on what was happening SAU 'prepped' me.  Actually they just got me to put on a gown but I refused to take off my longjohns, socks and hat.  I'm not stupid.  It's a hospital - it's cold.

They dutifully delivered me on the bed to Rad who bemoaned the fact there was no IV.  So I trotted off around the corner to oncology where they accessed the port, then I trotted back like a good little patient.

At about 10am in we went, after marking then scanning, local anaesthetic,scan, more local, scan, poke with big needle, scan, poke more, scan more over and over and over - they got 'hopefully a few cells'. And then I had to lie on my hole.  About an inch from my sternum to my right and directly along my scar was where they had poked, this bit of me had to be on the bed with the rest of my weight above it to keep pressure on so I didn't get a pneumothorax.

I lay like this for 2 and a half hours.

I was supposed to go for a chest x-ray at 1.15 to check all was good and no air leaking out, at 2pm SAU rang Rad who said any minute.  About half 2 I went up still lying like a broken person, got to sit up and have a 5 sec chest x-ray and sent back to SAU to be discharged.

Ready to go home starving and dehydrated, I went to the toilet, inhaled to cough and started to spew because of the disgusting purple toilet smelly accessory thing (whoever invented them needs a poke in the eye with a burnt stick).  Then of course everyone was excited.  But I had my grumpy face by then so I just went home anyway despite them saying I should wait and have a delicious sandwich of white bread and cheese slice.

We were home just before 5pm, what a long day for everyone.

Lung biopsy done...(I hope..)

3 comments:

  1. Really? You passed up their delicious sandwich? You have true self-control!

    On a serious note, I really really hope they got what they went in for.

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