Friday, July 9, 2010

The doctors appt...

Man.
it never ends...
so today went to childrens speciality hospital in minneapolis. First off so much constrution and traffic on the way to get there i was such a damn hassle. Finally got there, and had to wait for my mom to get there too since we drove separetly. Anyways, took the lady forever to check me in. Finally got called back, had a good appointmet - as in i Like my new doctors and the nurse practioner and such. The conclussions are really vague.
They basically are testing me or a variety of things. One thing thoughthe doctors said that it DOESNT matter that i had this BCG immunization in russia, because it would have expired by now, so now there is a reason why im getting a positive. it could be ACTUAL TB. or it could be another type of myobacterium or whatever she called it. So they had to take my blood and test it with Quantiferon". .. and this will tell us if the tuberculosis bacteria is present in my blood... If it IS present then they will procede to do a sputum test ....haha sweet.. and gross.... and then if that comes back positive then i have to go on the rigorous therapy for ACTIVE TB... which includes 4-5 different pills a day and it screws up my LIVER. right, juts what i need. So if it comes back negative then they will do a chest xray to see where things are going- well, no matter what they are oding the chest xray ANYWAYS- next week sometime. But back on to if its negative- if the quantiferon test is negative they will put me on the 9 months therapy plan with just the 1 pill a day for latent TB, (even if i really dont even have it.. stupid i say, but whatever, its a precautionary approach i guess) ... So if its negative and my chest xray still shows something then we have to go down a different path with other diseases. A couple she had in mind were Histoblastoma, some other blastomas i forgot what she called it.. she is testing me for HIV, im pretty sure im neg haha. just considering i tried to donate blood way back when i found out with my liver, and i know that came back neg. and theres no chance i could have HIV but shes testing me anyways, because of my immunolgoy history with all the chronic infections ive had with my ears and sinus's and such. Apparently its a red flag. When she was asking me today about my backround she asked every single question there was about the enviroment and what ive been aorund, cats, dogs, dirt, saw dust, mining, and the list goes on and on and on... i wonder how many times she has to ask those things. What im mostly worried for is this therapy will mess up my liver no matter what, i really dont want to mess around with my liver any more than it already is being. So, thats the last thing i need. I really truely dont think its TB... i just have a gut feeling. I have a gut feeling though its something blastoma or whatever. The CT scan found those module things they called them, and I think the doctor said they were "Calcified" .. haha wonderful....

alright
well ill find out the results monday-wednesday of next week.. i hate waiting.
Ill update when i know more...
on pain scale today though
probably a 3. not too bad at all to be honest.
Side hurts when i take a deeeeep breath.

Alright, have a good night.

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