First of all, apologies that comments and assurances of prayers have not been published; I'm afraid I have been feeling very off-colour and low for some time and had not the physical or mental energy to attend to the Blog. But, having promised an up-date after the bronchoscopy
review I think I should carry it through. The reviewing physician says the brushings
taken during the bronchoscopy did not reveal any cancer or bugs, but that they
were unable to see much because of the abscesses (I wasn't able to make much sense of that but her explanation continmued to be vague: "Its simply because the abscesses made viewing things difficult"). Further, she said the Chest X-ray I
had on the day of the review shows that I have not recovered as they expected,
so another CT scan is being ordered, the appointment for which I shall receive
through the post.
So it seems that I am still progressing towards
health but not there yet. This didn’t surprise me as the bronchoscopy was early
in the year and though the first two weeks post-procedure were OK, the third
week was one of constant haemoptysis (coughing up of blood -my family physician
was unperturbed by this but sent of a sputum sample to check for infection anyway, but no treatment was prescribed as antibiotics are so over-used). Indeed I have remained breathless and extremely low
in energy since my discharge from hospital in December, so considering that and
the haemoptysis the need for another CT of chest did not surprise me.
I shall try to do blog posts on topics other than
my health in the future, but I can’t say when or how often since my energy
levels are so very low. Please bear with me. Thank you.
