got to go home for a longer time today. i could leave the hospital at noon and come back at midnight. by sunday i'll be discharged...for the time being.
so....my splenic biopsy story. ooof i didn't know how painful it would be. I should have known when the specialist at the private hospital asked the medical officer to accompany me that day. I was expecting another lung biopsy kind of thing. How wrong I was! The specialist put a needle in my spleen, and he said he would first aspirate whatever that was in the spleen nodule. It was pus...don't know where it came from. After two aspirates, he decided to do a spleen tissue biopsy, but by the time, i was already experiencing severe pain in that area. So he decided against the tissue biopsy..thank God.
Days after that, i had fever and abdominal discomfort. Air entry on the left lung was reduced..turned out there was some fluid as a side effect of the splenic aspiration. The thing that really irked me was, before the splenic aspiration, i was fine! i hadn't had a fever in days, my breathing and lung condition improved. so i had to stay in the hospital for a few more days. everyday, a physiotherapist would come and help me with deep breathing exercises to improve the condition on the left lung.
Then, last monday and tuesday, i felt pain in my right hip, down to the lower leg. Doctors didn't know what was going on, because from the x-ray, it seemed that the hip joint was OK. I took all sorts of painkillers, which didn't help. Alas, on tuesday night, mum came with some Yokoyoko and rubbed it in the aching areas. Problem solved.
Had my third CT Scan yesterday. Doctor came today and told me that the lesions in my lungs have gotten smaller, which is a good indication. I guess I could go for stem cell transplant soon, then. Doc plans to discharge me on Sunday, and indicated that I should come back for checkup at the clinic in two weeks time.
So that's the story so far..I will get to be at home for a while. Yay!!
Ciao.
