Furious? I passed furious hours ago.

[gridlore]

They missed.

The biopsy team managed to not get any usable lymphatic tissue. This was a CT-guided procedure, remember, the doctor was working with imagery that was less than ten minutes old and they missed everything.

Which means we need to reschedule after the new year to do it again. Do I need to mention that when dealing with these kinds of issues, time is of the essence? The entire procedure was a frakking waste of time and effort.

Now I need to contact my primary care doctor and let him know that until this is resolved, I'm staying on disability.

I'm in pain, can't breathe, I'm constantly tired and they missed.

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[nightshade1972.livejournal.com]

I once went through a roughly similar situation. Several feet of shunt tubing (www.hydroassoc.org) had collapsed into my abdomen. I was wheeled into surgery less than fifteen minutes after they'd taken the CTs which initially showed the tubing coiled in my abdomen. I woke up several hours later to the Maternal Unit telling me that by the time they cut me open, "it wasn't where the CT showed it to be", they supposedly spent a whopping 45 mins looking for it, and when they couldn't find it they just installed the new shunt and sewed me up.

The excess tubing didn't get removed until 15 years later. My gyno opened me up to do my hysterectomy, saw the tubing float by amid the excess fluid in my belly, plucked out the tubing with forceps, and went on with the procedure.