Little Bit of News from Biopsy People

The nurse just called me back inside the surgical procedure room to tell me what is going on.

[SEE BREAKING NEWS INTERRUPTION BELOW]

Bill is dressed in a surgical gown, all his clothes in one of those plastic "Patient Belonging" bags. He seems cheered up, now that things are moving.

If they determine they can even DO the procedure, it will be at least 2 to 3 hours before I can see him again. So I'll be in the waiting room till about 2 pm, meaning I can update if there's any news.

However, it turns out that the lymph node is in a very dangerous spot, wedged between his two main arteries from his heart. One wrong stab, he told me, and it's big trouble, because a main artery would start bleeding into his abdomen.

MMMM. Drinking red tomato juice, are you? Not NOW, I bet. :)

Anyway, he will be on wildly wonderful drugs, one of which is Vercet, which is the funnest drug you can get in a hospital. He is happy about that. He has a built-in port on his chest, so they run all his tubes through that.

If they decide they can't risk the stab, because of the arteries, then they send him home right away, and then we'd be looking at other options later, not sure what they are.

If they DO complete the stab, via a very long needle inserted through his back (surprised!), they will give the contents to a pathologist who is standing there. Pathologist said it is no more than 2 days before we get results.

Once the procedure is either (a) over; or (b) given up on, the nice nurse Melissa will come out and tell me all about it, then he will be in recovery. So I'll post what she says, then.

[INTERRUPTION NEWS BREAK: Something is suddenly wrong with his blood pressure. Too high. Melissa just came out to tell me they aren't sure what they will do now and asked me about his normal blood pressure and his medications. Then she just left. END OF NEWS BREAK]

I asked if there's any chance he could have to stay over tonight. Melissa said to us, "We'll think positively on that, won't we, Bill. If the Dr. didn't say you had to, you shouldn't have to unless something unexpected happens."

So off he went with Melissa, and I'm back in the waiting room. Wishing an angel would appear with water, cause I'm so thirsty, but I have too much stuff with me to schlep anywhere. Ha. I'm sure there are about a million people who would love to have THAT as their only problem!

Till later. Thank you for caring and following. Love love love to you!