It’s only Tuesday but it certainly doesn’t feel like the day after yesterday. I think it is closer to a week’s of time passing. On Monday early afternoon the nurse called and told me to check into the hospital immediately. I told her I had an appointment with the trust officer at 3:00 and I would check in after that was completed. She said I need to go immediately. So I did.
It turns out my sodium was “critically low.” A room was available without a delay and the work -ups began. Prep started for a lower abdomen CT scan which involved drinking two pints of liquid and dye right after I was told no more liquid for the day. It washes out the sodium. Then the prep began for the biopsy. Following that the spots on the liver and lung were confirmed as cancer. The rest of night was spent in an attempt to sleep in spite the constant visits of the “vampires” who insisted on depriving me of my bodily fluids. After a long morning’s wait I was finally transported to imaging for the biopsy. That confirmed that the liver “spots” were malignant. They have really good drugs down there, I will attest to that. Finally got some rest!
Now it was to determine the treatment. The liver was chosen as the organ of diagnosis because those spots probably received the malignant cells from the lung. Now the next process is develop the plan of treatment.
Now that I process this and have learned more about the dangers of low sodium I think that might have been the source of my complaints last autumn - shortness of breath after light activity, and a few other things that led to the full cardiac work-up I had last November?
Anyway, sodium was still very low and finally moved out of the critical range this afternoon. That is the greatest concern right now is the slow sodium. Every one of the symptoms I’ve experienced is one of those related to side effects of low sodium.
Now we wait prepared for another long period of evaluation and prescription.
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