Because my body can't just decide to be straightforward about everything... It just causes more and more confusion.
I was really hoping for some major answers today about the problem in my lung. Even that, however, is not straightforward enough. It's a good thing that the Pulmonologist I met with today is such a great doctor.
What I was hoping for today is that he could tell me WHAT it actually is and what we will or can do about it, if it is serious enough to perform surgery on, and what the risks going forward might be.
The good news is that he doesn't THINK it's anything serious. It may be just a random extra blood vessel in my lung that has likely been there since birth, with no real risk factors (which would be awesome). He does, however, have to go over the scan with a radiologist as well.
With that said, since I do have a murmur or flutter in my heart (basically I have a random extra heartbeat - which I have known about for years), he wants to send me for an ultrasound of my heart. IF the blood vessel problem is actually an AVM in my lung that is shunting to my heart, this could be creating the extra heartbeat and adds a ton of risk factors for stroke, heart attack, etc, and may, therefore, need to be removed.
So the plan, now, is to get this ultrasound done at the end of the month, he needs to speak with the radiologist, then I see him again in about a month to discuss.
Hopefully, then, we will have an answer. A straightforward one... If that's not too much to ask.
I did get some other bloodwork results today... But, of course, there's some debate on what it actually means.
So even getting some pretty straightforward answers didn't end up being straightforward today.
I have a headache.