Dr. Davis knew the bronchoscopy might not get enough tissue to provide a definitive diagnosis, so she referred me to Mark K. Reames Sr., MD, FACS, who could perform a mediastinoscopy to get a better tissue sample if necessary. Mediastinoscopy is a surgery that allows doctors to view the middle of the chest cavity and to do minor surgery through very small incisions. It allows surgeons or pulmonary doctors to remove lymph nodes from between the lungs and to test them for cancer or infection.
Dr. Reames is the classic southern gentleman and I felt comfortable with him from the start. Although I was anxious to get going and get to a diagnosis, he counseled me that having a procedure before the full pathology was back on from the bronchoscopy might be rash.
We spoke for a short while and then parted ways. I was hoping that someone would call me and tell me this whole thing was a joke, but the reality was that I would see the fine Dr. Reames on Friday.
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Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Monday, September 27, 2010
27th - Surgeons & rock music
Special thanks today to our fantastic neighbor, Bridget Ruller, who came to our house at the crack of dawn to help with our 2 children (our daughter Peyton - 5 and our son Cooper - 3).
Stuart and I drove to Carolinas Medical Center at 6:30 AM for an 8 AM bronchoscopy with Dr. Davis and Jaspal Singh, MD, MHA. Dr. Singh is a very good surgeon, has a decent sense of humor and loves to work while listening to classic rock music.
The procedure itself was not bad at all from my point of view. It is done under mild to moderate sedation, which makes sense when someone is going to put a tube, camera and instrument set down your throat. Dr. Davis mentioned prior to the procedure that the sedative worked on the same receptors as red wine, which is another of my true loves. Suffice it to say that they used all the sedative they had on hand and still had to wrap up early when I started to wake up and 'get involved'. They did accomplish the point of the procedure however, which was to obtain some tissue from one of my lymph nodes to send for biopsy.
A picture of a surgeon (certainly not Dr. Singh) performing a bronchoscopy (that is not my nose).
Stuart and I drove to Carolinas Medical Center at 6:30 AM for an 8 AM bronchoscopy with Dr. Davis and Jaspal Singh, MD, MHA. Dr. Singh is a very good surgeon, has a decent sense of humor and loves to work while listening to classic rock music.
The procedure itself was not bad at all from my point of view. It is done under mild to moderate sedation, which makes sense when someone is going to put a tube, camera and instrument set down your throat. Dr. Davis mentioned prior to the procedure that the sedative worked on the same receptors as red wine, which is another of my true loves. Suffice it to say that they used all the sedative they had on hand and still had to wrap up early when I started to wake up and 'get involved'. They did accomplish the point of the procedure however, which was to obtain some tissue from one of my lymph nodes to send for biopsy.
A picture of a surgeon (certainly not Dr. Singh) performing a bronchoscopy (that is not my nose).
Friday, September 24, 2010
24th - Time for a biopsy
I went into see Dr. Kersten this morning for the formal report out of the CT results. Dr. Kersten walked my wife (Stuart) and me through the report and images, then told us that the next step was a biopsy, then a consultation with someone in Oncology (cancer doctor).
Later in the afternoon, we saw a pulmonologist named Juhayna K. Davis, MD for a consultation on the options available to obtain tissue for the biopsy. Dr. Davis was fantastic, despite the fact that I told her she needed to have the picture on her website changed for the better. I simply suggested that someone on the list of Charlotte's Top Doctors 2010 should have a glamour shot. Back to the point, Dr. Davis recommended that I opt for a less invasive procedure first. This procedure, called a bronchoscopy, is scheduled for 8 AM Monday morning.
Later in the afternoon, we saw a pulmonologist named Juhayna K. Davis, MD for a consultation on the options available to obtain tissue for the biopsy. Dr. Davis was fantastic, despite the fact that I told her she needed to have the picture on her website changed for the better. I simply suggested that someone on the list of Charlotte's Top Doctors 2010 should have a glamour shot. Back to the point, Dr. Davis recommended that I opt for a less invasive procedure first. This procedure, called a bronchoscopy, is scheduled for 8 AM Monday morning.
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