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I just can’t help it with the bad puns. Oh well. It had to happen sooner or later. My hair started falling out this morning in the shower. I knew it was coming, but it was still fairly disturbing to run fingers through my hair and have clumps of it come out. Not sure how long it will take but I suspect I’ll be as bald as.. er, an eagle, soon.
Actually, I’ve just been wanting to use that pun for a while.
Last night, Monday 23rd December, I went to bed and started experiencing my usual coughing fit that I’ve been getting when going to bed. Only this time, it wouldn’t stop. Sarah got all concerned and insisted we go to the ER to get it checked out. I wasn’t a huge fan of this idea, it being 1am and all, and me not wanting to have yet more needles stuck in me, but I eventually grudgingly agreed to go.
We got there, explained the symptoms to the doctor, and he sent me off for a lung scan again (same as the one I had before). Oddly enough, there was no sign of the clot in my right lung, but there were 2 new clots in my left lung. Once again, they admitted me to the hospital.
At this point, I think my exact words were.. “Oh well, at least the year can’t get any worse than this”. Someone needs to hit me next time I say that.
After admitting me, a hematologist came by and talked to me and said that he was concerned that I was generating new clots. It seems having Factor V Leiden shouldn’t be enough to just cause this to happen randomly, so he wanted to do a cat scan. They made me drink these 2 jars of stuff with the consistency of wallpaper paste. I had a hard time keeping it down, but it was ok in the end.. The cat scan revealed.. swollen lymph nodes! Which means.. I probably have cancer (lymphoma). I’m out of the hospital now, but I’m going back on Friday when they’ll take a biopsy of one of my lymph nodes and find out for certain if this is the case. It seems likely, since this would also explain the sudden onslaught of clots.
On the plus side, this does mean that I have something which can be cured, and hopefully won’t have to spend the rest of my life on the blood thinning drugs. I guess we’ll see..