Piia Pauliina
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    June 10th, 2009

    I had a painful night.  Not only because of the actual pain, but also because it is so noisy in the ward.  I am in a ‘respiratory’ ward where they put all the people with chest problems in, which practically mean, these patients cough a lot!  Especially at night time.  And, whenever I get to fall asleep, the nursing staff comes over to check my ‘OBS’, i.e. temperature, blood pressure, heart rate etc.  Joy. 

    The CT-scan from yesterday showed there are ‘multiple enlarged lymph nodes in the posterior triangle’, that meaning in my lower part of my left neck.  Also, there is ‘a large soft tissue mass in the anterior mediastinum, 10.7 x 7.4 cm, and multiple ill-defined nodules in both lungs’.  There was also some swelling in the lymph nodes in my left axilla (armbit), and in the ‘para aortic region’.  

    The CT-scan demonstrated that the enlarged lymph nodes in my neck are compressing the distal jugular vein, which is the main vein bringing de-oxynated blood from the brain to the heart.  That may explain why felt so hot in my head, and felt the pulsating in my neck on Monday.  They are going to start me on blood thinning injections to prevent clotting.  The liver, spleen, pancreas, adrenal glands and both kidneys were fine though! 

    I am being operated today, as they want one of the lymph nodes of my neck for further investigations.  

    I still do not know if I have TB or cancer.  Obviously, I am voting for TB!  I am also waiting to see the TB nurses who should come around to do some tests on me.  Hopefully, sooner rather than later.  It is ever so boring here.  There is no internet, and it is too noisy to concentrate to read.  It is a lot of waiting around here.

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