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Thread ID: 139014	2015-02-23 22:58:00	Husbands Lung Saga	pctek (84)	PC World Chat

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1394996	2015-02-23 22:58:00	Husband saw the lung doc at Waitakere this morning. At last - a doctor with a brain. She thinks - like I did - that he has had the germs for ages. She thinks they messed about too much initially - same as I thought. She has no idea how his GP came up with lung cancer. I told her because it was his pet theory in the first place and with Graham losing weight - but that's because he doesn't eat. Plus he thought his right side pain was liver - but it isn't, it's diaphragm. She has put him on 2 different antibiotics now - for 6 weeks. That's not 6 weeks then forget it, that's 6 weeks and see how that goes. They'll check the fluid (ick- thats the poke a hole in his side thing) at some point but not yet, to see what germs are there and if still there etc...and she said they may change the antibiotics later too. Because - like I kept saying - that germ is a nasty persistent and resistant little thing.... Anyway he's happy, last night he said he felt like he had an appointment with the firing squad. Thought they'd want to start chopping him open. So did I actually. But no, this one is sensible, so he's home, getting his pills and much happier. And they might actually finally get rid of the bloody germ.	pctek (84)
1394997	2015-02-23 23:20:00	At last - a doctor with a brain. They do exist. Let's hope hers is an accurate diagnosis. :)	WalOne (4202)
1394998	2015-02-24 02:15:00	Makes you wonder when 27 years ago some twit diagnosed me with Lupus and wanted to put me on pills that cause blindness and liver damage. Here I am, still Lupus free.... And then son gets diagnosed with asthma after getting chest pain and fainting at work. Doctor #2 found clots in his leg, which in hindsight meant he'd had a pulmonary embolism. But never mind, he didn't die and had warfarin for a while. And husband gets 1)Don't know 2)Psuedomonas 3)Bronchiectasis 4)Heart attack - must do a bypass immediately 5)Lung cancer and now we're back to the germ. Doesn't inspire confidence. And she isn't deciding yet, she says it's been long term, messed with for too long and only in a short term way which can aggravate things and she will be checking properly for all sorts of germs later. he has finally had CT scans too. So at least she got A into G instead of taking guesses and moving onto the next thing on the list.	pctek (84)
1394999	2015-02-24 07:59:00	Are your fingernails starting to grow back yet?	R2x1 (4628)
1395000	2015-02-24 22:12:00	There is plenty of it about, I was diagnosed with Angina, fortunately good doc looked into various other bits of body and found emphysema. I have noticed that specialist tend to think of you as a liver or whatever their speciality is and not as a whole.	Cicero (40)
1395001	2015-02-25 01:06:00	...found emphysema. I have noticed that specialist tend to think of you as a liver or whatever their speciality is and not as a whole. Bummer....sympathies. Yeah...they do....kind of like when they have a hammer, every problem is a nail. Well he has to have the stab a hole in his side test next week and examine fluids. But I asked and they will sedate him. Yuk. More joy.	pctek (84)
1395002	2015-02-25 02:44:00	"At last - a doctor with a brain." There's not a great many of them around, most can handle day to day stuff, but the bad ones don't like to acknowledge, or know when they are out of their depth. The next step up is the ones who recognise they are uncertain and will push the patient up the chain. The third type are the ones who are on top of their game, and get it right over 90 per cent of the time. These people are "GOLD". At a higher level, the same applies to specialists, they often think they are infallable.( some approach it, and some others do fall well short.) I have seen a lot of doctors and specialists in the last 15 years or so, as my other half is on ACC and was not diagnosed properly from the start, it took nearly ten years of fighting to get the right specialist to do a ten minute diagnosis, to start treating her properly.	PPp (9511)
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