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Definitively Benign
Aug. 22nd, 2003 09:57 amAs any number of folk know, a couple of weeks ago now, I went will-nilly to the emergency room at Deaconess-Nashoba Hospital with side and abdominal pain that turned out to be a kidney stone.
Before I left the hospital that day, the ER doctor tossed off, "Oh, by the way, you should have your doctor schedule another ultrasound so that we can look at a cyst that we spotted on your liver."
Now, when the ER doc knows that your doc is on vacation and has no urgency to his suggestion, has not rushed you back in for a second look, it DOES take a bit of the sting out of it. But still...
Today I went back in for the second ultrasound, and of course receved a second small fright - just a small one, and VERY short in length.
"You may put your shirt back on," said the ultrasound tech, "but I want to check with the doctor to let him take a look if he wants." And he did.
But it was all just to make sure that the conclusions was acurate. "Definitively benign." This means that there will be no invasive procedure, no biopsy, no explorations further. YAY!
Was I worried? Not really. I had been assured by my friend that the most likely condition from what I discribed was something that, as she put it,is Latin for "So what?!" And my own research confirmed it. None-the-less, it WAS a relief to be told the same thing by the doctor.
And how are you today, Mr. Chumley?
Before I left the hospital that day, the ER doctor tossed off, "Oh, by the way, you should have your doctor schedule another ultrasound so that we can look at a cyst that we spotted on your liver."
Now, when the ER doc knows that your doc is on vacation and has no urgency to his suggestion, has not rushed you back in for a second look, it DOES take a bit of the sting out of it. But still...
Today I went back in for the second ultrasound, and of course receved a second small fright - just a small one, and VERY short in length.
"You may put your shirt back on," said the ultrasound tech, "but I want to check with the doctor to let him take a look if he wants." And he did.
But it was all just to make sure that the conclusions was acurate. "Definitively benign." This means that there will be no invasive procedure, no biopsy, no explorations further. YAY!
Was I worried? Not really. I had been assured by my friend that the most likely condition from what I discribed was something that, as she put it,is Latin for "So what?!" And my own research confirmed it. None-the-less, it WAS a relief to be told the same thing by the doctor.
And how are you today, Mr. Chumley?
