Biopsy Blues

[Whamo]

I check-in the hospital at 9AM tomorrow for a 10:30AM procedure.  After that's over I have to stay at the hospital another four hours.  I'll have to bring a good book.

[Deanne]

I hope it goes well. I hate biopsies! If it's like mine were, they won't let you leave until you pee twice and since they won't allow you out of bed to do it ...

This time tomorrow it'll be done with.

[Whamo]

   My biopsy was awful.  It started out great.  I fasted.  I was hungry, but I had a ride to the nice new hospital.  Inside the hospital the nurses were friends of
my wife.  Then I waited two hours for the procedure to start.  They'd told me I'd be out cold, but they were afraid of my sleep apnea so they kept me awake.  The pain was unbearable.  They said I had restless legs.  They cut into both sides of my throat.  They complained my veins were too small.  After four hours they gave up.  I felt like I'd been butchered for nothing.  At least my phosphorus numbers were in the normal range for the first time in six months.  Whew!

[Deanne]

That sounds horrendous! When you said "biopsy" I assumed kidney. What were they trying to biopsy? Since they couldn't do it, what's happens next?

  to them!

[kristina]

Hello Whamo, I feel very sorry what you had to go through and I wonder what it was all about?
Did the medics inform you why and for what reason this procedure had to be done on you?
... And if they "had to give up" anyway, was it really so important to try it in the first place (whatever it was)?
I do hope you have recovered a little and I send you my kind regards from Kristina.