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12-28-2024, 10:02 AM
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I AM STILL ALIVE AND SEMI-WELL
Good Saturday to you fine men, even you Corona.
Schmeggler did a good job protecting my privacy so here is a little info but not too much.
On 10/25 after driving my wife crazy with coughing I went to my PCP and he immediately had an X-ray done of my lungs.
I failed.
He scheduled me for a CAT which I also failed, right lung filled with fluid.
My Pulmonologist- happy I already had one- compared the CAT to 3 years prior and after a meeting with him he put me in Hartford Hospital the next day with a Thoracic surgeon who drilled through my back and removed 1.4 liters of nasty red fluid from my right lung. After a Cytology report it was decided that I needed more exploration and on 12/13, I spent 4 hours in the OR with about 15 people and they cut a hole through my right rib cage and stuck in a camera and a John Deere mini excavator to take biopsies.
They haven't given me the full skinny yet- I get reports to my phone that I can't understand- but it is not cancerous but what is causing it I don't yet know and I am not sure they know either.
I was released after two days in the hospital.
My breath is good.
More to learn in the next two weeks.
I have to say the experience has caused me to evaluate what I need to focus on. I have missed our entire hunting season and I will probably reduce my gun collection accordingly.
I have a great family that is close by complete with two new grand-daughters and that is the greatest pleasure.. Oliver keeps me company and Sharon has been a saint in tolerating me.
Stay tuned.
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12-28-2024, 10:13 AM
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Per Wikipedia: Schmeggler, A person named EdGAR, held in the highest esteem.
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