garmanma Posted June 4, 2009 Report Share Posted June 4, 2009 Haven't really been around all that much. The last few weeks have been busy with my wifeAfter a few weeks of tests, it was decided that she was to go in and have a lump in her lung removedShe had it ever since she can remember, but in the last two years it started to increase in size.The surgeon was hesitant and tried to talk her out of it, or at least do just a biopsy.Thank God my wife is stubborn and insisted it be removedThe surgeon came into recover, after the operation and assured us it wasn't cancerous and he sent it to the lab to be sureThree days later we get a call from an Infectous Diseases doctor wanting to see herIt turns out the lump was a spore. The doctor pulled up a map and showed us the region where other people have had this and smack dab in the center of the map was my wife's family's hometown.Some 40 years ago there was a problem with contaminated water runoff from the coal mines and farm pastures and it was only in the Ohio River ValleyThe spore increased in size because it was getting ready to burst. There's no telling what would have happened if it didThe surgeon said ,in hindsight, it was a good thing that he didn't puncture it with just a biopsy Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubba Bob Posted June 4, 2009 Report Share Posted June 4, 2009 Glad to have a happy ending here! Any chances of anymore compliactions from the poisoning? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sultan_emerr Posted June 5, 2009 Report Share Posted June 5, 2009 Sure glad to hear that things turned out well, my friend. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
blim Posted June 5, 2009 Report Share Posted June 5, 2009 Oh wow, Mark!! Sure am glad you have a stubborn wife who insists on having her way! And hoping for a speedy recoveryLiz Quote Link to post Share on other sites
garmanma Posted June 5, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 5, 2009 She has 2 pills she has to take for a month and get some bloodwork once a week for a month to make sure it's all goneOther than that she's OK and starting to move around the house moreThank you for your concerns Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Pete_C Posted June 5, 2009 Report Share Posted June 5, 2009 Good luck; sounds like you dodged the bullet. I think that spore related infections are more common in the brain than the lungs. Of course I know someone whose mother died of a fungal spore infection in her lungs while on vacation in Mexico. They said something similar that it probably had been there for years and the plane flight caused it to burst. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JDoors Posted June 5, 2009 Report Share Posted June 5, 2009 Thank God her instincts won out over the medical profession's lackadaisical response. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JSKY Posted June 5, 2009 Report Share Posted June 5, 2009 WOW!!! Glad she is stubborn! Hope all goes well from now on out. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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