We are in the middle of an unusual weather event, heavy snow, which has affected a large part of New Zealand. We have had about 40 cm of snow over the past two days at our house, this is a one in 20 year event here. Travel on the roads has been difficult, but I made it in to work this morning and to the hospital this afternoon.
This afternoon I attended my scheduled appointment at the respiratory clinic. My lung functions were tested with a Body Plethysmography, this was quite a demanding process and took about 30 minutes, results are all normal. In addition my blood was tested for dissolved gases, this proved to be a bit of a problem. The clinician needed to take arterial blood from my wrist, in order to get the best results. She had to have 3 attempts to get a good result from an artery, both wrists were punctured, in the finish we had to resort to local anesthetic as the pain was getting to both me and the clinician.
Following the lung function tests I went to the cardio-thoracic ward for preadmission tests and to give my formal consent to the lung resection. This all took quite a bit of time, but we are now all go for the surgery.
I need to be at the hospital at 7:15 AM this coming Friday, 19th August. First procedure, due at 8:30 AM is to insert a hook wire into my lung to identify the precise location of my tumour. Then shortly after I will have the video assisted surgery to remove the tumour. All going well I will be in hospital for one to two days, then home.
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