Thoughts From The Biopsy Gurney

So I'm lying on my stomach on a gurney in a hallway in radiology at Sansome post biopsy. They're going to keep me here for an hour or so to make sure my lung doesn't continue to leak air into my chest. A little is normal and ok but if my lung continues to leak they'll have to put some sort of plug in. Sean the x-ray tech is kind cute and I get to see him in an hour again. So I'm just hanging out blogging to keep from thinking too much with my little monkey mind.

I was VERY nervous going into this procedure. I tried my breathing and meditation but I just couldn't get the fear of a biopsy needle going into my lung out of my mind. The doc's assistant was very nice and Doctor Daughters helped calm me down. He was very clear without going into too much detail about what he was going to do and that helped. It was a bit uncomfortable but all in all it didn't hurt and I simple kept my eyes closed and imagined an enso and focused on my breath. It was definately an odd feeling to have a numb chest and a needle protruding from my chest for 20 minutes and there was some weird clicking sounds each time he took a sample. There were 4 samples in all. I also had to hold my breath when they took the each sample to keep air from escaping and they had a pathologist come in to look at the samples before they took the biopsy needle out. There was dotor / pathologist mumbling that I couldn't make out.

As I lay here like Superman on a gurney writing all this on my Blackberry I am realizing that the next issue lies in what the biopsy is made of. What's next? Abscess? Pneumonia? Cancer? Alien chest burster? I was told it will take at least two days before we'll know the results. Be still my monkey mind.