Quick Update

J had a long day at the hospital getting CT scans, labs, and follow-up visit.  The long and short of it is that the lymphoma remains in remission.


I didn't work today so I accompanied him through his appointments.

It was interesting to sit in the waiting room in a hospital where I don't work, where none of the staff know I am a radiologist.  Very slow.  Nice people, but 30 minute wait before they finally brought out his contrast that he had to drink (their oral contrast is tastier than any place I have worked).

There was a delay with the scan itself, mainly because I was causing trouble:) J has had blood in his urine and we saw urology and had decided we would do a scan through the kidneys before giving contrast through his veins so we could get a clear picture of how many kidney stones, if any, were present (the kidneys clear contrast and can hide kidney stones).  But this is a children's hospital and it takes some convincing to do anything that causes more radiation exposure to a kid, and the order had not been placed properly to get the images we needed.  The radiologist the CT technologists worked with is a friend of mine, and he agreed with how I wanted to scan J once I explained the story, but it still added about 30 minutes before we were in agreement on a plan and had the corrected order (agreement was easy, took time to get a new order).

We went to Hem/Onc to see if we could get his blood drawn through the IV they had to place.  It was lunch time, but they took care of it right away.  Awesome.  No wait.

We had a quick lunch and then reviewed the CT scan with my friend and then went and had the appointment with the Nurse Practioner.  All is good with the lymphoma.  He has several very small kidneys stones.  The biggest is 2 mm.  Not much to do about those.  Just be prepared to treat symptoms if he ever passes the stones, but they should pass without help.

One more CT scan in 3 months and then we can start looking every 6 months instead of every 3 months.  Making progress!