Well here is the story I never thought I would have to tell... Early August I went to bed like normal, in the middle of the night I woke up hurting, I felt like an elephant found its resting spot. I was like hmm this isn’t normal but maybe if I turn over, go to the bathroom and try to go back asleep I’ll feel better in the morning. Well morning came and the pain hadn’t gone away. So I did the unthinkable (in my eyes, going to the dr was not ever on my list of things to do), I went to CVS minute clinic. Quick diagnosis - walking pneumonia, sweet some meds and I will feel better in the AM after some rest. Well a week went by and I felt worse, didn’t understand because the first 2 days I felt great, the cough even went away.
Well one week to the day my husband convinced me to go back to the dr. with a lot of push back I finally went and this is where it all starts....
Well here I am walking into Urgent Care, not thinking anything of it. I really thought the pneumonia just got worse. I was seen by this amazing Dr. who checked me and said I don’t hear pneumonia but I can tell you don’t feel well. She asked if she could take some X-Rays and I agreed because I just wanted to feel better.
After doing the X-Ray I went back to the room and waited. I was kinda confused on why it was taking so long but the DR. came back to my room with a white face. I knew something wasn’t good but little did I know that I would be where I am now..
She begins to tell me she see’s a mass on my “lung”, after another test we learned it was actually my esophagus, (to be continued). She orders a CT scan and sends me to a lung specialist.
I follow DR orders and go and have the CT scan done and meet the lung DR. 2 days later. He confirms I have a mass/tumor on my esophagus not my lungs. It was a bit of relief, because it sounded like I only had an infection. But in order to see what was causing the tumor, I had to have an endoscopy.
Well I went and had that done and waited on my results. Walked back into my DR’s office waiting to hear you have .... this infection here’s some meds. Nope not today.
I find out now that the test showed no infection but couldn’t determine if I had lymphoma... so the next step is now surgery.. ugh.. I didn’t want to hear that and broke down into tears in his office. I felt awful for my DR. because I’m sure he wasn’t expecting that. He offered me a tissue and scheduled my surgery with the best surgeon in GA. That I was very thankful for.