Doctors are Awesome
You know something is afoot when your doctor shows up less than one second after the admitting nurse leaves and the first thing out of her mouth is, “You Don’t have a Tumor”.
On Tuesday I finally got to sit down with my primary care practitioner and explain all of my sinus weirdness. She opted to attack it from both sides, treating allergy related issues as well as possible surgical (Ear Nose and Throat) options.
A CT scan the following day showed her all kinds of wondrous things. More than she told me, to be honest. What actually happened is that I got a voicemail from her saying “It looks like you have cysts and a possible erosion in one of the maxillary sinuses.” I shot her an e-mail back thanking her for the quick reply and the referral to an ENT surgeon for the next step.
E-mails in the Kaiser system stay a part of your medical record, so said referred ENT surgeon thought I had been sent the radiologists entire report from the CT scan.
What the scan report said:
“Several maxillary sinus cysts, a sizeable infection in the concha, and an unknown mass in the sphenoidalas, possibly a tumor.”
It turns out it’s not an erosion, not an infection, and certainly not a fucking tumor. It’s a bizarre open cavity called a Howler Cell that will dissolve with the same antibiotic I’m taking for the infection.
All kinds of fun today.
Sidenotes: I got to help Marcel set up his Pro Tools rig AND Jess and I got to have Sushi date night.
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