I am sitting at home, trying not to think about tomorrow. Tomorrow when they are going to shove a extremely long and scary needle deep into my lungs...apparently, while I am AWAKE! The nurse called to tell me how to prepare for the procedure. She started explaining how I have to arrive at such and such a time, then they will start an IV, then she told me how I would be taken to the CT lab and while I am awake they will numb up the area, nick the skin with a scalpel...I stopped her. Wait, numb the area? Why? I will be under general anesthetic, why do I need numbing? Nope, wrong. No general. I need to be awake to take deep breaths, to be repositioned to go into the CT machine, etc.
After I expressed my anxiety about this info, she told me that they would give me Versaid, an amnesia effect type of drug, and something for anxiety to make me less anxious...but I will still be awake.
The lung, much like the outer layer of skin, has nerve endings, and they can't numb the lung, so I will feel the puncture...and some pressure. I will definitely need that anxiety stuff!
So I will be blogging after I get home tomorrow. If you are reading this when I post this to my blog, please keep me in your thoughts at 12:00 noon tomorrow.
Deep breaths. This will all work out.
HELP!
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