Dang! Hurry up Doc! Hurry up!
Well, I meet with my surgeon this month coming for a recap on some testing done on my heart. His nurse called me and said I am stable, and there is no need to come in and see him. But then I got a letter in the mail for me to go in and see him.
My issue was or is ?? a medialstinal mass inside of my heart. That type of mass, for my situation, is called a "pericardial cyst".
On record, as far as I can tell on the internet, through research, there are very few documented cases of a cyst like that resolving itself. The remedy is surgery only. I was told that it is or was 7cm x 13cm but considered as a spring water type cyst because the liquid inside of it is watery and not fiberous, structured, nor firm. In such a case, the cyst, in my case, is benign. Had it been the other way, it would have been malignant.
As the case was though, I finally got into the testing 6 months later than my yearly exam (third time for testing - aware of it for going on 4 years).
So I went in for the ultrasound and told the fellow (I later learned he had trained the gal who had performed the prior ultrasound. They both have been on board at the hospital for over 30 years.) about what I would like to see when he came across it. As it was, I told him what I was told. He looked for it - not a trace of it. He showed me the ultrasound video from the 18 months before, and there it was. I asked him the size of it. He said it was the size of a Hostess Twinkie inside of the pericadial sac that contains my heart. He shrugged but was obviously truely amazed.
I'll follow up with my surgeon to see if he knows something other than these observations I am pondering.
Miracles do happen, Huw. I'll be praying for you!
Originally posted by HuwR
