Sandy, I'm really glad the polyps were non-cancerous.  Situations like this make me so mad and scare me to pieces.  We put our bodies/lives in doctors' hands.  And then some tech "doesn't read it correctly"!!  They better keep that malpractice insurance paid up!

Speaking of doctors, I got a health scare earlier in the week.  Doctor said I have furniture disease; my chest is falling into my drawers.

Y'all are always interesting.  I can only imagine what went thru Richard's unique brain.  Glad some of you helped ease his mind as to what FU stood for.  It's old SWBell shorthand.  We were forced to use certain abbreviations for words & I still use many of them tda.  Anyway, brought a smile to my face & that's not easy with a fat lip.

Told Don I had a few questions I wanted Dr to answer.  I needed to know what caused the excessive bleeding & all this blood pooling in my lower face. When I asked Dr he sat dwn on his stool & slid over to his w/his laptop.   1st words out of his mouth, " I have some good news & some bad news." For goodness sake, give me the good news 1st!!  Here's what the Doc said . . .

I haven't actually gotten the pathological rpt yet, but I did t/w the Pathologist myself this mrng & he said the 2 polyps removed were not cancerous. However these were xxxxxxx polyps & they can turn cancerous, so the good news is these weren't.

 Want to take a wild guess as to which words I picked up on in the Doc's statement & why I don't remember the type & name of the polyps?!!  That's why I used Xs.  He then sd the bad news is that my Ins (UHC) didn't approve pmt!!!  I said WAIT, Let's go bk to the polyps!!  WHAT!!??  Doc sd that whomever read CT scan failed to see the polyps & only reported blocked sinus cavities.  Not only did he clean & wash out infection in all 8 sinus cavities, he also removed 2 large polyps, one on ea side. That's why I had so much bleeding.  He then removed the splints from inside my nose & told me I shd be feeling much better in another wk, but it will probably take another 2-3 after that for all the swelling to go away.  He gently patted me on the arm & sd not to worry abt the Ins Co, as he will handle them.  When Don & I left & all the way home we were still wondering how tda was the first time either of us had ever heard the word "polyps". He asked, "How could we have missed it?"  I politely told him that I was in so much pain & full of drugs on Tue & Wed, how cd I have remembered anything?  What was his excuse!  Doc will send me the rpt as soon as he gets it.

My lesson from this is I will never ever take a Dr.s assurance of a surgery being a "simple procedure" as a given!  If the person reading the CT scan had read the info correctly, the Dr wd hve known B4 the surgery of the add'l problems, but Doc found out during surgery.  But you know what, I'm so Thankful for those words, "non-cancerous" that nothing else matters.  I'm gng to get better ea day & I'm sure my family & I are gng to have some great laughs abt this on TNKGVN.  Especially when they see how bad my face will still look!!!