Disappointing to say the least.
I seem to have hit a Brick Wall on Day One from the Manchester Hospital.
I waited over an hour for my first appointment. Couple that with the hour early I was to make sure I found the place and got there in one piece (1 pm) and I was finally called in to see the Doctor at 3 pm. Seemed like a long time to me.
I had a 40 minute talk with the Doctor and he explained everything I had heard from the others in the Medical Team previously.
Then it transpired that my referring Doctor had omitted to pass on the information that I have Osteoporosis!
Now the whole process is to be held up. Osteoporosis doesn’t bar one from having a Transplant Operation, but it will depend on the severity of the disease that I have. Dr Leonard explained that after a Transplant Operation, the patient is given large amounts of Steroids. This will cause the bones to become weakened. If the Osteoporosis is too bad, then the extra weakening wouldn’t be a good thing and will surely disbar me from having a Transplant Operation.
I now have to go for a PET SCAN. This will give more detailed information than a CT Scan. In layman’s terms, it was explained to me that a CT Scan can see through tissue, but the Pet Scan will not see through but highlight the bones.
Image of a typical Positron Emission Tomography (PET) facility.
And so we wait! I have no idea how much of a delay this will be although I have been told that Pet Scans are done by a Private Company rather than a Hospital and they are relatively fast.
Talk about having the Bubble Burst! I was sooo disappointed, but I will update as soon as there’s any news.
