May 3, 2008
When I was first hospitalized, they did not know what the mass in my chest was. A biopsy could provide answers, but this created a problem: Whatever-it-Was was wrapped around my airway and my superior vena cava and right next to my aorta. It looked a little like this (in the image to the left, the whitish thing towards the top of the ribcage is the tumor, the whitish thing towards the bottom right is the heart, and the image on the right shows how the heart is compressed by the tumor):
When I was first hospitalized, they did not know what the mass in my chest was. A biopsy could provide answers, but this created a problem: Whatever-it-Was was wrapped around my airway and my superior vena cava and right next to my aorta. It looked a little like this (in the image to the left, the whitish thing towards the top of the ribcage is the tumor, the whitish thing towards the bottom right is the heart, and the image on the right shows how the heart is compressed by the tumor):