Harry is better, now it's my turn.
When I had the Pulmonary Embolism (getting on for 7 yrs ago now) it left me with some excutiating pain in my left shoulder between the shoulder blade and the spine. At the time I couldn't breathe for pain, it was agonizing with every intake of breath, and for some weeks afterwards this remained the case until after a while it dulled to the type of pain I am constantly aware of, nagging and annoying, but something I can deal with and is basically only aggravated by breathing in very deeply or the occasional bout of flu or a bad cold. One Dr suggested the pain is probably due to 'scar tissue' in my left lung, the one which was damaged by the PE.
Toward the end of last week the pain flared up again and I thought it was probably heralding the onset of a cold seeing as the boys have been a bit sniffly, but the pain didn't get any better over the weekend and by Monday I thought I should perhaps get it checked out so went to the Doc. She sent me yesterday for a CT Scan.... very weird (nasty) experience involving being set up with an IV full of 'contrast' which makes you feel all warm and weird, and lying on a bed which moves in and out of a scanning tunnel thing.
They didn't call back yesterday so I'm assuming (and hoping) there is nothing immediately life threatening going on, but I am going to have to go back and see the Doc to figure out what is going on.
Posted by katie at October 19, 2005 11:30 AM