Watched but unrelated!?

I went to the doctor today at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital for a consultation with Dr. Jennifer Hill and further tests. They weighed me and measured my height. After waiting in various waiting rooms I was sent to have my breath capacity measured. Before I was sent off to out patient Phlebotomy I sat and waited for a bit before I was ushered into a room for the consultation. Dr. Hill asked me lots of the normal background questions about my family health history, smoking habits (I still don’t smoke although I did consider taking up an occasional pipe after the JRR Tolkin’s Lord of the Rings series but have decided I can go without smoking a few more years bearing in mind the present circumstances.) Dr. Hill’s manner was helpful. She said although they did find something in my left lung about half way down and toward the outer edge (which could be maybe between marble and walnut size I’m guessing), I didn’t have another x-ray today. She had about three or four sheets of x-rays like CT scan results each with about 9 or 12 smaller cross-sections of my abdomen. Each of the different slides like a traditional x-ray film was on a large lighted wall box for viewing x-rays. One slide showed things that were picked up because of the injection they had given me during the CT scan. But it was the more normal slide which showed the abnormal spot. The doctor said that since it wasn’t spiky or really very large it could be digital anomaly, scar tissue from some past illness, or a tumour. She said a group of doctors had met to look at it together and had decided it merited more scans and watching but they were pretty sure it wasn’t related to the paralysed vocal cord. But they are not happy with it either so they have advised that I come back in April for another CT scan and also to see better what the results of the blood and urine tests are. So I am going back to the ENT doctor (Tuesday, 21/02/06 9:00 AM) to see what the next step is going to be. It may be that he does some sort of cutting and looking operation. He said something like that before sending me to the chest specialist. I’m personally quite sure that my voice problem isn’t the old losing my voice problem. Since this summer I have had a very chronic voice fatigue which never seems to really get much better. Both times they did the laryngoscope (a procedure called direct laryngoscopy in which an instrument called a laryngoscope is inserted through the nose or mouth.) They saw that one of the vocal cords was not moving at all (paralysed). So now we are this quest to find out why it is not working and what to expect in the future and how to live with it in the present.