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I am now a blackbelt!
RobbyMac:
Did this have anything to do with kicking a hole in your ceiling? :laugh2:
RayB:
Real black belt, or "I've been paying to go to this local dojo long enough that they graduated me to "black belt" black belt" ?
;-)
shmokes:
--- Quote from: pinballjim on February 28, 2010, 05:48:57 pm ---
--- Quote from: shmokes on February 27, 2010, 11:59:20 pm ---Probably you had a positive tuberculosis skin test. It's pretty common. They'll do a chest x-ray to make sure you don't have active TB.
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Only if you test positive twice, and by the time they're doing the chest x-ray, they're also prescribing nasty medications for the next year of your life (or threatening too).
Went through this a couple years ago, idiot nurse didn't know that chlorine would aggravate the test sites, etc etc.
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Yeah . . . that just seems the most likely reason that someone would get a chest x-ray for which they couldn't remember the reason. My money is on TB test. So I guess your second test was negative and you didn't have to take the suppression meds (6 months, not a year, I think). Why do you describe the meds as nasty? Do they have bad side effects?
Vanguard:
I have had a bazillion test run on my lungs. That's why I can't remember why it was being done. A number of years ago I had a chronic cough that wasn't producing anything. It seem to come from nowhere. My dad had been diagnosed with lung cancer and was a smoker. My doctors took extra precautions and ran a number of tests. One of the MRI's turned up "nodules". They are basically some sort of abnormal cluster of tissue. They were found in my liver, lungs and thyroid. Since then, I've had CT scans, MRI's, X-rays and ultrasounds to determine what they were. Now, I have an annual MRI and ultrasound to make sure none of them show any signs of growth. After 3+ years, none of them have changed so I've been given a clean bill of health. I can't recall if the chest xray was done because of the nodules or because of the original cough but it was in the last 3-4 years so it was due to either the cough or subsequent discovery of the nodules. I've never tested positive for TB.
My doctor said a large portion of the population has nodules but never know it because they never have any sort of test that discovers them. Once discovered, they need to be watched to rule out cancer.
shateredsoul:
So.. you didn't fall through your roof?
or break it fighting off a bear?
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