I’m sorry for the lapse in postings over the last five days. I went to BNH Hospital in Bangkok and thought I would have a lot of time to catch up on work but that turned out to be not true. Now I’m out of the hospital and at the Maryknoll office in Bangkok. I return to Phnom Penh tomorrow.
In my check-up x-ray three weeks ago, the doctor spotted something in my lungs that couldn’t be identified. I had no illness or symptoms and he decided to do a bronchoscopy, putting a camera down my throat so he could actually see what was in the lungs. Here a nurse is inserting a port into my arm to be used for blood work, anesthesia, and other procedures.
Finally it was time for the gurney ride to the operating room.
The doctor decided to do the full program so he performed the bronchoscopy with the camera down in my lungs and then took a biopsy while there and then finally washed out my lungs with water to be used to create a culture to determine just what it is they would see. Here I am just after coming out of the recovery room.
