Better than ever.

Welcome to hopefully the last medical update post on the Bill-og. After a mere seven weeks after open heart surgery, exactly one month after a second heart surgery, and only 20 days after having approximately five litres of Pleural fluid drained from my chest, I have been declared fit to return to duty by the […]

Letting My Fluid Flag Fly

Looks like my luck continues to run as it has thus far. I received a call this afternoon advising that the Pleural Fluid has in fact returned. The treatment course that I am now on is oral steroids over the next week hoping this resolves the excess fluid build-up. I really hope this corrects the […]

Result: Two Quarts High

The Thoracentesis went nearly without a hitch on Friday. I surprised all the physicians with the sheer volume of liquid drained out of this busted thorax. Comparative Photograph Only. This is cherry syrup not pleural fluid.* Two quarts or so later I felt like I was having a poltergeist squeeze my heart as invisible compadres […]