More tests

Greetings, I hope you are doing well. This past week has been a trying time. We had to put our oldest husky down, he was pretty sick. Broke my heart needless to say. That is never easy. Every time we have to do that I say no more dogs. He was a sweet boy. He is sorely missed around the house, even the other dogs seem to be subdued, not as playful. On the medical front, I had a salivary gland biopsy done Tuesday night. I say night- it was about 1700 (5pm). The oral surgeon and his team stayed late at the office for me to get it done in hopes we would get the results back before I meet with the thoracic surgeon next week to schedule a lung biopsy date. This test it to help rule out or in, Sjogren's. They cut in the bottom of your front lip below the gumline to snatch 5 salivary glands out. Problem was, he couldn't find any. He said he had never seen anyone that didn't have any. He finally found 1 small one. He needed the 5 to get a good sample, so he apologized and continued to cut farther across my mouth and then had to even go deeper because he still could not find anything. He finally found 4 more that he needed. 4/5 were considered very small, only 1 was normal size. Not sure what this means. He did say in his experience those with Sjogren's had smaller ones, but never had he seen someone who just didn't have many at all! Kind of weird. Guess we'll find out what that means. I hope to have results by midweek before the meeting with the surgeon. Needless to say I am very sore and don't talk very well as I have many stitches in the bottom of my mouth. Fun, fun! NOT! At least I feel as if I am making progress, one test at a time. Still hoping it's all nothing. I have a lot of people praying for me I guess! I am glad, thank you if you are! I definitely feel carried by them. To God be the glory! I keep thinking what a testimony I must be building.