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I talked with Murray earlier. He's in good spirits. He said his doctors came by this morning and saw him but they did not have the biopsy report back yet. It should be back today. They did say that one of his vocal cords was paralyzed. They suspect from all the coughing he's been doing. They also said they think that he might get his voice back since the raspiness varied at times. They told him that during the test yesterday that they were able to see the tumor in his lung and was able to get good samples from it to biopsy and send for analysis. The results will be in shortly. * Murray wanted all to know * that when he was admitted on Tues, he told the hospital staff that he needed to keep his medications at his bedside, medicate himself with his PD meds and why. He said that he was prepaired to teach them with documentation if it was necessary. [He also had his infamous 3 ring binder with him concerning his medical information and the Parkie hospitalization info he may need as reference for anesthesia, meds contraindicated for PD and the like.] He went on to describe that all the hospital staff required for him to keep his own medications was that he needed to let the hospital pharmacist see and check the bottles and to put a hospital label on them. They returned them in a couple of hours and that was all there was to it. Meeting with his doctors is the only appointment scheduled for him today. Based on todays discussion the decision will be made to do the Thoracoscopy tomorrow or not. Hopefully the fluid in his lungs will be drained then and his lung will be reinflated [probably under vaccum] with a inserted chest tube. THORACOSCOPY A procedure in which the inside of the chest cavity is viewed or "explored" with a thoracoscope. A thoracoscope is an endoscopic instrument, which is usually composed of either two channels. In a two-channel thoracoscope, one channel is a fiber optic light channel that allows the surgeon to bring light into the chest cavity. The other channel is an optic system that allows the surgeon to look down the scope into the chest cavity, and to introduce instruments that can be used to obtain pieces of abnormal tissue (biopsies). http://www.cts.usc.edu/lpg-thoracoscopy-thethoracoscopyprocedure.html Please continue to keep this sweet man in your prayers and send him all the positive vibes you can spare ! Hugs, Gail ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn