Right. I mentioned that my abdominal lymph nodes are too difficult / risky to access. However, today the thorax CT scan report is back, showing more enlarged lymph nodes, which gives more options for biopsies, notably one that could be accessed via a bronchoscopy and one in an armpit, as well as the endoscopic one mentioned yesterday.
The armpit is easiest/safest and someone was available to do it today, so that's been done. However, the guy who did it said that it isn't much enlarged and he won't be surprised if it's not definitive. Results won't be available until next week. He said we should still press ahead with a biopsy one of the other nodes.
The endoscopist is off all week, it seems. Never get ill in August! So the new "earliest possible" date for that is a week today, but I imagine he'll come back from holiday to a whole heap of urgent requests and mine won't be top of the heap.
It might be possible to arrange a bronchoscopy this week, but my consultant (haematologist) has taken advice and the endoscopy is more likely to yield clear results than the bronchoscopy, as it's difficult to get a large enough sample size with the latter. So he wants to wait for that.
I asked if I can go anywhere else (Leeds, Sheffield, private) to get it done sooner but he said he doesn't know and can't arrange it. He will look in to the risks of a bronchoscopy versus the likelihood of a clear diagnosis from it.
In the meantime, the gynae consultant is taking my case to MDT on Thursday because of the suspicious-looking cervix from the first CT scan which might need further investigation.