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Several swollen lymph nodes at base of my heart

I went for my follow up CT scan for a small node on my lung.  I haven't felt well for a few years nothing major just bone aches chronic cough night sweats,  ect. Anyway I ask the technician if it'll tell if I have pneumonia as I've been sicker then normal for a month. So I get home there's a message my doctor wants to see me that day.  I call back and tell them I can't as I didn't have transportation, so just have her call me the secretary says well you have pneumonia, I said well good that's better then the spot growing so call me in some antibiotics and I'll get them picked up when I can. She said well the doctor still wants to go over your report.  I said well have her call me.  Secretary calls back and said the doctor finds it important enough to see you today she is coming to your house for a housecall.  I thought how bazaar I never hear of doctors making house calls.  She comes and goes over the report.  Says I have several nodules in my lower lung, I said well that would be in response to the pneumonia wouldn't it? she says yes but I also have several at the base of my heart some are 3.2x1.4 cm and then I have a larger cluster of enlarged nodes in the space between my heart in lungs in the chest cavity and several on the outside plane of my right lung. Also a calcified spot on the tip of my Kidney. She and the radiologist did the report together over the phone and said I need to have a complete scan all the way down through my pelvis with dye contrast to find out if there are more masses or nodules.  For some reason this is not sinking in that this could be serious, I'm still thinking it's my lymph system fighting because I haven't felt up to par for so long. The report says due to size and location of all the nodes and masses he doesn't feel the nodes are a reaction to the pnemonia. Should I take this serious, I'm just relieved I just have pneumonia that can be fixed and the nodule they were looking at for followup hadn't grown. My doctor says it can be lymphoma. How long does it take to diagnose that. she is having me go in this friday for blood test which I'm not sure what they are for and the scan on Monday. Couldn't that give me a false positive since I will only have just finished my antibiotics and my lymph nodes could still be swollen from the pneumonia?
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How's it going, have you heard anything new?
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1081992 tn?1389903637
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hi, if you're getting a CBC today, I'd ask for a copy right then and there. The machine can print a copy for you.

CBC = Complete Blood Count

among other things, that can tell if the number of blood cells is low
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