If it isn't one thing...

I swear, there is always something going on around here concerning someone's health.  Today I took my son in for another hearing test.  He goes in tomorrow to talk to the head/neck specialist to find out what is wrong with his hearing.  While we were out, I got a phone call from my doctor saying they found something on my chest xray.  He said it was a prominent hilar shadow.  Yeah, I had to look that up.  Sometimes I think they like to use big words because they had to learn them in medical school and they figure they had to pay lots of money to learn those big words so they might as well use them.  Plus, it leaves us feeling just a little stupid.  There are several things that could cause one of those shadow thingies (I didn't go to medical school).  Cancer, Tuberculosis, fungal infection, sarcoidosis (another one I had to look up) which means diseased cells, or it could be nothing.  I just love how advanced medicine is these days.  Hey, you have something but it could be nothing. Let's scare you for no reason at all.  Isn't this fun?  Oh, and here's the bill for a zillion dollars just for the fun of it.  There, now don't you feel all better?  My husband thinks it has to be something because my doctor called me on his day off.  Surely he wouldn't have called if he didn't think it was anything.  We will see what the second set of xrays shows.