Tipsy but for a reason
OK. I am, at this very moment, a bit tipsy. Sorry
if this post wanders or there are glaring spelling / grammatical errors. There
is a reason for my drunkenness. Last week on Wednesday, my massage therapist
found a lump on my back. "There is a lump here and it is very palpable. You
should see your doctor." She said.
I called my doctor and made an appointment the very
next morning. Of course, it was a week before I could get in... that would be
today. I went to the doctor this afternoon and he said that it is a benign
lipoma - a lump of fat basically. I was a bit
freaked out about this lump on my back. I see a massage therapist every two
weeks - wellness is better than cure in my book. So this lump had suddenly
become palpable.
All of this is a bit more intense if you understand a bit of background - my Uncle Charles died of cancer at a fairly old age (70s). My brother, Jeff, who is 7 years older than me is living with cancer. He has had incurable cancer for 3 years now. It is scary. Every four months he goes in for a CAT scan to see if his drugs are still working. We hold our breath and wait for results. As he put it, "I feel like I'm on the Coliseum floor waiting for thumbs up or thumbs down".
So this lump on my back was scary. I quickly searched the web and learned that most lumps are benign - cysts, lipoma's, other things.
This does shine light on part of the medical system that often gets overlooked - IMHO. Doctors are not there just to cure disease but to explain and provide peace-of-mind. If I could have seen my doctor last Thursday, I would have slept a hell of lot better during the past week... and I would have been drunk last Thursday instead.
- jjp
All of this is a bit more intense if you understand a bit of background - my Uncle Charles died of cancer at a fairly old age (70s). My brother, Jeff, who is 7 years older than me is living with cancer. He has had incurable cancer for 3 years now. It is scary. Every four months he goes in for a CAT scan to see if his drugs are still working. We hold our breath and wait for results. As he put it, "I feel like I'm on the Coliseum floor waiting for thumbs up or thumbs down".
So this lump on my back was scary. I quickly searched the web and learned that most lumps are benign - cysts, lipoma's, other things.
This does shine light on part of the medical system that often gets overlooked - IMHO. Doctors are not there just to cure disease but to explain and provide peace-of-mind. If I could have seen my doctor last Thursday, I would have slept a hell of lot better during the past week... and I would have been drunk last Thursday instead.
- jjp
Posted: Wed - December 8, 2004 at 07:19 PM
