Well, lump ISN'T a cyst. But we don't know what it IS. I was fine until the doc got her tape measure out and started mapping lump's dimensions..then I burst into tears. I think it was because up until then I had thought that it was all a figment of my imagination, and seeing her manipulate it made it real somehow. The official opinion so far is that I have a 4cm by 4cm mass in my left breast. She was very gentle, and said that we should get a diagnostic mammogram and an ultraso...
My left boob has been touched and looked at and discussed by more people than I care to think about in the last couple of days...and there's more of the same in store today. Today I get to go lay it on a little plate and have it squished almost flat so the radiologist can take an X-ray....a boob in a vice, if you will. Then I'll go down the hallway and have someone else I don't know squirt some cold jelly on it and scan it with the ultrasound gadget. Everyone will take measurements and d...
Well, the opinions are in. It's not cancer. I have fybrocystic breast disease. My body's breast tissue likes to clump together and make knots, lumps bumps etc, etc. There isn't any treatment for it, it's just one of those things you live with. The lump I have now, however, would probably be better off being removed. I have an appointment with a surgeon on March 3rd to discuss and schedule to take lump out and biopsy it. Sometimes there can be microscopic changes that, although they'...
I had a flashback of sorts this evening. For those of you who don't know, let me lay down a little background for you: I had a bad vehicle accident last October. The ass end of my jeep slid out on some black ice on the interstate and I ended up facing oncoming traffic and got nailed head-on by an 18 wheeler. I broke some ribs, my collarbone, shoulderblade, dislocated my shoulders, tore tendons in my neck, cut up my knees, broke my knuckle on my right hand, and bruised my heart and lungs....
Bet that title got your attention, didn't it?! I AM getting a hard body...toned, and taught. I've been trying to get back into shape after last year's accident...and it hasn't been easy. My activities have been restricted because of the damage I did to my skeletal structure and musculature. Today, for the first time in ages, I swam over 1/2 a mile. This morning, before I swam, I did a complete yoga workout and managed a right angled handstand as well as 'crow' (it's handstand b...
I'm sick. I think I have the flu. I hurt all over, I have a fever, a headache, my nose alternates between being plugged up and running like a faucet, my throat is sore.....I'm just miserable. I tried to go swim this morning (I've been bitten by the swimming bug again after spending 2 hours in the water with the kids Sunday afternoon) and managed to struggle through 10 laps before giving up because my ears hurt and my lungs felt like they were on fire. Because I'm sick, I'm also tired....
Well, as Karma predicted, my MRI was normal. I have to keep a symptom diary for a week and then go back. What I really want to do, and what I think I will do, is go in if I happen to have a 'bad' day between now and then. By bad, I mean really fatigued, shaky, numb, weak all the crap I've been dealing with for the past months/years. I want my doc to see my when I'm like that rather than on a 'good' day....I can try and describe my symptoms to him all I want to, but I think him seeing i...
I had an MRI done this morning. I had my head clamped on either side, then they put a cage kinda device over my face, with a little mirror in front of my eyes, angled so I could see out of the machine and hopefully not feel quite so claustraphobic. They gave me some headphones to wear so I could listen to the radio, then slid me into this tube and started the machine. Being in there was odd..it makes this rhythmic throbbing, humming noise, much like what a maternal heatbeat must sound li...
I had the much-awaited appointment with my surgeon today. It was supposed to be last week, but the storm put paid to that idea. Long story short, he didn't like the idea of leaving lump in there to grow and perhaps invite some friends and relatives over for a party. It has been growing, it wasn't just my imagination. It's only a tiny bit bigger than when I discovered it, but it's bigger nonetheless. So, next week lump will be removed and biopsied to see exactly what it consists of. ...
It's official. My concerns and doubts about Jake's behaviour have been right...he has ADD. He starts taking Concerta tomorrow morning. The doc started him out at the lowest dose, 18 mg, with the option to increase if necessary. He doesn't have to take it on the weekends if we don't want him to, nor during school holidays, but she said that we should give it to him every day for a couple of weeks before we think about giving him a weekend break. We talked about the possibi...
Today is the day my boy Jake has an appointment with the pediatrician and psychologist to review his ADD score results. I saw the questionnaire that his teacher completed; she scored him really high too. So, we go talk to the professionals this afternoon and see what they want to do. I've been given some hope by my friend Rob (Hi, Rob!!) who's son AJ also has ADD and recently started taking Concerta. Rob says it's like night and day....but also says that he's been given the option...
I'm taking my youngest in to get tested for ADD. Jake's had issues with listening and following directions for ages. He rarely finishes anything he starts, he forgets things constantly, his room and his desk at school are disaster areas, he's disruptive.....sometimes when I talk to him I can almost see the words bouncing right off him. He doesn't listen, he doesn't absorb. We had parent/teacher conferences last week, and his teacher brought up his lack of self-disc...
Link A recent study at Harvard University concludes that sleep-deprived interns make more mistakes than those who have had adequate rest. Well, you don't say??!!!!! Did we really nead a Harvard study to tell us that?!! I find it amusing that truck drivers are legally limited to the number of hours they can drive for in order to ensure they get enough sleep....but we're letting physicans, fledgling physicians at that, work on people when they're sleep deprived. Makes not much...
I saw a wonderful image this morning. A picture of a little boy, holding a stethescope to the chest of an elderly man, listening. Listening to the beat of his father's heart within that elderly man's chest. The boys father had been killed, and his organs had been donated. The man who got his heart had been told earlier the day of the transplant that unless a heart became available soon he wouldn't be strong enough to withstand the surgery. Miraculously, later that day, h...
And it's not nice. I had my gallbladder removed 5 years ago because I had stones. I've had the same kind of pain that I had when I was trying to pass a stone since saturday...it's ranged from pretty uncomfortable to downright painful. I stuck it out, but this morning gave in and went to see my doc. Apparently, the greasy burger I ate on Saturday afternoon, combined with the big glass of warm malted milk I drank that night, added to the dark-meat chicken I had...