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oakenguyWell, there's this lump. My doctor found it during the check-up, had me come back later to see if it was still there. It was. He sent me to a specialist who pressed her fingertips into my neck, asked me to tell her when it felt uncomfortable (um, hello...), confirmed that there was, yes, a lump, and that I should come back for a biopsy so they can take a sample of it and see what it is.
I've just summed up three months of medical back-and-forth in two sentences! Isn't that nifty?
The biopsy's the first week of April; they'll be giving me a local and taking some tissue samples. Which sounds really simple and basic, in a way that 'they'll be injecting novocaine into my neck, and then putting several needles in after the novocaine's made that patch of skin numb' doesn't. So I always try to refer to it in the basic, simple way.
On the bright side, right after she described the biopsy I swear I heard my prostate sigh with relief. So things could always be worse.
The Doc (again with the simple, reassuring language; note the pattern?) assures me that the odds are good that it's a benign cyst, with only a 5-10% chance of cancer. And that even if an operation has to be done, it's uncommon for there to be any harm to the vocal chords. Which is, um, not exactly the 1 in 1000 I'd been hoping for, but still not bad odds.
So now you know everything I do. And hey, it's the weekend!
I've just summed up three months of medical back-and-forth in two sentences! Isn't that nifty?
The biopsy's the first week of April; they'll be giving me a local and taking some tissue samples. Which sounds really simple and basic, in a way that 'they'll be injecting novocaine into my neck, and then putting several needles in after the novocaine's made that patch of skin numb' doesn't. So I always try to refer to it in the basic, simple way.
On the bright side, right after she described the biopsy I swear I heard my prostate sigh with relief. So things could always be worse.
The Doc (again with the simple, reassuring language; note the pattern?) assures me that the odds are good that it's a benign cyst, with only a 5-10% chance of cancer. And that even if an operation has to be done, it's uncommon for there to be any harm to the vocal chords. Which is, um, not exactly the 1 in 1000 I'd been hoping for, but still not bad odds.
So now you know everything I do. And hey, it's the weekend!
