Current Events > Lymphoma recurrence scare just in time for Christmas. Yay.

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Had an injection nearly 3 weeks ago. Area swelled and throbbed for a few days after. About a week and a half ago I felt a small lump on the same arm I had this swelling on.

Lump is in the little crease on the inside of my arm where the bicep and forearm meet.

Smaller than a pea, very moveable and slightly squishy. I assumed it was nothing. I had my cancer doctor's nurse look at it.

She didn't seem concerned at the time but passed it along to the doctor. Fair enough. I forget about it.

I get a call this morning letting me know that my oncologist called for an ultrasound of my arm later tonight. Now I'm fucking freaking out.

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ruh roh

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SH_expert44 posted...

ruh roh

Yeah

Not fun

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Shit man.

Hoping all goes well
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Hope it's nothing to be worried about.

Doom_Art posted...

Area swelled and throbbed for a few days after.

Hehe. I mean

damn that sucks

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Hoping for the best for you dude. That's rough right before the holidays

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The Great Muta 22 posted...

Hoping for the best for you dude. That's rough right before the holidays

Yeah it's throwing me into a real funk

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Best of luck, Tc!

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really sorry to hear this tc, hope it all works out ok. try and keep your head on straight as best you can

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Best of luck, dude

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Had the ultrasound

The technologist doing it saw what a sad pathetic piece of shit I was

And after the scan said something like "I really wouldn't lose sleep over that"

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I'm just shocked he talked about the scan or results at all

Those folks aren't supposed to do that

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metallica846 posted...

Don't future trip. The docs want to get in front of anything small when it comes to cancer...you know this.

I know. I'm just a very... analytical person. I need to understand and know everything about something.

The fact that there's this thing on my and I don't know what it is just bothers me and stresses me out.

Plus then there's the added worry of getting sick again, not being able to work, having to move out of my current place because I wouldn't be able to afford it anymore.

metallica846 posted...

The tech obviously shouldn't talk about shit like that but maybe he's seen enough to know. Stress kills!

Yeah I'll take the fact that he chose to be comforting as a good sign?

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Hopefully it's something generally harmless like a cyst and they'll just freeze it and you'll wake up tomorrow with no worries

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Good luck man. Whatever it is, as hard as it may be, don't stress and let it ruin your Holiday. Try your best to put it out your mind and enjoy time with friends and family. If its anything at all it sounds small, caught early...they probably just want to check it out to have all bases covered. its best to check it now than to let it linger, even if its nothing.

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Tyranthraxus posted...

Hopefully it's something generally harmless like a cyst and they'll just freeze it and you'll wake up tomorrow with no worries

Fingers crossed.

As long as it's not "Hey you have cancer again and need to come in to the hospital over the holidays"

It's weird though the thing feels not squishy but "fleshy". Like it's definitely solid but it feels like a bunch of goo balled up together. Plus is moves around pretty easily.

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Doom_Art posted...

It's weird though the thing feels not squishy but "fleshy". Like it's definitely solid but it feels like a bunch of goo balled up together. Plus is moves around pretty easily.

I got one of those (or something that sounds really similar) on my neck. its like this really small little bump that feels kinda hard under the skin when i rub it, but it also feels like if i could take it out and squeeze it it would give like a tide pod. I randomly showed up when i was a kid, maybe 7 or 8 and my mom got scared and took me to the Dr. It was nothing, they didn't even recommend anything to remove it. Now 20+ years later its still kinda there, much smaller than it was back then but i can still feel it. Its weird...i kinda wanna know what it is now lol.

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TheVipaGTS posted...

I got one of those (or something that sounds really similar) on my neck. its like this really small little bump that feels kinda hard under the skin when i rub it, but it also feels like if i could take it out and squeeze it it would give like a tide pod. I randomly showed up when i was a kid, maybe 7 or 8 and my mom got scared and took me to the Dr. It was nothing, they didn't even recommend anything to remove it. Now 20+ years later its still kinda there, much smaller than it was back then but i can still feel it. Its weird...i kinda wanna know what it is now lol.

"Feels like I could take it out and squeeze it" is a good way of putting it lol. I can actually pinch it up through the skin (it doesn't seem attached to anything) and squeeze it a bit lol.

It's almost like the same feeling you get when you get a big pimple or a boil, where you just feel like you can give it a nice pop.

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Interesting! Thank you!

I had brought it up with my family doctor and she suggested "scarring" as a possibility for it. Particularly since that vein was the one always getting stuck for blood draws and IVs when I was sick.

Though then of course that begs the question as to why I didn't notice until after this particular injection.

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TheVipaGTS posted...

Whatever it is, as hard as it may be, don't stress and let it ruin your Holid

i don't want his holiday's to be ruined. he's been through alot i think (too much for one lifetime).
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