April 2012
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Surgery #2 Update
Doing things a little backwards since I already updated about my tattoo and didn’t update about my surgery on the 20th. WHAT HAPPENED: On the 3rd of April when I had my pre-op appointment for having my teeth out, they found a tumor under my tongue. Small, about 1cm in size. Considering my first tumor was 3.5cm in size, this was very tiny. Not non-existent (which I’d prefer, tbh), but...
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Another lil update re: pathology stuffs
Saw my ENT today. HE looked over my pathology reports, peered into my mouth, then felt around, too. Apparently, the tumor is just a little smaller than a dime. He says it’s nothing like what I had going on before but, like all bad little things, it’s not allowed to nest in my mouth. SO? Surgery scheduled for Friday. It should take an hour or so. I’ll go home the same day. He...
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Surgery complete! Hyperbarics complete!...
To make this a bit more coherent, I have to go back to the week and a half before my surgery. One of the downfalls to having had the surgery I had before is that my neck is constantly tight; it always feels like I slept wrong. The upside to having a teenager? I can ask him to rub my neck when it gets to be a little too much for me. On the 20th of March, he said he felt a lump on the left side of...
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