'That was the last bruise I'll ever ignore.'
If you're anything like me, you might Google every single symptom you've ever experienced. Well, at the risk of increasing your health anxiety, sometimes little ailments actually mean big problems. And over on Quora, someone asked,"What was something small you went to the doctor for that"When I was 18 and at university, one of my friends asked if I could see OK, as he had noticed me squinting.
My Stanford Hematologist told me that I had arrived about two days from death. I had Acute Leukemia, and my blood was 78% blasts."While raising my arms to put up my hair, I noticed in the bathroom mirror that my armpits didn't look the same. One armpit was more indented than the other. It wasn't an enormous difference between the two armpits, but it was undeniably there. It didn't seem natural to me. I made a mental note to ask the doctor about it next time I saw her...
"...So we did, and she was given some antibiotics for her cold, and we went home. Two days later, I got a phone call from her doctor, who wanted us to come in ASAP. My daughter's hormones were way off. She had a testosterone level the same as a 25-year-old man and hardly any estrogen. She ordered a bunch of tests that included an MRI of her brain. An ultrasound of her uterus sent us to a specialist for hormones.
As the months passed, there was no real progress, except I started getting shooting, shock-like pains in the side of my face that would make me twitch. They were intense yet momentary. The rehab doctor decided it was time for MRIs of my head and neck. He said the scans came back with nothing significant and decided we would start a course of lidocaine injection therapy. I went and had the injections.
I was referred to a neurologist, who quickly said the tumor was too entangled and was beyond his scope of expertise. He referred me to another doctor who said the same thing and then referred me to the chief neurologist at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. He had concerns but took the case. We scheduled the surgery for a couple of months forward. He explained it was a slow-growing, non-malignant tumor and a slow approach would give me time to get my affairs in order.
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