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And thanks, but I'm fine, really. Just had a good dinner, and nobody will be poking me again until tomorrow

Except perhaps the totally unexpected cat that just climbed on my lap...

for today's and tomorrow's proddings.

Let's hope it's not something so odd that you're kidnapped by mad s for research purposes!

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On the plus side, I could have a disease named after me!

Better off to bed now, though, they want me early tomorrow

It would be great to have a disease named after you, as long as it's exotic, and not too painful or dangerous.

So far this is sounding promising. , and thoughts go with you.

Mal. on the Lumpadectomy! Hope it becomes an outcome.. And you get a outcome than me!

Best wishes...

MMF

hope everything is fine

Hoping everything will work out fine

I think its clearly a case of Badgeritis... but I would say that

Well, still no date for the actual surgery...

They 'd the lump today with a big evil sucky machine And now I have to wait nearly a week for test results

I blame 2legs

I would, he creates this sort of thing just to relieve his boredom

Weird sucky machine! ARGH!

I see.

Yeah, I had to go back to bed for a few hours to sleep that one off

brr, I'd rather do a day's work!

that sucky maching thing... sucks

Unlike a vacuum cleaner made by Microsquish, their only product that wouldn't

As they're growing fast, they're unlikely to be malignant, I would say.

They may be cysts which would possibly just disappear on their own if left untouched.

Still - you do wonder why they are there and what actually caused them to appear in the first place, don't you? See if they can give you any answers to that one. (Don't just accept the explanation that you're intrinsically !!!

I once had a lump in my neck removed - it was very near the jugular. The doctor just gouged it out "en passant" practically - all very laid back. Nothing came of it.

I remember that when I went back a few days later to have the stitches out, I had to wait a while for the doctor to come in. As I had my 3-year-old with me at the time (he's now 24), I sat on the floor to play with him while we were waiting. The came in and promptly sat on the floor with us while he took the stitches out.

or what?

Wow, wish I had a nice doctor like that

what a doc!

And it doesn't look like I'll be de-lumped soon. They did the blood work and looked at the biopsy results and scans, etc... Their conclusion: it's probably not a tumour, but could be anything else, really, especially three or four diseases for all of which they found the antibodies

Their solution: ignore it and hope it goes away, I'm to come back in a month so they can take another look.

And I had to wait around 3 1/2 hours for them to tell me that Had to see three different doctors, and the conversation was always the same:

: *looks at file* Ah, I see. Has anything changed.
: Yes, the lumps all hurt now, especially if you touch them.
: Like this? *poke*
: YES!
: I see. *poke* Well, I have no idea why it does that.

oooh mal!

bloody quacks!