lump

Last night, after I wrote in the blog, I was moving our big, heavy toaster oven and hit my forearm, just below the graft, on the corner of the cupboard.  Not a big deal.  The sort of thing, though, that in the old days -- back when I had a venous malformation on my arm -- might have caused a little lump. 

Guess what?  it caused a little lump!

 

Now what's alarming about this, of course, is that, back on August 1st when I had surgery to remove the tumor from my arm, the whole point of the surgery was to remove what was causing my arm to get these lumps. 

 

I understand that this new lump isn't cancer. So, it isn't an immediate threat to my well being.  HOWEVER, if the sarcoma was a "transformational" tumor, i.e., it was damaged tissue that wasn't cancer, but somewhere in the last five years became cancerous, then I would like to feel that all this treatment should not only eliminate the cancer, but it should eliminate the cause of the damaged tissue that turned into cancer.  That would mean eliminating the source of the problem.  so it wouldn't happen again. 

 

Eliminating what makes my skin go lump in the night.  Bill and I both just stared at this lump last night, trying to grasp that it had happened again.  And, sadly, both my internist and radiation oncologist said I needed to talk to the MD Anderson team.  Yet, for the first time that I've left them email and phone messages, they didn't call back.