What Makes A Man?
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quite a few months ago, i started noticing a small lump right between my right ear and the tip of my lower jaw, that little place in between that doesn't really have a name, but basically where you'd think the hindge of your jaw was there. it was a somewhat solid feeling thing, kind of like a softened jelly beam... i'd say it's about the size of a lima bean now. well...for the first few months i didn't even give it any time of day but i was concerned. so starting last summer, when i finally told my folks i had this thing, they became concenrned and took me to their doctor here in houston who advised me to get it checked out back at school. so i did, but my doctor was pretty adamant that it wasn't anything serious and "most likely" just an inflammed lymph node or even a pimple of some sort. he wouldn't authorize any more further more expensive tests. hmmm...
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its an odd thing as it hurts sometimes in that kind of dull throbbing pain, usually when i'm tired or stressed though.... nothing to serious except once in a long while, it gives a sharp pain, like when you open your mouth too wide? haha. i'm not tooo concerned about it.
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last spring break, when i went back to taiwan for spring break, my parents ordered a fancy schmancy "PET" scan and i also happened to get a CT scan as well. everything seemed normal but there was obviously something there. there wasn't any indication that it was cancer so much more sure than not, it's not a tumor. but no one seems able to tell me excatly what it is. so that is where i am now? oh well.... i guess i've done what i can and can at least be assured more or less that its not cancer (like the time i thought i had testicular cancer and it just turned out that i had been knocked in the knads once to many..haha).
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but anyways, the point of this blog was to show the cool scans that i got. so that's what my brain looks like? yum... i see what hannibal was all about now. haha... just kidding.
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its an odd thing as it hurts sometimes in that kind of dull throbbing pain, usually when i'm tired or stressed though.... nothing to serious except once in a long while, it gives a sharp pain, like when you open your mouth too wide? haha. i'm not tooo concerned about it.
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last spring break, when i went back to taiwan for spring break, my parents ordered a fancy schmancy "PET" scan and i also happened to get a CT scan as well. everything seemed normal but there was obviously something there. there wasn't any indication that it was cancer so much more sure than not, it's not a tumor. but no one seems able to tell me excatly what it is. so that is where i am now? oh well.... i guess i've done what i can and can at least be assured more or less that its not cancer (like the time i thought i had testicular cancer and it just turned out that i had been knocked in the knads once to many..haha).
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but anyways, the point of this blog was to show the cool scans that i got. so that's what my brain looks like? yum... i see what hannibal was all about now. haha... just kidding.
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posted by faux chink @ 2:36 PM
1 Comments:
Oh geez Alex! My Dad's advice would be to push that lump back in and pretend it's not there! Haha...hope it's nothing. Maybe you should make a special trip to NY to have it checked out... ;)
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