More like a war zone. Seriously. My stomach looks like a treasure map. Stitches, Doctor's markings, stretch marks, scabs. I'm a hot mess. Ever since New Year's Eve, when I first started to notice the abdominal swelling and the big "bulge" in my lower abdomen, I had been feeling discomfort and pain. I went from having a nice, flat tummy to having a lumpy, bumpy mess of a stomach.
Maybe I had just gained some weight or was retaining water. Everyday, I
would ask my husband to compare the lumps to the day before.Was one side larger ? I even took a bunch of pictures to try and see if I could tell the difference. Nothing was happening except that I was feeling more and more upset about how things were turning out.
After about a month and a half, we finally decided that we needed to go in and see what was going on. I wasn't really nervous about the surgery, but more nervous that I was just being vain and my "pumpkin" belly was just how it was going to be. The doc was only in for about 30 minutes. He pulled out a grapefruit-sized mass of scar tissue and infected tissue from my lower abdomen. It was like "Bam ! I told you so !" Who is excited that there was a mass removed ? This girl !
So, fast forward a week, and I noticed ANOTHER lump right (I know, right ?!?) under my rib on the same side where the last mass was removed. This one is smaller, feels like a golf ball. I called the office and the nurse told me to come in the next day. My doc wasn't there, so I saw another doc who wasn't sure what it was. He didn't think that it was muscular, but wasn't sure what it was. Seriously ! I thought that doctors knew everything !! I seem to get a lot of "I'm not sure what it is...." or "I don't know why this is happening....". I guess that I should have gone to medical school if you only have to know SOME things..... Ok. back to the topic.... He scheduled an ultrasound for the following week, a day after my next appointment with my regular doc. My doctor wasn't much more help. He wasn't sure either, so we went ahead with the ultrasound.
That was Wednesday and today is Sunday. I haven't heard from the office, but I guess no news is good news, right ? I was assuming that I would get the results at my appointment on Tuesday. So, until then, my golf ball and I will be waiting patiently for a diagnosis.
