Northeast Gardening: Yikes. . . I'm really scared. , 0 by carrielamont

carrielamont wrote:
OK. Some of you know I totalled my car a week or two ago. I think it is completely understandable - I was preoccupied, thinking about my tumor.

The urologist called it a polyp. (My kind of MS comes with check-ups by urologists.) I thought polyps were like, maybe extra lumps of skin, or pimples, or freckles or moles? He later added that they usually were "technically malignant" but that this was no big deal we found it early we'll just snip it out and then it will be gone, tra la la. I still didn't think it was a big deal, came home and looked up "polyp" and found out that it means small tumor.

Then I found out that snipping it out is not just an office procedure with local anesthetic, it's general, which scares me.

A week or so later I had a different, unrelated bladder function test, and the technician cheerily sang "oh look, there's your tumor!" I'm gritting my teeth and thinking 'it's a bleeping polyp! It's not a tumor!' (Shades of Kindergarten Cop?) On the way home from that test is when the fire hydrant jumped in front of the car.

So now I can barely think, I can't sleep, I'm scared and lonely. Everything bad seems to happen in February.

x, Carrie