As you travel the roads by car, you'll encounter all kinds of conditions. Bumps being pretty common with a few detours thrown in for good measure. We've had a pretty good ride down the highway of life and of course we have bounced over many bumps and a detour now and then along the way but when Dory came back from getting the stitches removed yesterday she brought some information that may have knocked us clear off the road for awhile. The doctor who removed the stitches gave her the results of the test they ran on the lump.
Diagnosis: Skin, right anterior lower leg, excision: Malignant neoplasm consistent with epithelioid/granular cell angiosarcoma.
Comment: Immunohistichemical stains were preformed and the pattern supports the diagnosis of either epithelioid/granular cell angiosarcoma or malignant hemangioepithelioma.
We're going tomorrow for an appointment with a doctor at the Ellis Fischel Cancer Center in Columbia. The doctor said they will probably first, go back into the leg to see if they had gotten all of it, then some form of treatment would probably be necessary not excluding Chemotherapy. I guess we'll find out tomorrow.
Several years ago while in the hospital for another reason they found something on one of her kidneys that they thought looked cancerous and consequently remove the kidney. They discovered later that it wasn't a malignant growth but told us the kidney would have needed to be removed anyway.
A few other minor bumps of yesterday was our no-wake buoy broke loose and had to be saved. I've got to make another anchor and buy some cable for it. I cooled off in the lake and the board holding the ladder broke. My today list is putting a new board down and reinforcing it. Then this morning the septic tank is almost running over and will need to be pumped out immediately. For some reason these minor bumps have hardly caused a bounce. We can take care of each of these pretty easily.
"We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. Although we can never rivet our fortune so tight as to make it impregnable, we may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life that we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living."-Randolph Bourne
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