And so I do. It's name is Marla. Perhaps this is all because I said I didn't think Fight Club was my favorite movie anymore. Anyway, today I went to the Doctor to re-dress and apparently get results of the biopsy. I'll try my best to explain what's happening.
White piece of paper from Doctor says:
"Sections reveal a fragment of soft tissue containing a partially circumscribed nodule composed of oval to spindled cells admixed with collagen. Scattered multinucleated giant cells are present. There is abundant metaplastic bone formation. A few scattered mitotic figures are present within the proliferation. There is no significant atypia of the cells. Lymph node tissue is not identified. The histologic features are consistent with a giant cell tumor of soft tissue."
Whew! What the fuck does that all mean? Well, what I finally got out of it in short was, a giant cell tumor of low malignant potential. So I have a benign tumor. It's really rare and it usually happens inside bones. She said that she had a hard time finding results based on soft tissue. The Doctor went over each sentence with me. It was fairly confusing. One part I found interesting was the abundant metaplastic bone formation. She said it was kinda like people who have tumors in their stomach and they have hair and teeth. But it wasn't exactly that. This sentence just meant that it was actually forming little tiny bones I guess; or something like that. Pretty crazy. All the other sentences pretty much mean that no signs are pointing to cancer. Yay me! But there is of course that low potential. It's apparently extremely low. So, now I'll have to have surgery. When it will be, I'm not sure. I start getting insurance in December, I think. But if I find out that it won't cover this, even though it will be through my job, then I'll have the surgery sooner than later. I found out that depending on the policy and sometimes depending on how long you have not had insurance, they can deny coverage for surgery because of pre-existing conditions despite being insurance through a job. So there is a end in sight; just not sure when it'll be.
They pulled out the sutures and put a large piece of gauze on it and wrapped it up. Doc said it was doing really well. I don't go back in until next Tuesday. So I guess this is all a good sign.
On a job note, I've started to edit more and more commercials. Today I started from scratch a 2009 Acura TL spot. I get to choose the footage and how it goes together. It's great fun; at least for me.
-BJ
3 comments:
Lori actually called me to let me know the news. I'm totally glad she did as this is excellent.
Now here is to hoping you don't have a BS insurance mess to deal with to get rid of it.
OMG I didn't see the pictures until just now. ew.
Woah! So now will you sweat out of the little hole? :-)
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