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| Tuesday, 4 September 2007 |
| Armpit |
It's a stupid word. Its connotations are neither sexy, like breast, or purely functional, like cervix. It's still filled with childhood connections ("smelly armpit"). Except that it's also filled with a lump that seems to be the size of a smallish walnut, that dispite my patient waiting doesn't seem to be going away. I looked it up on the internet - because that's what I *do* - and there were three possibilities. I think we can discount "ingrowing hair" now. Which leaves me with something that appears to involve the lymph system - I don't even know what the lymph system is - or cancer. Interestingly, lymphatic cancer is what my mother just had.
Anyway, excuse me for writing this if there is actually anyone reading this. One of the advantages of having a blog that no one actually reads is that one can write this and it doesn't matter.
Then of course we have to add my terror of the French medical system. I can manage "I have a lump in my armpit, it is the size of a small walnut", despite its obviously close relationship to several lines from Monty Python. But - but - I'm scared, and when I don't even know where the doctor's office is, it's easier to ignore it than put in the work to find out something I really might not want to know.Labels: personal |
| posted @ 23:16 |
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| 3 Comments: |
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Eek. I hope you get good news.
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I hope all is well. But in such circumstances, a resonable knowledge of French is clearly required.
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hi, I've only just found your blog and notice that you are still up and posting. I hope that everything is well. I have a history of breast cancer in my family, which means that the gynie in St Brieuc is constantly sending me off to have intimate parts of me squished at uncomfortable angles and photographed. So far so good. My vocabulary has enlarged to the point that I can say ouch in multiple languages...But do go and check yourself out, if even I can overcome my fear of stirrups,then so can you!
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Eek. I hope you get good news.