Ack! I feel like a crummy person! I totally left my last post saying I have a surgery coming up, but I've been busy and feeling cruddy and just way too busy to find time to post and explain the surgery! I am so sorry to leave everyone hanging like that - a few people have messaged me to ask about it, so some of y'all know, but here's the scoop for everyone else.
(Here's the abridged version)
It's really not a big deal at all! I have a little tumor on my right index finger. The hand doctor/surgeon can't figure out for the life of him what the heck it is, so they are gonna take the whole dang thing out on May 3rd. They are taking very wide margins to make sure they get it all, so they will be grafting skin from the side of my hand. They'll first check if it's cancer, and then they'll send the tumor all over the country to different pathologists to see if anyone knows what it is. Once diagnosed, they'll go from there! (Oh and the doc definitely doesn't think it has anything to do with my EDS or other health stuff)
Crazy, huh? It's pretty bizarre looking. Very irregular edges, more looks like several lumps smooshed together - that's how abnormal edged it is. Kinda looks like Africa facing the opposite direction. And more short and fat. Haha now I'm getting all abstract with my description. (Oh- it's up by the surface of the skin and visible - that's how I know all this). It's not red or anything. It's not a rash or skin blemish. It's definitely a mass underneath the skin and all that jazz. And it hurts! So I can't wait to get it out and done and over with!
The only little teeny bummer thing is that I'll have to be in an ugly cast for as little as 3 weeks or as many as 6. And then a splint after that for who knows how long. The cast will definitely be on for my senior prom, and possibly be on for my graduation ceremony. But whatevs, right? I can bedazzle it or something for prom! hah :P
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Speakin of which, I might as well mention, prom is coming up! I'm going to two, possibly three proms! (1) the Starlight Prom (2) my Senior Prom, and (possibly 3) a church prom. (The Starlight Prom is held by the Starlight Children's Foundation, and is just for "medically eligible" teens, with chronic or terminal illnesses.)
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There was another whole shabang I was going to have to explain... but my brainpower is just about run out, and I'm exhausted. I'll have to write again tomorrow, and explain what happened yesterday. I want really badly to get some advice from the dysautonomia/POTS community, but I'm just too exhausted all of a sudden and the brain fog is setting in :( bleh. So sorry to run out of energy so fast, and I didn't even get to talk about the happy stuff yet either...
I'll come back to chat tomorrow, and I promise to explain my crazy day/emergency doc appt/stuff that happened yesterday!
-Jessica <3
To my friends and family who are here following me on this crazy part of my life, thank you for the support <3
To my zebra friends - stay strong, we'll get through this together, one day at a time!
