Looking at the pictures on Friday, I'd been thinking:
- I'm so unlucky MCL is going to be confirmed in my gut, ruining my "neck only" hopes
When an equally plausible interpretation (which I've now adopted) is
- I'm so lucky MCL was in my neck, or my gut MCL would only have been caught too late
Without the neck lump, I'd be doing nothing about the gut lump and yet I'm coming to the conclusion that the gut lump is the cause of a small, mysterious pain in my front right hip.
For about a month, maybe more, I have had local pain, and maybe only noticed once or twice a day, usually during my first steps out of bed. It feels like it is the size of a child's marble, and have always manifested in the same place (plus or minus within a volume no larger than handball).
Sometimes it feels like it is on the bone (right in the "scoop" of the hip's anterior superior illiac crest), sometimes it feels like a "I jogged too hard" muscle strain, and sometimes it feels like a stomach cramp. But it has been there, repeatedly, very localized for at least a month. Maybe two or even three. It is the kind you say to yourself "there's my hip thing" and think no more of it (and for me, particularly, because I've been focused on my neck)
My hypothesis is that the hip pain is a direct, singular symptom of the gut tumor and I'd be ignoring it if it were not for my neck lump.
The neck is just about the best possible--most easily noticed and seen--concentration of lymph tissue any of us have. Groin and armpits are second most obvious. Non-obvious is the gut. I'm very blessed that it was not "gut alone" (Though my 5 year re-colonoscopy is due in January 2018..that'd have given the tumor way too much time before being found)
There's no way I'd be blogging about a hip cramp, or asking your prayers.
Or recommending that you check your
- scheduled colonoscopy
- long-term and short-term disability insurance
- life insurance policy
based on a hip cramp alone
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