A few weeks ago I was shopping with my lovely wife and her Mother in Jackson, Ms. I bumped into a rack of clothes with my chest and it was painful, very sore. I got to feeling around why I was sore and discovered a lump on my right breast.
Surgery #1
A few days later I saw a doctor and then another and got scheduled to have surgery. Tomorrow morning, (Wednesday August 19th 2009), I will be having a procedure called “Subcutaneous Mastectomy”. Basically the tissue or whatever alien object that is in my breast is going to be removed. At first I thought cancer, but the doctor gave me the odds that men get breast cancer is 1 in 10,000. It happens, but apparently men get these lumps more often than most people think.
Surgery #2
Sunday morning I awoke from Devlink 2009 at the hotel in Nashville, TN and it felt like my eye had something on it. I thought it was a dirty contact lens or something like that but it didn’t go away. Monday it was worse and my eyes watered all day. By today (Tuesday) I had had enough, it wasn’t getting better. Eyes are something I don’t mess with. I went to the eye doctor and got an immediate referral into a specialist to look at my eye. It was fast too. At 4:15 EST I was in the office and by 4:30 I had already seen the doctor and was on my way to the specialist. Turns out I have a detached retina. What the…..! The doctor said he wanted to operate on my eye right then and there or the next day (Wednesday). I explained I was already going in for surgery the next morning so we scheduled it for Thursday.
That is TWO major surgeries in one week. What in the wide wide world of sports is going on!? At first I wasn’t going to say anything about my mastectomy but now that I have to have two surgeries, blogging is the only way I can peacefully cope with all of this. Too much for one person for one week.
Keep me in your prayers the next several days.
posted @ Tuesday, August 18, 2009 10:01 PM