You know you are getting old when....

Yesterday I had a tumor removed from my leg. Now it's not a serious thing but all surgery is a big deal when you are going through it. About 5 years ago I hit my leg on the corner of chest of drawers. If you know me, you know that I am a huge clutz and am either cutting myself, bruising myself or burning myself. It's kind of annoying but I am embracing it a bit. Anyway, after hitting my left upper thigh on this dresser, I had a huge bruise that went all the way down my leg and a small lump formed. The bruise lasted about 2 weeks but the lump never went away. I didn't think much of it; just thought it was scar tissue that would eventually go away. But it didn't. It started to grow. At first, it grew slowly and I didn't really even notice it. But over about a years time, it started to really stick out from my leg.

Fast forward 4 years and I had a very large lump on my thigh that you could actually see through my clothes. Since my dad is a veterinarian, I had him look at it and he said that he thought is was a lipoma; a benign tumor that develops from too much adipose tissue. Now no one really knows how they form but one theory is trauma to the area in which the tumor grows. I vividly remember the trauma of hitting my thigh so I know that is how it formed. Finally after much trepidation (I hate going to the doctor), I went to my GP and had her take a look. Hoping for "It's no big deal, just an easy office removal" response, she took one look at it and said, "That's really large, you need to go to the surgeon". Long story short, the surgeon said although a lipoma is usually benign, it is a cancer and needs to come out. So, after putting it off for another 3 months, yesterday was the day.

When the surgery was over, the doctor told Steve that the tumor was larger than expected and misshapen. All in all, he removed a tumor the length(not around just the length) of a large orange from my leg. GROSS!!! I had no idea that something like that could even be part of me. I should have never waited that long. I guess I am just in denial that I am getting older and that these types of things start happening.

So here I sit, on the couch, barely able to hobble around. I am also on pain meds, so I hope this post is even coherent :) I would post pics but that would just be a little over the top :)