Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Hi everyone. Today I want to talk about something I hope none of you have to encounter--the sentinal lymph node biopsy. This is a procedure done by surgeons in order to identify if high risk tumors have started to spread, or metastasize, in order to determine the prognosis. I ho...
I had a deep tumor removed my jawline down too my neck and also lip. My suergeon removed the lympth nodes. it was very very deep. I thought it was a small blackhead and kept trying too get something out of it. All though i never had acne i assumed i must be getting one. My point is this i waited 6 months before i went too the dr. and nearly lost my life not counting all the pain and suffering. If anyone ever has a little black spot get too the dr. immrdiately. It is vital. i am very scarred and the plastic suergon promised too do some cosmetic surgery the following Oct and it would be paid for because the cancer caused it. He did a skin graf amd sewed all this on. Well when he removed it and the stitches i felt sick. I asked him would it begin too look any better as time went along. I guess he thought i was critizing him which i was not and he literally started screaming at me you have cancer you have cancer. I began too sob and immediately left his office . He did not contact me too come back so i had too find another dr. That was the worst day of my life and i would rather have died than be humiliated the way i was.
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