RE: Good News-SHARON DENNY LOTTIE AND BOBBIE

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Thank you for your replies! I will let you all know how it turns out. I had

really never heard of them biopsying (sp?) a rash. I asked my mom about it (she

is a retired RN) and she didnt remember it either. Then I kinda panicked when I

read that a " fishnet " type rash can herold cancer of one of the major organs,

not panicked anymore, but we will see. I am kinda weird like that, something

small sends me into a panic and I totally ignore the big stuff!! Example.......

about four months before I was dx'ed with CML I got into an argument with my

oldest son (he was about 22) It was really stupid what we were arguing about,

anyway I lived in a townhouse and followed him to the door giving him hell all

the way, when we got to the door there was a steep stairway behind me, as he

opened the door I dont remember what in the world he said but it made me furious

and I reached out and slapped him on the cheek. BIG mistake! Now at that time I

weighed a little over 300 lbs. and he weighed about 250. He spun around sooo

fast with his arms folded across his chest and came up under my arms, direct hit

in the chest which lifted me about five feet off the ground, NO JOKE, I went

straight up and then back and came down with my left shoulder hitting my then 11

yr old daughter (thank God or it would have been worse!) and my left hip hit

sqaurely on the not very padded step. My son after I looked up and said you

broke my hip and started crying. My daughter Nikki was hysterical and I was

trying to calm her, but I could not stand up for about 20 minutes. I called Dale

at work and he told me to call an ambulance (he could not leave work as he was

the only manager there) If he or I had known how serious it was (which neither

of us realized until I was dx'ed with CML a few months later) He would have

called the main manager and flew home. I was happy for him not to come though

cause he wanted to kill Josh. I was in such bad pain and felt like I was sitting

on a small volley ball. I eventually made it up the stairs and to bed. By the

next morning it felt like I was laying on a basketball! I got up and looked in

the mirror I had a BLACK bruise that ran from the outside of my hip all the way

to my (excuse me I don't know the medical term) crack and it was cresent shaped!

I was soooo sore and for two weeks I could tell it was bleeding into the area,

it looked like a giant blood blister. I NEVER did go to the dr. for it. After I

was dx'ed I realized it must have nicked the femoral or pelvic artery and had

been slowly bleeding me to death before it finally clotted. To this day I have a

dent in my left cheek and if you put your fingertips in it you can feel the

muscle seperate. He may have even fractured my pelvis I don't know. But the

point is......SEE WHAT I MEAN!!! I probably would have ended up in surgery had I

gone to the hospital but I blew it off. But just let me get a little sniffle and

I act like I am gonna die......lol......even one of my employers had commented

on it. Anyway ever since I was dx'ed with CML I have become paranoid and am

always afraid that I have a differant kind of cancer. Like the little lump on my

eyebrow I was afraid it was melonoma when I have bloody stools I just knooow I

have colon cancer....lol.....anyway thank you guys for your responses and I will

let you know what is " actually " wrong when I find out....lol....

hugs,

Katy

From: onthewtr@...

Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:46:37 -0700

Subject: RE: [ ] Good News

Katy,

I don't know why they biopsy rash but it is done a lot. They can tell a lot

from a biopsy. Like what kind of rash it is. Or what is causing it. Should

be interesting to hear what he comes back with.

Let us know

Sharon T

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Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 3:44 PM

Subject: [ ] Good News

Hey everybody, well I had my " squeezogram " ! and Ultrasound and it was

negative!! I apparently just have really thick bands of tissue there.

Anyway that was the good news. I went to a skin doctor yesterday

because I have this pesky lil rash up the front of my right leg that

is making me crazy, while I was there I asked him about this lil tiny

lump in my eyebrow. Well he biopsied both places, he is ruling out BCC

or basil cell carcinoma on my eyebrow but wouldnt tell me what he was

looking or with the rash......sooooo now I can't go swimming for two

weeks I went sunday and felt sooo good afterward and was going to

go yesterday after my appointment...oooh well. Anyway I will get the

results back in two weeks. By the way, anybody know why he would

biopsy the rash??

hugs,

Katy