Gang, I had a scare over the summer, where I had a muscle spasm in my chest, right next to my sternum. I was laying on the couch at the time, and I rocketed off the couch as the spasm hit. Before my feet hit the floor, the spasm was over. I talked to my primary care doc, and he suggested a C/T scan of my upper chest. The scan came back, and what it showed was that I had several swollen lymph nodes in my upper chest, around my esophagus and in my armpits. I had a few stomach bugs this spring/summer, as well as a bacterial upper respitory infection, and bronchitis (which is vital, as I found out), so I wasn't surprised to have swollen lymph nodes.
My primary then scheduled a full torso C/T scan, which found the same swollen lymph nodes. So, after consulting an oncologist, I decided to have an entire lymph node removed from my right armpit. That surgery was last Tuesday. I get the results of the biopsy tomorrow, maybe even late today. It could be 1) nothing; 2) a 'low-grade' lymphoma, 3) full-blown lymphoma. I'm pretty sure that it's the first one, but Tom Petty was right about things like this: The waiting is the hardest part. If anyone could spare a few prayers, I'd be grateful.