Just before I went under for the surgery, the surgeon said to me, "I think it's a swollen lymph node. I thought it was a hernia at first, but now that you're here, I think I might have gotten it wrong." It is a swollen lymph node. The words "cat scratch fever" were mentioned, and a biopsy was taken. That word (biopsy) bothers me, just because of the ramifications of it. Yeah, Oreo likes to bite (softly) from time to time, but I didn't think her biting my hand would cause a lymph node in my crotch area to swell up.