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Stiches Are Out!!!

Jeremy — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 19:13:05 +0000

Well, the stiches are out.

Lab tests came back as benign!!!

DIAGNOSIS:

Skin, scalp, excisional biopsy: ulcerated hemangioma (pyogenic granuloma)

Leaving to see the doc.

Jeremy — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 18:15:32 +0000

I’m about to leave (in 30 minutes or so) to go see the doctor, hopefully, for the last time for this growth thing.

If he thinks it has healed enough they will remove the stiches…I think it has, so they’ll probably come out.

He should also tell me the results of the lab tests they did on it. If he writes down the name of what that growth was I’ll post it…

I’ll post again after the doctor’s visit, but maybe not right after…Going to get home from doctors about the same time the Cubs throw their first pitch!!!

GO CUBBIES

Doctor Visit

Jeremy — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 22:12:10 +0000

I will be visiting the doctor again this week on Thursday at 2pm.

He will remove the stiches from my head and also tell me the results of the tests that were done on the growth they cut off.

I will post right after the doctor’s visit on Thursday.

-Jeremy Jefferson

Post-Surgery Update

Jeremy — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 06:34:19 +0000

Well, my head is hurting less and less by the hour really. I can not wash my hair till monday, so it’s starting to get a little oily. Tomorrow should be the last day I have to have it bandaged, but that will depend on if we find any fluids on the bandage when I take it off in the morning.

Sometime this week I will be going back to the doctor to have the stiches removed. Have not made that appointment yet.

That’s all for now…Oh, and I love this new desktop (see last post). It’s really fast and really cool.

-Jeremy Jefferson

Surgery Complete

Jeremy — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 20:57:43 +0000

The surgery is over, thank God, and I’m home and recovering now. I got to the hospital at 6am and had the surgery almost right at 8. Next thing I remember it was 9:15. I was out of the hospital around 10:30.
They gave me some medicine to calm me down and then took me to the operating room where they gassed me.

They put a tube down my throut so it’s kind of sore right now.

The numbing medicine has worn off and my head is hurting right now, but I just took some medicine.

That’s all for now.

Surgery Today…

Jeremy — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 10:44:06 +0000

I’m about to leave for surgery to remove the thing on my head. If you do not know what I’m talking about, you need to read farther back in my blog.

I will give update afterwards.

-Jeremy Jefferson

Surgery Scheduled

Jeremy — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 18:16:26 +0000

I got the call from the doctor’s office this morning around 9am….

My surgery will be on Feb. 24 at 8am. I have to be at the hospital at 6am and can’t eat or drink after 12am.

Oh, and my blood test results were good…..Which means that thing on my head is not cancer.

Doctor Visit

Jeremy — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 19:27:36 +0000

Well, I went to the doctor today to see what they think they should do.

The doctor said it is going to bleed a lot when they remove it so they can not do it at his office. So it’s going to be done at the hospital…Also he said I would need to be completly calm while having it done so they will be sedating me. They might, depending on how the sedation works, put me to sleep for it. ***I was sedated back when I was 13 years old and I fought the stuff hard…The doctors told me they gave me enough to knock out 3-5 grown adults and it never even knocked me out…So I’ll probably end up being put to sleep.***

They also did some blood work to check out my white blood count, to make absoluty sure it’s nothing serious.

They are going to call me sometime to tell me when the surgery will be…When I find out, I’ll blog it.

-Jeremy Jefferson

Appointment Tomorrow

Jeremy — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 17:37:57 +0000

I will see the doctor tomorrow at 1:30 PM. They are not going to remove my growth tomorrow though. They are just going to see how they will have to remove it….Like if they can do it in the office or if they’ll have to put me to sleep to do it at the hospital. I think it determines on how it’s connected to the skin and if it goes down any farther.

Update tomorrow after appointment.

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-Jeremy Jefferson.

Surgery Next Week

Jeremy — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 02:40:39 +0000

I haven’t talked about this at all but for the past month I have had this really gross growth on top of my head. It’s like a round little dome shaped thing. When people look at it they usually get grossed out….

Decided to go to the doctor today to have it looked at and they determined it will have to be removed. I will have surgery next week sometime to remove it in an outpatient procedure.

They are going to call sometime around noon tomorrow to schedule when exactly it will be…

As for now I got a bottle of Antibiotics to clear out any infection in it before I have the sugery. More info on this later.

-Jeremy Jefferson