The bad - co-parent's coat was stolen from her car today, with her wallet, digital camera and iPod Touch in it.
The good - the specialist assured me that the very large cyst on my ovary is not of a sinister variety. Nothing else matters.
The complicated - so huge is the cyst that it's been pressing on some veins in my groin and I have a thrombosis there. Hospitalisation for anti-coagulant therapy is on the imminent agenda, followed by abdominal surgery to deal with the cyst.
Our long-haul flight to England is now off the agenda.
"Are you going to die?" asked my son in alarm. We'd managed to conceal the past week of high anxiety from him but he overheard discussions about the possibility of the clot breaking off and travelling to my lungs and was freaked out. I'm still busy feeling relieved about the benignity of the cyst and can't quite comprehend this new scenario.
Until last week I was doing three yoga classes a week and riding my bike for up to an hour a day. For the past week I've been scared to move in case the cyst burst. Now I'm scared to move in case the clot breaks off. 'Rollercoaster' doesn't quite capture it...
Glad to hear the good! I'm very relieved for you too. Hope the complications go as well as they can.
Posted by: Jennifer | Wednesday, August 27, 2008 at 06:59 AM
I hope things go well. Very well.
Poor boy.
xxx
Posted by: ThirdCat | Wednesday, August 27, 2008 at 10:27 AM
Glad to hear that your health problem is something that can be fixed, phew.
Commiserations on the loss of various valuables.
Hugs for the boy.
Posted by: tigtog | Wednesday, August 27, 2008 at 12:21 PM
Glad all the really bad things are off the table now--and good wishes for getting the cyst taken care of. That sounds hard for all of you.
Posted by: Susan | Wednesday, August 27, 2008 at 01:32 PM
What a relief. For you. A bit tense for Olly. Good luck for the surgery, I hope you recover quickly.
Posted by: elissa | Wednesday, August 27, 2008 at 01:35 PM
So glad to read the cyst is not something more sinister. Hope all goes well with the operation and your recovery.
Posted by: janet | Wednesday, August 27, 2008 at 09:27 PM
Quelle coincidence. My brother's ex rang me in tears last week because my 16 y o niece (the one I travelled to Sydney with) had been diagnosed with a large cyst. Like yours, it was big enough to cause additional symptoms - constipation in her case. It certainly sounded alarming.
Now that she's had scans, ex sounds much more relaxed - Cyst will be removed once they get a hospital bed and there's no additional complications. She said it's calcified and weighs a kilo! ! ! 1 !
I said she'd better ask to keep it in a jar of formaldehyde so we can see it!
I will be thinking of you both now. Hope everything goes really well, hugs to Olle.
Posted by: Helen | Thursday, August 28, 2008 at 11:03 AM
PS. Selfishly, I'm quite glad I missed reading your blog for a couple of days, so have only just read "Present Tense" - I'm so happy to hear of the outcome, well not the thrombosis part or missing the trip part - Poor you.
(((Hugs for you as well)))
Posted by: Helen | Thursday, August 28, 2008 at 11:17 AM