What's the difference? Thankfully the words benign and malignant.
For those of you who don't go to the same church...we have a young boy in our church who was recently diagnosed with bone cancer...
in his leg
close to his knee
he also goes to the same school
we pray for him often
So we have been learning a little about bone cancer
The fact that there is higher incidence in males than females
The fact that it often surfaces in the mid- teen years
The fact that it often occurs close to growth plates.
Anyhow...when Ezekiel complained of knee pain the other week without having injured it...
at least not that he remembered.
We put it down to having worn the wrong orthotic inserts in his shoes when we were at the cabin for a long weekend....it also had something to do with a limb stretching contest that he might have been involved in.
Mystery solved...mother-worry diminished
But....
When he came to us on Saturday with a LUMP above the same knee.
I tried to blame it on the bike ride that he had taken with his dad.
Tues night dad came to me and said "you know he still has that lump and I don't think it is the muscle"
He was right. It was definitely on the femur.
The internet is awful.....it is wonderful
I found the two terms....the two osteo's one painless and the other painful
Ezekiel's was painless
And to day the doctor also confirmed that it is benign.
He wants to see him in three months and again in six, just to be sure.
Praise the Lord we are not walking that path...my relief feels guilty though....I don't know if I will even have the nerve to mention my "praise" in women's Sunday school...I feel so selfish
And so relieved.
O don't I know! So thankful, so guilty! But mostly thankful! I'm thankful with you!
ReplyDeleteOh that is a relief, but I know what you mean. :)
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Our daughter complained of knee pain after a boy at church tripped her and she banged her knee into a pole. After the initial time period of pain, it kept on hurting.
We went to the doctor and he took an x ray. Nothing showed up at all.
She still will complain of pain in that knee over a year later, after she has exercised.
The doctor thinks that it will resolve itself and that because of a deep bruise it is just sensitive now.
Glad for you!Yes,you did feel so relieved when you find out good news.We have also learned that God's grace is sufficient when you hear"bad news".
ReplyDeleteSo relieved for you. And if we are to give thanks in all things, then the thankfulness and relief of a mother at a "benign" diagnosis is no slight to others, because we need for our own sakes to give thanks in good and bad. We love you all.
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