how I found my lymphoma
Early in March I decided to try again to increase my vertical jump and started using the Vertimax at City Beach, which is this contraption where you strap a belt around your waist, and attach these resistance bands on the sides that rapidly pull you back to the ground. I did the Vertimax 2 days (one day of rest in between) and a couple days afterwards I started having some pain in my right hip, back and leg. It kept me home from hanging out with friends because every evening it was really starting to hurt. I kept coaching though, and kept jumping around and all that because I just assumed that this was my first old man injury. I took some advil one time and played on it and that felt fine, except then again a couple days later it hurt more. I started waking up in the middle of the night with extreme pain, shooting down from my hip to my knee. I almost went to the ER a couple of times but toughed it out like a coolguy. Later I went to see the doctor at urgent care who x-rayed my hip and saw that it was normal so she told me it was probably muscular. Then I continued with horrible pain for a week or so, walking around and coaching until I saw another doc that told me it was muscular but then referred me to Dr. King (I coached his daughter a few seasons and he really looked out for me big-time) and Dr. King got me an MRI and then a CT Scan and a Bone Scan and got me on the track to research what this "moth-eaten" hip bone was all about. He also showed me that I had a stress fracture in my hip socket, so I should probably stay off of it. So, I went to crutches (donated by some cool friends at the hospital where I work) and that relieved a ton of the pain. A couple weekends ago, Dr. Kathy Renschler (I coach her daughter too) got me a wheelchair at a tournament we had in LA and that relieved my pain almost entirely. So for 2 weeks now I've been in a wheelchair and going to all kinds of appointments and I've had my parents in town and all that. Monday of this week I had a CT guided Needle Biopsy, which is where they stick a needle into my hip and pull out pieces of my bone and then they look at it under a microscope. They said that when it came time to get into the bone they only needed the biopsy needle to get in there (instead of a bone needle and some power tools)...the bone was just really soft from the tumor. The results came back Wednesday that I have Non-Hodgkin's Large B-cell Lymphoma.

1 Comments:
OK all this blog should have said is:
"Thanx to a paranoid student of mine, I got my hip checked out and caught the cancer before it spread."
And really, you don't owe me anything. It was my PLEASURE to save your life. (A 500 dollar check wouldn't hurt tho....)
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