Ok, she finished her round of antibiotics and I have watched the bumps on her neck and how she is acting with that ear. Last night the size of the bump under her ear was noticeably larger and her behavior has been showing me that that ear is bothering her even more so I took her in today, requesting to see Dr. Lance himself.. That is a tumor in her ear that she keeps scratching and looking at samples that she has tore off of it herself show it is benign. He took some of the fluid from the bump under the skin under the ear and that shows benign also. He said we need to get that one in her ear out just because of how she is ripping it up scratching it and I agreed and he wanted to just watch the one under her ear.
I told him the problem with that was I am afraid whatever it is, it is fast growing, that when I first noticed it, it was only ONE BB sized one and I watched it close, three weeks later, there was a long line of them.. He looked at the paperwork from when I was there before and looked stunned.. He said in the 10 or so days since the first time I had her in, it has grown from a BB sized one to about the size of the pinky finger and YES, that was TO fast growing and that needed to come out too or before long or she'd have a growth hanging off the side of her head!
That one will be a lot more involved, more nerves and things surrounding it that will make it more tricky..The tumor in the ear is simple to remove and should be nothing to it. I don't know how I will handle this emotionally as you all know what she means to me. She is scheduled for Surgery May 3.
Please keep her in your prayers!
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