"A significant mass"....those were the latest words from yet another of Kami's doctors.
For several weeks now, Kami has been having a growth on the bottom-front of her foot. We thought it might be just a callous but it was getting larger and starting to cause problems.
She mentioned this to her doctor at her last appointment and he referred her to a podiatrist. After careful examination and x-rays, he said that she had "a significant mass" and that it was not a callous.
It was alarming to him in two ways:
Firstly- This is not the first tumor that she has had to appear. If you remember, she had 3 removed from her left arm/hand this past February. He wanted to make sure that these others were not malignant.
Secondly- This new mass in her foot was large enough that it is displacing the bones in her foot. So he injected it with a steroid and told her to come back in 3 weeks to check its size.
The exciting news to Kami was that he told her to go shoe shopping and to buy some new shoes that would support her foot better and ones that are comfortable enough to wear even while at home!
(Shoe shopping!!! Are you serious? I didn't know that could be a doctor's prescription!)
I do have to admit though, that shoe shopping does help a sick girl to feel better!!!
