It turned out that I had a massive tumor in my chest that had developed around my heart and was compressing the superior vena cava. Not very good!
It was a completely unrelated lump, which is funny. “Nope, that lump is fine, just a lipoma. But we need to biopsy the additional mass we saw in the corner of your x-ray.
This is very similar to what my mother had. had many scans after having a stroke, and one of them just happened to catch the edge of something.
A lump the size of a tennis ball was in her chest. Whack. Although it didn’t turn out to be anything especially unpleasant, it seemed strange that she was unaware of its existence. –
