Remember that bump I had on my lip? (If you are joining us late, you can get up to speed by reading this and this.)
I don’t think I ever said what the lip bump actually was. It turned out to be a benign granular cell tumor. That’s not the strange part. The really weird part was what I read up about them: “Presentation of granular cell tumor in the lip of an adult is extremely rare.” It seems I can’t get something normal. No, it has to be rare. Not just rare, either but extremely rare. What the heck is up with that?
To further this whole rare thing, today I went to the dentist. 3 years ago I had another fairly rare thing happen – my body was attacking the root of one of my teeth & re-absorbing it. That meant the tooth had to be removed. Instead of going with a bridge, I opted to go into debt and get an implant. For the past few months, the stupid implant has been bothering me – thus the dentist trip.
“That’s very unusual. The implant is failing. I’ve been doing this for 19 years and have a 99% success rate and I’ve never seen it fail after the first year. If they’re going to fail, it’s usually right away.” Yep, that’s me. Can’t do things the normal way. What fun would that be?
I’m expecting that sooner or later, when we hit something rare, it’s going to have to be “good” rare for a change, don’t ya think?
And we could use some prayers around here. My sister is back in the hospital again.
I’ve always thought you were rare; good rare. But we all know that bad rare things sometimes happen to good rare people, so pull up your Big Girl Panties and deal
. And I am JUST JOKING when I say that. I just wanted an excuse to say “pull up your Big Girl Panties” cause I think it’s funny. The best part about all of this bad rare stuff of yours is that there are options and there is no real damage done. Now, when they start telling you that it’s “rare and deadly”? Well, Houston…we have a problem. I am going to start praying NOW that those words never enter your (possibly rare, pointed) ears.
And about your sis…awww, no! I’m so sorry for her, and also sorry for you–and I’ll be praying lots. It is REALLY time for your family to catch a break.
I’m not complaining on the rare disorders. I find it amusing. And somewhat ironic.
I had hoped that the curse would go from me off into outer space and not find you again. I’m keeping her in my thoughts and prayers.
I think it is extremely rare to win the lottery and even rarer yet to give big chunks of money to your bloggy friends like Kim and I when you do win big. Just a thought.
I’m flinging frogspit for your sister, Monk.
You’re a medical marvel. Bask.
Yes, it’s time you get good rare, like winning a lottery. I alo am an extremely rare and not in a good way person, so I understand.
Granular cell tumor?…that sounds scary. I’m so glad that it’s gone -AND Benign! Sending up prayers for Janet.