so say "F@*K THIS!", flip your desk over and walk out. gawd, what happened to you? you used to be cool. you've changed, man, you've changed!

I think one of my lymph nodes is swollen, but strangely only the right one on my neck. Alternately, it's a tumor.

:( I'm sick, dude. Cut me some slack.

Actually, I'm exhausted enough to be secretly happy for the unexpected downtime. Don't tell anyone.

muddgirl, my left lymph node is swollen. Perhaps I have one of yours. Or you have one of mine. Or both.

i lost the pattern for the slacks, so i'll have to cut some truth on you instead! catholic school boys are hard core rebels who'll never ever be any good. throwin' bones behind the gas-n-gulp, cruisin' the strip and standin' up narcs are all part of the game. but mostly standin' up narcs. you just got served... by 15 year-olds... weak, man, weak.

My clients keep standing me up

Bill 'em for your time, regardless. That'll teach them.

Occhi, teach your little brother where his shift key is.

Obligatory ;-)

I know, seriously, dno. Shift. SHIFT!

Also, pie, I'm a trainee, so I'm working for free. I have no leverage.

(However, my client actually did show up right after I posted this, so maybe I have the MAGIC POWER OF METACHAT.)

I think one of my lymph nodes is swollen, but strangely only the right one on my neck. Alternately, it's a tumor.
posted by muddgirl 08 November | 16:01

A lymph node on the back of my neck has been swollen like a little hard pea since I was a teen. I asked the docs for years what it was. The first docs said, "Let's not worry about that right now." Swell. That's reassuring. Then they started telling me it was a swollen lymph node but nothing to worry about. Then, years later, one said, "Well, It's not lymphoma. If it were lymphoma, you'd be dead by now!" Gee, thanks, doc. Nice bedside manner they teach ya these days.

I finally had a cat scan about a year ago when the node was achey and was kind of "scraping" against my muscles when I'd exercise.

Prognosis: No big deal, just a swollen lymph node.

Very common, actually. But I think it has to do with all of the toxins we breathe, drink and ingest daily.

I had a lymph node on the back of my neck once that was as big as a golf ball. The next morning I was diagnosed with mono. That lymph node has never gotten big since. One benefit was I was excused from PE the rest of the semester b/c my spleen was enlarged.

It's not a tumor.
/the governator