The Baseball in my Football
In February, I couldn't ignore that feeling of "coming down with something". I had nausea and increasing abdominal and upper back pain. My Primary Doc ordered lab tests that showed I probably had liver inflammation. (For my medical friends: AST, ALP & ALT) An ultrasound followed, showing a 7.5 - 8 cm mass in my liver. Oh, I thought it was just because I was getting old. I'm a nurse, but don't know much about livers or tumors. Maybe I was absent that day in college, when we covered it? Turning to my favorite medical source, the WWW, I started searching and was very surprised to learn that, after the skin on our bodies, the liver is the next largest organ. For an adult, it is the size of a football. I was trying to visualize how a football could fit in my body with all that "other stuff". Mine is inflamed. Is that why I feel like I'm in my 9th month of pregnancy and the baby is pushing against my ribs? I tried to visual...