It is a small tumor inside a nerve in my right forearm. Dr. M, a hand surgeon is going to operate to remove it on February 12. It is to be outpatient surgery and should only take 2 hours sometime in the morning. He said I should be able to go back to work the following Monday. Best case scenario, they will be able to remove the tumor easily and I will start regaining the use I had lost within a week. Worst case scenario, it will be so intertwined with the fibers of the nerve, he will have to cut that portion of the nerve out and graft another section into that area. Obviously, that would take far longer to heal. He said it was highly unlikely that the tumor is cancerous as it is very slow growing but they would not know that for sure until they got results from the lab.
It will be nice to get my right hand back.
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