With all the paperwork in hand I went up to see Dr. Letson along with my mom and Mary Gale. It seemed like hours later but finally Dr. L came into the room along with two of his interns (one of whom was Dr. Alexander). He said they had reviewed all of the films and xrays and, yes, it was a tumor. They did not know what kind of tumor so they would have to do some surgery to take a biopsy. If it turned out to be a sarcoma they would put a rod in my leg to stabilize it and close me back up. If it was anything else, they would try to scrape off the tumor and patch me up. Letson asked if I wanted "cadaver bone" or "cement" and of course I said cement. Can you imagine having a dead person's bone attached to your bone?? Letson said the cadaver bone worked really well. Yuckkk.
We all went home thinking it was a piece of cake (or at least I did) and that they would scrape off whatever was growing and after a week or so I would be better and back to work. LOL. Boy was I wrong about that. I didn't know what was ahead for me, that's for sure!
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