So my father has this baseball sized ball in his neck, and he’s had an ultrasound, a CT scan, and all the doctors seemed to think it’s a tumor.

Sure enough, he got the pathology report and its now confirmed to be a staph infection.

Because my father didn’t have a fever or an elevated wcb, I don’t think his doctors really thought it could be an infection.

But it is. Staph. Something I have a lot of problems with too.

Begin forwarded message:

From: Teddy
Date: December 12, 2012 3:16:05 PM PST
To: Dr. Sherman

Cc: Dr. Kachru
Subject: You were right–it’s confirmed as an infection on my father’s neck

I think the reason the doctors in Canada assumed it was a tumor (he had ultrasound, and CT scans too), was because he didn’t have an elevated wcb or a fever, so the

doctors didn’t know how to process the baseball size bubble in his neck.

I still think it needs to be cut out, or drained…it’s really big and gross 🙂

What a relief…

Not that I had any doubts, but I definitely got this immune deficiency from my father. What exactly it is, may remain to be seen….

His doctors are probably scratching their heads as we speak 🙂

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