Behold, I tell you mystery...

Like the Messiah song above I would like to be "changed incorruptible" but it is not so..

My mystery started as I was noticing a smallish lump (pee sized)above my left eye under my eyebrow, towards the beginning of February. I finally had a doc appointment for the middle of March after being inspired by pain and 'morning double vision' (as I call it), This doc referred me to an eye doc who I couldn't see till mid April who then scheduled me for a CAT scan today, May 12th. Feb-May+ 3months

So I've been waiting for this day for some time now. And from day one I said, "I think it's just a cyst, like what's in my wrist." (and yes I am a poet.)

"If you'd just kindly stab it with a needle and suck it out we can both go on our merry way"...but alas the doc would rather go the safe route (_go figure_) and so the darn thing has been slowly getting bigger.

So there I am 8am on a strange table.

"Just lay still and we'll do our thing", a kind nurse says.--or something like that--

Then I hear the normal chuka chuka chuka that I remember from oh so fun days of yore when a car accident once left me under one of these fun devices.

BUT suddenly a purple-ish light crosses my eyes, so I decide I'd better just keep them shut for this...and uh WHAT THE HECK...DO I smell CHLORINE?

Every time the purple-ish light went by my eyes out came that same smell. Like when you have to drink horrible Gilbert water from the tap, that wonderful smell of odorific chlorine hits you.

(ps. I have always drank filtered water because my father sells water purification units, so if you are used to Gilbert water and it doesn't offend you, I apologize....)

Well I think "Hey the machine has stopped so it's party over, right?" WRONG!! This time I get to take the IV contrast.

They poke my arm for the IV. All of the sudden my throat is on fire!! The heat I felt just kept getting hotter and hotter! Then is spread to my neck & chest, then my face & ears and I have the odd taste of like 20 pennies in my mouth. THEN I FELT LIKE I WAS PEEING MY PANTS!!! --but I wasn't--

WOW!! That was fun.

I finally tell the nurse that out of all the 7 times the purple-ish light has gone by every single time I smelled chlorine.

She says she'd been doing this for 10 years and that so far no one has ever said that to her. We both surmised that since this is growing on my sinuses maybe it had something to do with triggering odd smells.

?????MYSTERY???

Now I get to wait a few more days for my doc to call me back and schedule an appointment to discuss the results. Let's hope I get all of this resolved before the end of the summer or before I loose my eye!!

j/k
I pretty sure it's just a cyst, I get them in my wrists and on my uterus (yes I went there) and so I'm thinking maybe they are bent on total domination.

When I am resurrected there's just a few things I am looking forward to...like no more cysts!!