Lumps in the road

It's been a crappy week. I have been dieting and exercising regularly for 3 weeks and have actually GAINED 2 pounds. That in and of itself makes me want to just buy the biggest freakin' cake I can find and eat the whole dang thing in two minutes. Then on top of that, we have had to deal with double ear infections with Mae last week, and I've been dealing with crazy headaches this week. It seems like someone has been or had something strange since before Christmas. Stinkin' Spring CANNOT come soon enough for me!

Thursday afternoon, I noticed I had some weird lump in the side of my neck. It grew to eventually look like someone cut a golf ball in half and stuck it right inside my neck. I thought it was probably just a swollen lymph node or something since we've been fighting junk off. Accompanied with the headaches and strange feelings I've been feeling while working out, I decided to have it checked out yesterday. I have a good doctor. She's solid, knows her stuff, not the greatest bedside manner, but like I said, I don't need a best friend, I need a doctor. She follows up and get's stuff done. It was rather disconcerting to hear her say "I don't really know what that lump is. It's not a lymph node, could be a salivary gland, lets wait two weeks and see". Nice. I also informed her of some symptoms I've been having while working out which seemed to worry her more (my heart rate has jumped to over 200 several times, and I get the general feeling that the veins in my neck are closing to the point of passing out), so she had me do an EKG and next week I get to have one of those treadmill stress tests done. I'm sure it's all a moot point and everything is fine, but still, not my idea of fun.

So in the meantime, I will wait. The lump shrunk to the size of a quarter now, so I am praying it just keeps going down. It's annoying in the fact that it's their and I can feel it whenever I swallow or even breath. I will continue to work out as I feel like it and hopefully will see some results soon. Maybe I'm just that out of shape that I have to work on getting my heart rate regular........