Spent the day in the doctor’s office and all looked well, woke up this morning with a baseball under my arm.

What the heck is this, did they forget something, is there a bleeder, what did I do to cause this and how do I stop it?

It is not becoming to say the least, I don’t have a midriff bulge, and I have an armpit bulge.

Not easy to hide that one!

Off to work I go, but what a nuisance. What am I supposed to do now?

I call long distance and get the secretary who will leave a message for the nurse, and the nurse will then call me and I can relay my story and she will tell the doctor and then they will call me back.

Will that be today ... or next month?

I continue on my daily schedule with my beeper on, waiting for the call.

I do get it mid-morning and I explain I had seen the doctor yesterday but today I have a baseball under my arm. She will get back to me.

Being the nurse I am (but not at this point, I am all patient), I seek out others for answers and, after several different people and different doctors, I am told that it is a seroma (which is clear serous fluid that sometimes develops after surgery).

Bingo, the answer!

Now what can I do about it?

In the meantime, the nurse has called and told me I must make the long-distance trip back and go to the Emergency Department and someone will see me there.