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April 15, 2006
My lumps
One night more than five years ago I was driving back from covering a late meeting, and I squeezed my upper arm. There was a lump.
"That lump didn't used to be there," I thought. "What causes lumps? Cancer! Do I have arm cancer!?"
I'd never even heard of arm cancer, but I was frightened. Then I squeezed my other upper arm. There was a lump there too.
"Symmetrical arm cancers?"
That seemed pretty unlikely.
Then it hit me. I had developed muscles!
That was the first time in my life I had been making a concerted effort to work out on a regular basis. It was a few months after college. I was living with my parents, taking aerobics, and lifting these itty bitty three-pound weights at night.
Eventually my exercise habits lapsed, and the lumpy little arm muscles faded away.
Today I noticed that I'm developing a new set of muscles -- in my calves. I found them in my legs when I was trying to figure out why I was so sore. I've been doing all kind of cardiovascular exercise five days a week after work, and going for long walks on the weekends. So now I have a new set of random non-cancerous lumps in my body.
Posted by Courtney_Sherwood at April 15, 2006 07:08 PM