I've been in MI over a month now and had only planned on staying until the 17th and then heading out to Colorado. Well things didn't go exactly how I had planned and I'm still here! Yes, it's been great to visit with friends and family, but I was looking forward to moving onwards to new horizons.

Many of you may know the reason for my prolonged stay in this great sate of Michigan, but for those who don't...

I noticed my left leg getting larger a few months back and thought it was just from favoring my left leg and perhaps peddling to much with it on my bike. As it continued to grow so did a bump in my groin which I had thought just was my pelvic bone, just a little asymmetrical.

I had it Xray-ed, an MRI and a visit to an Orthopedic Surgeon who ruled out a bone and concluded it was a mass of some sort. He then referred me to an Orthopedic Oncologist. The oncologist, Dr. Irwin decided to bypass biopsying the mass and just operate and take it all out. I had surgery, they removed it all and found out that it was a tumor and had been putting pressure on my femoral artery and vein, which was causing my leg to swell. When they took it out it was the size of my fist, a bi-lobed fibrous tumor, it was huge!!

While it looked clean and the Dr. felt it was Benign they had to do a pathology report to find out. A week later I got the good news! I have a big scar now on my bikini line and am healing up. I had to take it easy for a while, but can now walk. I should be back to running and biking in a month or so. They muscle where it had grown in is still recovering, but hopefully now everything is starting to get back to normal. Although, the size of the left leg hasn't seemed to shrink any..hopefully soon it will begin to. I am very lucky and thankful that everything went so smoothly and really thought my Dr. was excellent. I was fortunate to have my mom come and visit during surgery and after to take care of me, not much of a vacation for her, but it was good to be together.

If anyone is interested in a photos of the tumor..come on you know you all are..
click here. Jen's Tumor I would've posted it here, but will spare those who really aren't interested in seeing it :)

Signing off from MI