It's always scary to find a lump. I found one about the width and length of my thumb on my abdomen on a Friday morning in late June and booked an appointment with my general practitioner for the following Tuesday. She thought it might be a hernia (which I found incredible given that I'm a fit, 45-year-old woman), but I obsessively read everything about hernias until my appointment with a surgeon a few days later. He basically said, not so fast, and sent me off for an ultrasound.

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