helpsarah
20-02-08, 13:53
I was out with some friends last night (the first time I've gone out aside from work or with my husband in a long time). I was sitting across from my girlfriend, Darby, and noticed she kept feeling her neck. Finally I asked, "What are you doing?" She said, "Last night I happened to feel around on my neck and felt something strange moving in there and now I can't stop touching it." Eventually, she asked me to feel it. "Darby," I said, "that's your trachea. If you press on it, it does move side to side." Then she wanted to feel mine, so I let her and she was like, "Oh yeah. It feels exactly the same as mine. But why does mine hurt?" I told her it was probaby because she had been pushing on her neck for the past 24 hours and to leave it alone! Then, my other girlfriend said, "I have a bump behind my ear. Will you look at it?" (I'm not sure why she asked. I do work at a hospital but I'm certainly not a doctor or nurse.) Anyway, I had a look and told her it looked like a pimple or a cyst, but nothing serious, but to see a doctor if she was concerned. Long story short here, I made me realize that everyone worries about their health and bodies from time to time. Those of us with HA just worry more than others....maybe we aren't so different afterall!