A lipoma is a slow-growing, fatty lump that's most often situated between your skin and the underlying muscle layer. Often a lipoma is easy to identify because it moves readily with slight finger pressure. It's doughy to touch and usually not tender. You may have more than one lipoma. Lipomas can occur at any age, but they're most often detected during middle age.
A lipoma isn't cancer and is usually harmless. Treatment generally isn't necessary, but if the lipoma bothers you, is painful or is growing, you may want to have it removed.
So basically it's no big deal. When they remove it, They will send it off to the lab to double check to see if there are any cancer cells...which is HIGHLY unlikely. The procedure itself is minor and very safe. The location of the lipoma is away from any organs or vital arteries so there isn't anything to worry about. I think I am supposed to go completely under with anesthesia for the procedure which makes me a little nervous. I've never had to do that before! I'm sure it's all good though. I am scheduled to get the lipoma removed on May 19th and I can go to work immediately after if I want. No recovery time needed. Like I said, minor but I just want to keep everyone in the loop! :-)
Now on to the fun stuff! We are getting our own place pretty soon here. It's not really coming soon enough though because unfortunately our move in date got pushed back a month than what it was originally scheduled for. Bummer. After we had to move out of the beach house in Haena, we were planning on only having to stay at James for 10 days. We left everything in boxes while we awaited our move in date. Well, we got a call from our landlord saying that he had to push it back a month. The guy who originally bought the house rented it from our landlord for a month to finish moving out, painting some things and whatever else they agreed to before selling the house. Well, the original owner was apparently running behind on some things and he was supposed to oversee a massive tree being taken down and a septic tank being put in. In the back of our minds we knew that whole process would take longer than what our landlord expected but we had hope it would get done! He lives in California where things get done quickly. In Kauai, it can take several weeks just to get a permit to start doing something. All that to say, we are moving in on May 21st and in the meantime have been living out of our boxes (which is no fun). It can not come soon enough! The house is bigger than what we need and it's on 5 acres but we fell in love with it and it is SO hard to find a decent place to live! The original owner built the house himself and it has such a rustic personality. The kitchen is outdated and old among other things but we love the character it brings. We have all of the avocado, tangerines and many varieties of oranges we can eat on the property. There is plenty of room for a garden and a fixer-upper chicken coop to keep chickens in. I am hoping to make a "moving in" video and give you a tour of the house, but for now here is a picture of the outside. Sorry the quality is crappy...I stole it off of the internet. :-)
Now we have PLENTY of room for visitors!! Come see us!
Much love,
The Brothers
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