Funny bump

Summer is finally over here, and thank goodness! The humidity here is deadly. On the two worse days the temperature was 97 degrees and the heat index 108! You definitely feel the heat a lot more here, too, because many places aren't air conditioned (and those that are are often still pretty warm).

On Sunday morning after eating breakfast I coughed and felt a pain just left of my belly bottom. Without thinking I reached down and touched my stomach and there was a funny bump there. Now that's pretty scary! It hurt when I pressed on it, but other than that it didn't bother me. My first thought was apendicits, but it was on the wrong side. I decided to keep on eye on it during the day.

Today (Monday) I woke up and it was still there. I was thinking that it could be a hernia, so I went to the emergency room. (Today is a holiday, so the doctors' offices are closed.) I waited less than five minutes to see an intern and then a doctor. The doctor told me that it was nothing serious and that it would probably go away in a week. If not, of course, I need to have it looked it. She said it was probably a fibroma or a "bolita de grasa" (llittle ball of fat). Anyone know that the medical name for the latter would be?

By the way, my fiancee's name is Carla. Well, actually that's what everyone calls her, but her real name is Maria. It turns out that when she was born you couldn't give your child a non-government approved name, and Carla wasn't on the list. Weird, huh?