In a message dated 5/30/2005 7:16:45 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
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Any  ideas on what this might be?  thank you for your  thoughts




Not sure if this has anything to do with the breasts or not,  but years ago, 
I scratched my leg on a Rabbit cage and ended up with "Cat  Scratch Fever".  
Can't remember the technical name for it, but I do  remember that after the 
initial wound healed, I became ill with flu like  symptoms that drug on and then 
the lymph nodes in my groin grew to the size of  grapefruit and my entire leg 
swelled to about twice the normal size.  It  wasn't an infection that the 
doctors immediately looked for, so went through a  lot before the proper diagnosis 
was made, and the proper antibiotics were  prescribed.  Since the scratch was 
on the breast, and it was made by a cat  (albeit well vaccinated etc.) That 
type of infection should be ruled out, as  there isn't a vaccine for cat 
scratch fever that I am aware of and like any  bacteria, it can be carried in from 
your shoes etc and the cat can pick it up  when scratching at the carpet etc.  
Just a potential answer to the  question....
 
Renee Drake RN CLC
 
 

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