So I had a cyst on my back that recently became infected. After the infection passed, I had to go back to the doctor and have it cut out. A minor surgical operation. The following is approximately what the doctor said during the surgery:
Hello. Yes, so this is it here? In the middle of your back? Oh yes, I can see it leaking there. Ok, lie down on your stomach. I'm going to put some freezone in, and you shouldn't feel anything in that area anymore. Ok, there we go, freezone in. Yep, that was 3 jabs. We just have to wait a bit until that takes effect.
Ok, now let me know if you can feel any of this. Nope? Good. Can you feel this? Nope? Ok, good. [feel tugging on my back that lets me know he's cutting]
Hmm, you know how you sometimes look at something, and don't realise how big it is? This is one of those situations. The cyst is about the size of a grape. It's a bit bigger than I was expecting. [scraping noises]
You can feel that? Are you ok? Would you like some more freezone? No, no, this shouldn't take much longer. Ok, we'll keep going. [squishing noises that sound like a plumber with a plunger...]
Hmm, ok, there's half of it. I'll put it on the table here. You can see how big it is. Have to get the rest of it now. You doing ok there? You can feel the cutting? Yeah, we're probably not using enough anaesthetic for the size of the cyst. Not too long until we're done though.
Ok, that's done. Now, this has left a cavity about the size of a grape, of course. I'll start stitching it up now, but some of these have to be deep to try and close the cavity. Yeah, the anaesthetic isn't really deep enough. Let me know if you want to stop.
Ok, the rest of these stitches you shouldn't feel as they're on the surface. Oh, you can feel those? Yeah, they're just outside the area of the anaesthetic. Ok, those are done. Almost finished.
All done! Now, if you ever see those stitches - guess you won't with them on your back eh? - well, if you do, you might notice they're a bit erratic. I wasn't quite expecting the cyst to be so large. Anyway, come back in a week and we'll take them out.
I have to admit, he was a good doctor. I can't see his handiwork for myself, but he was friendly, and he did offer more anaesthetic. Was my choice to stick it out. But boy was that painful. :|
Now I've just got to take care of it, have sponge baths, etc for a week.
3 comments:
Hope you are feeling better now! Much better to have them out..
I think you've gotten off lightly...
When they came to take 3 or so out of my back the doctor took the first one, took the second.. and then started to take the third.. without anesthetic. The interesting part here is that apparently he didn't do a great job of closing - for the next summer or two when I was swimming people would keep asking my how I got knife wounds on my back..
I've also had a couple off the front. One had to go.. it was right on the belt line and was getting painful. There was another about 6 cm.. down.. from there which they took at the same time. Doc said it was much better to remove them than to have them rubbed.
Moving on. A friend of mine from work had an ingrown hair in his 'lower back' (just above his ass.. I think). He had it removed an it never healed over right.. something about there not being enough skin to close the wound. So far as I know he still has it (haven't seen him for ages).
*shudder* I'm feeling pain right now after reading... :(
Well that gave me a laugh, apart from the pain bit. What was the Doctor on? Maybe we could all use some of it. He would make a good Australian with his "she'll be right mate" attitude.
If you go to the chemist you should be able to get large waterproof bandages to cover the stitches so that you can shower. You might need to get someone to put it on though.
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