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By Nick Hodge | August 28, 2008

Some­time in 1986/7 I went to a doc­tor for what I found out was a sebaceous cyst on my left shoulder blade. Not going into detail, but I was left with a per­man­ent reminder of this cyst. That is, the bulk of the scar­ring remained.

Yes­ter­day, after an inflam­ma­tion and a 6 week battle of with anti-biotics, I could finally get the beastie removed. Under the care­ful assist­ance of Avril, I had the cyst pro­fes­sion­ally removed. The size of a grape, the sur­gical excision took 45 minutes under local. Now I have a 4cm scar with 5 stitches. Strangely, apart from the pain of a deep skin wound; my body seems to be relieved that the nas­ti­ness has gone.

The left hand side of my body is a war zone. Scars, infec­tions, palsies. LOL

Update 28th August 2008: Stitches removed. No nas­ties found in the biopsy.

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5 Responses to “More medical stories”

  1. Duncan Says:
    August 28th, 2008 at 11:55 am

    Good to see you’re ok. Cor­to­zone won’t help the scaring?

  2. Andrew Smith Says:
    August 29th, 2008 at 6:54 pm

    A good Vit­amin E cream is use­ful for heal­ing scar areas.

  3. Wolf Says:
    September 2nd, 2008 at 5:53 pm

    jezz,
    you lucky lucky bastard…

    I had 15 of them removed 7 weeks ago under gen­eral.. 36 stitches on my back and neck… the prob­lem was I had about 10 removed a few years back and had no stitches at all very good doc­tor.. the one I had was a butcher basically.

    ;-)

  4. Andrew Smith Says:
    September 2nd, 2008 at 6:01 pm

    IANAD, but …

    Actu­ally, the other one (el butchero) may well have been a good doc­tor who excised with a higher mar­gin of safety, given the recur­rence of the cysts. Or he might have had a dif­fer­ent set of issues to deal with com­pared to the first doctor.

    Stitches are neither here nor there com­pared to the need to do a thor­ough job. Hope­fully they won’t be back again.

  5. Nick Hodge Says:
    September 2nd, 2008 at 10:59 pm

    @Wolf — ouch­ies! On removal, there is always the chance of reoc­cur­ance… but not axplosion!!

    @Andrew — have now removed the big arse band­age and am apply­ing Vit­amin E cream 2x per day on the scar. As the loc­a­tion is on my shoulder, the chance of any­one see­ing it is zero… so I am not too stressed by the scar.

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