Comments on: More medical stories http://www.nickhodge.com/blog/archives/2600 microsoft, munging and on being a mercurial iconoclastic professional geek. Thu, 14 Jul 2011 19:42:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Nick Hodge http://www.nickhodge.com/blog/archives/2600/comment-page-1#comment-92510 Nick Hodge Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:59:17 +0000 http://www.nickhodge.com/blog/archives/2600#comment-92510 @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. @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.

]]> By: Andrew Smith http://www.nickhodge.com/blog/archives/2600/comment-page-1#comment-92416 Andrew Smith Tue, 02 Sep 2008 08:01:12 +0000 http://www.nickhodge.com/blog/archives/2600#comment-92416 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. 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.

]]> By: Wolf http://www.nickhodge.com/blog/archives/2600/comment-page-1#comment-92412 Wolf Tue, 02 Sep 2008 07:53:41 +0000 http://www.nickhodge.com/blog/archives/2600#comment-92412 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. ;-) 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.

;-)

]]> By: Andrew Smith http://www.nickhodge.com/blog/archives/2600/comment-page-1#comment-89952 Andrew Smith Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:54:35 +0000 http://www.nickhodge.com/blog/archives/2600#comment-89952 A good Vitamin E cream is useful for healing scar areas. A good Vitamin E cream is useful for healing scar areas.

]]> By: Duncan http://www.nickhodge.com/blog/archives/2600/comment-page-1#comment-89096 Duncan Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:55:48 +0000 http://www.nickhodge.com/blog/archives/2600#comment-89096 Good to see you're ok. Cortozone won't help the scaring? Good to see you’re ok. Cortozone won’t help the scaring?

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