Battle of the Bulge

...the bulge on my back that is.
Alternate Title: My Lovely (not lady) Lump....
Alternate Title 2: The Evil Cyst Lord

..ever since turning 23 (ancient) I feel like my body has been waging a war of annoyance against me. Putting me in the most pain and discomfort without actually dishing up anything severe or life threatening (thank god). Either way it sucks. I've pretty much been wavering between a cycle of kinda sick, down right sick, and recovering from a cold ever since my birthday. I have a cough, and cankersores. I feel gross.

And the icing on the cake. A cyst. A benign cyst that decided that this week would be a *great* week to get infected. On the base of my neck in the back. I made an appointment to have it checked out for next Wednesday, but after I had doctor Kay look at it and tell me to to go to urgent care, I resolved to be a big boy and walk over to the Tang Center urgent care bright and early this morning right when they opened to have it dealt with.

Right decision. Because the longer I waited, the worse the infection would have got. They saw me right away, and I spent the morning on my back with a doctor sticking needles in me, cutting me up, and squeezing puss out of the cyst. Lovely I know. Aren't you glad I shared? To top it all off, they gave me tetanus shot.

So here I am, with a huge ass bandage and loads of tape covering a small but open wound just underneath my shirt collar (at least it doesn't show).

Quite the ordeal.

But you know what? I'm happy. I don't have to really worry about that thing anymore, cause it really was worrying me. And now that the good doctor has launched a counter-attack on it I'll be feeling better soon, and maybe all my other minor health problems will go away since my body is no longer wasting energy fighting the evil cyst.

And I'm also happy because I dealt with something all by myself. On my own health insurance. With my own money. On my own gumption that this was something that needed to be dealt with.

And I'm also happy because the people in the Tang Center were super nice and friendly today. Not what I expected.

And that my friends, brings me to a close of my most disgusting and unflattering post ever. But hey, I know ya love me, cysts and all. ;-)