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13 January 2007

I got shot four times in the tummy by a Scottish doctor! In one hole, she inserted a camera, in one a tiny air hose, and puffed me up as air. And in two she stuck tiny knives, and she extracted... not safe for lunch:→[More:] ...a cyst the size of a plum, and there was HAIR inside!

(sadly, I did not think to ask what colour the hair was.)

I woke up with a drain in me, and took morphine a few times but it made me pretty sick. Also it tastes horrible! I am now on a lot of Paracetamol.

Good nurses, good at answering questions, and I had a private room with my own shitter! And my own sink and tv and stuff. I was terribly lucky. And VERY lucky to have the skilled, patient and stylish surgeon.

As essexjan warned, I've been, er, outgassing a lot.

Thanks for all your whuffles as well bunnies! I'll probably be hanging out here for a few days as moving becomes slightly less nontrivial.

post by: By the Grace of God at: 14:57 | 19 comments

BTGOG: I hope you are back to normal very soon and I'm glad that it went so well!

Sounds like you had a teratoma. My friend had one in one of his testis that was full of sweat glands (ew) and I saw an ovarian one in a pathology class that had hair and teeth! Sometimes they even contain little bits of bone. They are one of the grossest and neatest things that I've seen.

posted by LunaticFringe 13 January | 15:09

I'm glad you're doing good after you're tune up. Keep up the good work.

posted by sciurus 13 January | 15:32

BTGOG, I am so glad you are doing well and are at home.

posted by LoriFLA 13 January | 15:35

Glad this is finally over, grace! Get all better guickly, and in the meantime, spoil yourself rotten. :)

posted by taz 13 January | 15:37

Glad it's over, BtGoG.

I too have a teratoma and am in the process of looking for surgeons to take it out. So I'll be going through the same thing as you soon!

posted by gaspode 13 January | 15:51

Good to hear from you BtGoG! Glad you're on the mend. I second taz's suggestion--spoil yourself rotten (as much as is possible), rest, and bask in bunny whuffles.

posted by elizard 13 January | 15:57

The rough part is over anyway.

... and it looks like I may also be encountering something similar soon. I am still waiting for test results, but whatever it is, it definitely requires surgery of the general-anesthetic variety. Not great news since I already have advanced heart disease. The positive side of all this is that I am absolutely fascinated by all the technology involved.

Best wishes to you, btgog!

posted by mischief 13 January | 16:06

Btgog, glad things went well! Laparoscopic surgery rocks-that's how I disposed of a gall bladder.

posted by bunnyfire 13 January | 16:30

Ah, nothing like a good old dermoid. Glad you weathered it.

posted by ikkyu2 13 January | 18:09

Oooh, I hope you didn't have TEETH stuck inside you. I'm glad the bad thing has been removed, and hope you are feeling much better.

posted by theora55 13 January | 18:21

There's a Margaret Atwood story about one of those. It's called "Hairball". I won't tell you what the character did with hers.

Glad you're feeling better!

posted by tangerine 13 January | 20:47

(((Grace)))

Take it easy and spoil yourself rotten!

posted by deborah 13 January | 22:42

Glad you'll be ok....the Atwood character sent hers to someone who deserved it.

posted by brujita 14 January | 01:04

Oh, I can think of a few people who would deserve my hairball but I was too fucked up on drugs to think to ask!

posted by By the Grace of God 14 January | 06:19

Hey, it's finally over!
So how long until you are fully recovered, and does this mean all your weird woes are gone for good?

posted by ethylene 14 January | 06:38

This is probably inappropriate*, but I came across this when doing a Google image search on "teratoma."

*but not a gross medical picture, I promise.

posted by mullacc 14 January | 06:41

I'm glad it's over and went well for you! Let the quick healing begin.

posted by redvixen 14 January | 10:38

OMG, mullacc, Tabitha is, um, adorable.

BtGoG, did you ask if you could keep the teratoma? After all, it is yours.

posted by essexjan 14 January | 11:49

essexjan, um, NO!

I want a Tabitha now, tho!!!!

posted by By the Grace of God 14 January | 13:23

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