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Thursday, April 28, 2011

Why meeeeee

Here's the backstory on my eye thing. About four months ago, I developed some sort of little white cyst-y thing just under the skin on my eyelid. It didn't bother me much and wasn't very noticeable, so I let it reside there. Plus, my options for having it removed on Statia were A) limited and B) dubious. So we learned to coexist.

But then I up and moved to Idaho, and the cyst swelled right up. This was not okay with me. I went to the dermatologist this morning.

Just as Jon predicted, the doctor drained my eye. He injected the lump with lidocaine and scalpeled the S out of that cyst. I couldn't feel any pain beyond the needle, but there was plenty of squeezing in addition to ripping sensations. Eventually what I'd thought was a cyst was worked out - it was actually a rice-sized calcium deposit.

The whole thing was fascinating and I wanted explanations throughout the entire process, but afterward when I began ruminating over the horrible sensations I'd felt and thinking about that needle going into my swell-eye, it sort of turned my stomach. So when Jon and my mom stopped at Cafe Rio right afterward for lunch, I abstained from food, forlornly iced my incision, and attracted stares.



Here it is about two hours post-surgery:



Aaand, with my eye [partially] open:

The doctor told me the bruising might get worse and spread over the next few days. He also assured me that what he'd extracted was definitely organic and terrestrial.

5 comments:

  1. Hope you don't bruise too badly! But I have to say I'm absolutely fascinated with this also. I love seeing "cyst removal" on our patient day sheet. Good luck!

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  2. OH MY HELL!!! what just happened to you??? i am so sorry- your eye looks horrible!! i hope you don't FEEL horrible too!! and i am also glad it wasn't an alien. LOL your mom. ha. RICE-SIZED? that's HUGE!!!
    hope you feel better ASAP-AMAP, and also i hope you don't have to go anywhere. hehe love you

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  3. ah, jessie! at the first close-up i thought, "that doesn't look too bad. . . " then when i saw you with the eye half-closed. . . sad! I hope you are feeling okay! Also, glad it wasn't an alien.

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  4. At first I thought they scraped it out from the inside of the eyelid and I almost had to stop reading. Looking at the pictures, I think/hope I'm wrong. Get well soon!

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  5. Yeah no, no, no, nonono. OUTSIDE. I wouldn't have let them do the inside without sedating me. Gag.

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