Gross Surgery Story
Ok, so it's not that bad, but let me try to paint the picture...
I had a calcified tissue mass in my left lateral deltoid area. Around where the curve of the shoulder meets the arm. Not a big deal, but I was having it removed yesterday. I was lying on my right side while the doctor doing the excision was behind me and the instrument tray was just above my head. Things were moving along pretty quickly; I'd heard the incision go and then some scissor snips. I can tell he's removing parts of the mass and putting them into some sort of receptacle on the tray.
Around this point I hear him say something that wasn't "oops" but essentially equates to oops. Something you never want to hear your surgeon say, but that's not the point, because as he's saying that I feel something small hit me in the back of my head. It feel wet and kinda warm. I hear the nurse say "there it is" but then I can't tell what they did after that, but no one touched the spot on my head where I'd felt something fall. I'm kinda grossed out at this point, but I'm thinking that it's probably just a drop of blood or something, and it's all coming out of me anyway, so how bad can it be.
After what seemed like hours of stitching, the surgeon is talking to me, telling me how to take care of the stitches (which itch like crazy, btw) and then leaves. The nurse is cleaning up all of the shroud and putting a bit of gauze and tape on me, then tells me it's ok to sit up and get dressed. This is the first time I have my right arm free since the whole thing started so I reach up to the spot where I felt something hit my head, expecting to find a big blob of blood, but instead find a solid, yet kinda crumbly piece of me. It was like a salt cube that had some flesh grown into it and had gotten a little wet so it was dissolving. I then went home and washed my hair thoroughly.
I had a calcified tissue mass in my left lateral deltoid area. Around where the curve of the shoulder meets the arm. Not a big deal, but I was having it removed yesterday. I was lying on my right side while the doctor doing the excision was behind me and the instrument tray was just above my head. Things were moving along pretty quickly; I'd heard the incision go and then some scissor snips. I can tell he's removing parts of the mass and putting them into some sort of receptacle on the tray.
Around this point I hear him say something that wasn't "oops" but essentially equates to oops. Something you never want to hear your surgeon say, but that's not the point, because as he's saying that I feel something small hit me in the back of my head. It feel wet and kinda warm. I hear the nurse say "there it is" but then I can't tell what they did after that, but no one touched the spot on my head where I'd felt something fall. I'm kinda grossed out at this point, but I'm thinking that it's probably just a drop of blood or something, and it's all coming out of me anyway, so how bad can it be.
After what seemed like hours of stitching, the surgeon is talking to me, telling me how to take care of the stitches (which itch like crazy, btw) and then leaves. The nurse is cleaning up all of the shroud and putting a bit of gauze and tape on me, then tells me it's ok to sit up and get dressed. This is the first time I have my right arm free since the whole thing started so I reach up to the spot where I felt something hit my head, expecting to find a big blob of blood, but instead find a solid, yet kinda crumbly piece of me. It was like a salt cube that had some flesh grown into it and had gotten a little wet so it was dissolving. I then went home and washed my hair thoroughly.