Early Morning Adventures with a Pair of Scissors and a Jar of Alcohol

[jimkeller]

You know that website whose mission statement reads, "It's our goal to annoy physicians by convincing the average American that they know as much about medicine as the healthcare professionals"? Well, I decided to consult it this morning regarding a minor irritation. I've learned a few things:

1. If the website says, "There's no need to see a

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[hiddentass]

Skin tag? Remarkably good blood supply in those sumbitches. I do tend to keep the feminine hygiene products around just for the purpose of bleeding management do get the multipack next time.

I don't know if it will make you feel any better but this doesnt even begin to trip my "I must lecture on the dangers of..." trigger. Searching YouTube for "ganglion cyst DIY" may make you feel like a far better health care decision maker.

Try some ice tonight and Liquid Bandage will help a lot once the need for direct pressure goes down.

-Tass

(if it was a ganglion cyst DIY excision (actually don't look that up on You Tube, I do it to numb my gag reflex) your health insurance would have likely covered it).

[jimkeller]

Yeah, the reason I decided to go after it myself is because I determined that there was effectively no way it was anything other than completely benign despite the fact that it had started to hurt, and that there was no way my insurance would pay for it precisely because there's effectively no way it was anything other than completely benign despite the fact that it had started to hurt.

I think the liquid bandage should work well tomorrow. The bleeding seems to have finally stopped for the moment...