On the day of the surgery, the doctor told me that the procedure will take about 30 minutes. They used local anesthesia. I felt a slight burning sensation but then I didn't feel a thing. After sometime I started feeling excruciating pain. I felt like some animal had torn me open and was eating my flesh. The sound of Mozart music playing in the operating theater was overpowered by the conversation of doctor and the nurse. I could hear them talk about the rapid blood loss. I bore the pain for about 20 minutes and after over an hour my "Lipoma" was out.
Doctor told me that the Lipoma was deeper than he had expected and it had some blood vessels feeding it, that caused the blood loss and hence he had to move quickly which caused the pain. The Lipoma seemed like a piece of sweet and sour chicken piece. He said that he was going to send it to the pathology lab for testing and that I was good to go.
I came home and after 4-5 days of pain and inconvenience I got "better".
Saturday, July 26, 2008
The Lipoma
I had a cyst on my back for over 8 years. I had shown this to doctors numerous times and each time the answer that came was - "It is nothing just a lipoma. You can get it removed if it bothers you but if it doesn't, I wouldn't recommend removing it." Things went on fine until a month ago when the size of "lipoma" started growing rapidly and it started hurting a lot.
I showed this to a physician who inspected it and claimed it was a lipoma but he referred me to a surgeon to remove it. I wasn't worried about it as the pain started subsiding. The surgeon of the hospital said that it will not be until 1-2 months that they will be able to do the surgery as the hospital was in the process of moving. I thought there is no hurry, I will wait.
My wife however was getting worried and started nagging me about getting it removed a different hospital. I tried to postpond it but one day she just gave me the ultimatum that either I get it removed some other place or she will leave the home.
I called the Evergreen hospital in Kirkland and got the appointment with the surgeon who looked at the "lipoma" and scheduled the surgery after few days.
We were relieved...
I showed this to a physician who inspected it and claimed it was a lipoma but he referred me to a surgeon to remove it. I wasn't worried about it as the pain started subsiding. The surgeon of the hospital said that it will not be until 1-2 months that they will be able to do the surgery as the hospital was in the process of moving. I thought there is no hurry, I will wait.
My wife however was getting worried and started nagging me about getting it removed a different hospital. I tried to postpond it but one day she just gave me the ultimatum that either I get it removed some other place or she will leave the home.
I called the Evergreen hospital in Kirkland and got the appointment with the surgeon who looked at the "lipoma" and scheduled the surgery after few days.
We were relieved...
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