(Warning: this post is disgusting. Do not proceed if blood and guts bother you.)
For three years, I have had a bump on my head. It started during my last year of law school, as just a little hard bump that I scratched at sometimes. When I realized that it wasn't healing and going away, I stopped scratching at it and tried to let it be. I switched the part of my hair from the right side to the left so that the comb wouldn't irritate the bump, and it healed over.
I went off to Sudan, and then I came back and moved to Gone West, and I had no health insurance, and the bump grew slightly but not dramatically, and it wasn't until February of this year that I showed it to a doctor, who waved her hand and said it looked like a cyst of some sort, and to come back if it changed or started bothering me.
Yesterday it both changed and started itching. It seemed to be... oozing something. (I TOLD you it was disgusting!)
I made my dad look at it, right there on the top of my head. My parents lived in Liberia for ten years. It's hard to gross them out. They dug chiggers out of our feet. They soaked boils until the white center came out. I knew they could handle my head bump.
My dad emptied it of pus until no more would come, but it still itched. And itched. Finally, craning to see it in the mirror, I squeezed and something, um, hard began to emerge. Something that required a tweezers to remove it from my head. It was, from all appearances, a little white bean.
Now I have a little cavity in the top of my head, where the bean came out, and I'm not sure exactly what it was in my head. Options include:
For three years, I have had a bump on my head. It started during my last year of law school, as just a little hard bump that I scratched at sometimes. When I realized that it wasn't healing and going away, I stopped scratching at it and tried to let it be. I switched the part of my hair from the right side to the left so that the comb wouldn't irritate the bump, and it healed over.
I went off to Sudan, and then I came back and moved to Gone West, and I had no health insurance, and the bump grew slightly but not dramatically, and it wasn't until February of this year that I showed it to a doctor, who waved her hand and said it looked like a cyst of some sort, and to come back if it changed or started bothering me.
Yesterday it both changed and started itching. It seemed to be... oozing something. (I TOLD you it was disgusting!)
I made my dad look at it, right there on the top of my head. My parents lived in Liberia for ten years. It's hard to gross them out. They dug chiggers out of our feet. They soaked boils until the white center came out. I knew they could handle my head bump.
My dad emptied it of pus until no more would come, but it still itched. And itched. Finally, craning to see it in the mirror, I squeezed and something, um, hard began to emerge. Something that required a tweezers to remove it from my head. It was, from all appearances, a little white bean.
Now I have a little cavity in the top of my head, where the bean came out, and I'm not sure exactly what it was in my head. Options include:
- a cyst.
- something weird and tropical, probably picked up in Liberia, that is now finished and will go away.
- something weird and tropical, probably picked up in Liberia, that has now spawned and will be infecting my skin in other locations.
- something weird and tropical, probably picked up in Liberia, that has now spawned and will be invading somewhere inside my body.
(Do not underestimate me, though. I do have the bean in my freezer in a ziploc. If it comes back, I need the evidence. These North American doctors need all the clues they can get when dealing with tropical diseases concerning which they generally live in happy oblivion.)
2 comments:
is it a bleeding hole? this seems weird.
very weird.
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