Appointment with Surgeon

Well, It looks like the Moo is recovering fine.

As you may recall, the last time I went to the surgeon, he discovered some packing that was left in there from when I was in the hospital (gross). This time, he was happy to see how much the wound has improved, in fact, it's all closed up now. There's still a bit of swelling and irritation around it, and he's guessing that's what's causing all the pain in my arm. If it doesn't improve in a couple weeks, or at any point gets worse, I should call him, but he doesn't seem concerned.

He did mention that he doesn't know for sure what caused this, but he's guessing it was a cyst on my lymph node. Typically in cases like that, they like to remove the entire cyst. Because mine was so drastic, it was necessary to immediately drain it, so they didn't ever actually remove the cyst. It's possible that the infection itself ended up breaking down the cyst so it's all a moot point (or a "moo point", which is where the title of this blog came from - Joey [in Friends] not knowing the difference and all). But, there's a possibility that this all started from a cyst and that the cyst is still in there. Which is fine, unless it gets infected again. So, basically I have to keep an eye out, and if I ever notice and swelling again, I need to go in right away and have the cyst removed.

John is happy that I have the ok to use soap on my armpit now.

I am happy I no longer have to put gauze on it. I will be REALLY happy when I can shave it again. The muscles are all weird around it still so even if I was comfortable with the idea, it's impossible to create a flat surface. Aren't you so excited to know that???

In other news, I still haven't put up any Christmas decorations, and I seem to have lost my hard drive that contains ALL my mp3s. This is a LOT of music (I'd guess about 40 gigs). I'm hoping it never made its way into the hospital and was left there. This would be extremely tragic. There are no words.