Psychotomy

monday i went to the surgeon for consultation (prescrip was before then after this)

he looks at my ass, asks if i’m sure i had a cyst (no, you dumb fuck, i’m making this shit up b/c i like quacks poking at my ass) b/c he can’t see it. after carefully explaining tha that’s probably b/c she LANCED IT nearly 3 weeks back and it’s had time to heal up, he changes to “i don’t see any scarring or anything to even indicate where it was” in the pilonidal area maybe??? i mean, it’s not like i went in and told him “i have a booboo”. I have a freakin’ PILONIDAL CYST. These happen in a very particular area!! THE PILONIDAL!

then he said that since it was only a first instance (he seemed fairly willing to discount the incident a couple years ago that i’m fairly sure was this too) he wasn’t inclined to operate, since it could be months, or even years, before it happened again.

then he explained the procedure to me. There’s the bascom procedure (or bascom 1) which makes a small incision off the side, cuts back over and cleans out the cyst from the inside and seals it up so it won’t get infected anymore. outpatient, 90% of people go back to work next day.

then there’s bascom 2 for those patients where 1 is insufficient. it involves cleaning it out, still, but then “closing” the cleft … basically sewing the top inch of your ass closed so that it won’t get stuff there to infect it anymore. fun, eh?

then there’s barbarism. where they excise the cyst/abcess. this quack wanted to take out a 2″x3″x1.5″ chunk of my ass (and yes, one of those is DEPTH) as an outpatient procedure. he explained how a lot of things were outpatient, they could take out a gallbladder as an outpatient procedure. I CAN REMOVE A HEART OUTPATIENT, YOU DUMB FUCK, IT DOESNT MEAN THE PATIENT SURVIVES OR ITS SMART!!!

when i decide i need to get this fixed (if it happens again, or if i just decide i don’t want to deal with it happenning again) … I’m gonna find a surgeon who’ll do bascom. I mean, the paper I read on it was REVISED 10 years after publishing, already. Hell. THAT revision is nearly 10 years old !!! THIS IS NOT RADICAL UNTESTED SCIENCE! THIS IS MEDICAL SCIENCE!!!

fucking quacks. keep your butchers knives away from my ass.

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