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Title: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: schild on September 27, 2007, 02:19:44 PM
So I have a cyst on my tailbone. It's disgusting and unnecessary and was put there by the local mormon population. Well, that last part might be an exaggeration but you never know.

I was in the ER for about 3 hours last night and I am scheduling a surgery for next week.

I am going to be under the influence of heavy, heavy drugs for a week or two because it's in such a painful area.

Please excuse my inability to communicate.

Nintendo still sucks a dick.


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: caladein on September 27, 2007, 02:43:23 PM
Surgery bad. Drugs good. That's a real damn toss-up.

Seriously though, good luck! And I at least promise not to put any choice remarks of yours in the intervening period into a sig.


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: Rasix on September 27, 2007, 02:49:36 PM
Please send me any NIS/Atlus review copies you may receive during this time. Thanks.


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: schild on September 27, 2007, 02:50:00 PM
None coming in. Neither has any more PS2 games announced, apologies.


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: stu on September 27, 2007, 02:56:01 PM
I feel your pain.

I had the same thing about seven years ago. Horrible, horrible business. I took some antibiotics and the most disgusting fluids came flooding out like fetid Neopolitan swirls.

Hope the nurses treat you well.



Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: schild on September 27, 2007, 02:57:13 PM
I feel your pain.

I had the same thing about seven years ago. Horrible, horrible business. I took some antibiotics and the most disgusting fluids came flooding out like fetid Neopolitan swirls.

Hope the nurses treat you well.

They do. Nurses tend to have fetishes, they have been good people. I, however, am not taking antibiotics. Apparently it is not infected and quite clean. Just scheduling a quick surgery, that'll ironically put me out of work for 1-2 weeks.


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: stray on September 27, 2007, 03:41:38 PM
Lol, damn. Cyst on tailbone. Good luck! I mentioned that boil I had on my hip awhile back (and being made to feel like a piece of man meat by a couple of geeky indian medical students), but that doesn't compare.


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: LK on September 27, 2007, 05:57:08 PM
Didn't someone post on here a guy who drained a cyst in his cheek that took like 8 minutes? Rather disgusting shit.


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: schild on September 27, 2007, 05:59:00 PM
It took over 24 hours for this to drain. It just stopped bleeding and pussing now. Started about this time last night. But I can sit down again!


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: Signe on September 27, 2007, 06:28:21 PM
Ah... the remnants of your tail.  Soon you will have to have the two wee bumps on your head removed, too, or people will know....  :evil:

Pilonidal cyst.  My father has one and never got the surgery.  He's in his seventies and still suffers from it now and then.

Good luck!  Don't die!  Can I have your stuff?  You'll be up and dancing in no time!  (http://www.realitybbqforums.com/images/smilies/1dance.gif)


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: Oban on September 27, 2007, 07:19:26 PM
Ouch, so what pain killers did they prescribe for you?

Also, have to do this...

Did someone say twitch?


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: Moaner on September 27, 2007, 07:50:15 PM
Shitty.  Hope you recover quickly Schild.  Surgery sucks.

I'm a nurse and cant attest to the fetish thing.   :evil:


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: schild on September 27, 2007, 08:05:22 PM
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I'm a nurse and cant attest to the fetish thing.   evil

Maybe you can't.


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: Sky on September 28, 2007, 06:14:47 AM
It's disgusting and unnecessary and was put there by the local mormon population. Well, that last part might be an exaggeration but you never know.
Mormons invaded your Motherfucking!


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: SnakeCharmer on September 28, 2007, 06:35:45 AM
I think I puked a little bit.

I really could have gone without reading this thread.

Good luck, though


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: Murgos on September 28, 2007, 07:31:45 AM
A guy I worked with got his back stepped on by a bull (he thought that rodeo bull riding looked like good fun).  For about a year he had to go to the hospital every couple of weeks to get fluid drained from the sack (I guess?) around his spinal cord.  The way he described it a pint or so of fluid would just come gushing out.

What I'm saying is, it could be worse...  :-D


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: Grand Design on September 28, 2007, 08:51:43 AM
Since everyone else seems to be well-wishing etc., I'll put on my Dr. Phil hat and say, "Son, you need to get off of your ass more."


But seriously.. enjoy the oxycontin.


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: WayAbvPar on September 28, 2007, 09:36:16 AM
PLEASE make sure you are on TS or TF2 voice chat when you are all hopped up on pain killers. It will be very amusing for the rest of us.


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: Yegolev on September 28, 2007, 09:37:39 AM
Get a rubber donut before you play any more TF2.


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: Mrbloodworth on September 28, 2007, 09:42:11 AM
Get well soon man.

Feel free to document the entire thing, as it may make a good mini-game concept.  :-P


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: Yegolev on September 28, 2007, 09:44:48 AM
Feel free to document the entire thing, as it may make a good mini-game concept.  :-P

That was pretty funny.


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: kaid on September 28, 2007, 11:23:52 AM
The tail bone area is not an uncommon place to get that kind of cyst. Just very very nasty but it has to be drained so it dosn't get infected. Cysts in different areas take different times to recover. I had a nasty one on my throat that was totally disgusting but was drained and healed in a bout 2 days. But things like the tail bone ones probably take longer due to it getting irritated by sitting I would imagine and the glands down there that get backed up take some time to finish oozing out.


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: Sky on September 28, 2007, 11:46:57 AM
Ah, Mr BW has a good idea. Add the 'Schild's Cyst' dungeon to the f13 meatplace mmo.


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: Mrbloodworth on September 28, 2007, 12:15:04 PM
Ah, Mr BW has a good idea. Add the 'Schild's Cyst' dungeon to the f13 meatplace mmo.

Im willing to work on the art!

I see it being done in 2d. Controlled using a wii mote like device.


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: taolurker on September 28, 2007, 12:15:48 PM
This is the first sign of your transformation into Raptor Jesus.

Get well soon so the apocalypse can begin.  :|

Ah, Mr BW has a good idea. Add the 'Schild's Cyst' dungeon to the f13 meatplace mmo.

The design document for this mmo gets better all the time. lol


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: Nebu on September 28, 2007, 12:27:57 PM
Hope you recover quickly. 


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: Sky on September 28, 2007, 01:37:34 PM
Ah, Mr BW has a good idea. Add the 'Schild's Cyst' dungeon to the f13 meatplace mmo.

The design document for this mmo gets better all the time. lol
I hope we can get the guy who did Bioshock's water effects for the pustulance effects.


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: voodoolily on September 28, 2007, 01:49:51 PM
Didn't someone post on here a guy who drained a cyst in his cheek that took like 8 minutes? Rather disgusting shit.

That would be me, and it was the result of a spider bite.

btw, pills taste good with bourbon, honey. Listen to me on this. You can thank me later.


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: Grublet on September 28, 2007, 02:14:00 PM
I'll visit you in the hospital and maybe bring you some more black vodka.


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: Soln on September 28, 2007, 02:32:58 PM
Stop touching yourself.  There.


Get well.  Whenever you want. 


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: Samwise on September 28, 2007, 03:13:04 PM
Speedy recovery.  And remember to save some of the pills for a rainy day.  I also second VDL's recommendation to have them with a bit of alcohol.  It'll kill your liver, but not nearly as fast as it'll kill the pain.


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: Nebu on September 28, 2007, 04:00:32 PM
You guys make me cry.  NEVER ever ever ever EVER take opiates/opioids with alcohol.  It potentiates the respiratory supressive effects. 

This has been a public service announcement.


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: HAMMER FRENZY on September 28, 2007, 06:05:06 PM
mr b and w: You have a website with some of your art on it???


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: Falwell on September 28, 2007, 09:13:20 PM
If you ever had an excuse to get a lazy boy for a computer chair, this is it.


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: schild on September 28, 2007, 10:17:08 PM
If you ever had an excuse to get a lazy boy for a computer chair, this is it.

I think I might get a Steelcase Leap.


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: Trippy on September 29, 2007, 01:09:16 AM
The Leap's a bit clunky -- check out the Steelcase Think. There's also the Humanscale Liberty and Freedom, and of course the Aeron.


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: Falwell on September 29, 2007, 03:07:52 AM
Just make sure the arm rests are wide enough to accomodate a mouse and some movement space and you're gold. You'll never go back to a computer chair. Ixnay on the Steelcase. Go full luxury and sloth.


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: schild on September 29, 2007, 06:20:36 AM
I don't like luxury chairs. Too much soft has me fall asleep at the desk during slower games. The Steelcase Think looks nice. I've sat in aerons, used to have them at Bang & Olufsen, I did not like it.


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: Mrbloodworth on October 01, 2007, 06:30:48 AM
mr b and w: You have a website with some of your art on it???

Yep, it will be up right around the time its done. lol. Between the 9-5, life, and freelance... whatever, i need to finish it.


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: HAMMER FRENZY on October 01, 2007, 08:51:05 AM
bloodworth: You post at any art forums? You have a DA account?


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: Mrbloodworth on October 01, 2007, 08:57:45 AM
Edited.


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: schild on October 01, 2007, 09:02:08 AM
Thread isn't about you, numbnuts. Start your own.


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: Mrbloodworth on October 01, 2007, 09:04:02 AM
Thread isn't about you, numbnuts. Start your own.

He asked, ok..ill just PM it. As your right.

Hows your bum?


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: schild on October 01, 2007, 09:10:59 AM
Hurts. Making appointment for surgery now.


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: WayAbvPar on October 01, 2007, 09:19:13 AM
Your boyfriend must be in mourning.  :rimshot:


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: Signe on October 01, 2007, 09:31:38 AM
(http://www.banglacommunity.com/images/satellite/smilies/flowers.gif)


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: HAMMER FRENZY on October 01, 2007, 09:32:58 AM
hahah sorry schild.


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: Kitsune on October 01, 2007, 11:25:40 AM
Sooo... just as an idle question, here, would a tailbone cyst happen to be a blister at the end of the tailbone that never fucking goes away?  I was idly considering seeing my doctor about it, but if fixing it involves surgery and painkillers and weeks of missed work, I'll cope with having an eternal blister.


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: schild on October 01, 2007, 11:41:15 AM
Sooo... just as an idle question, here, would a tailbone cyst happen to be a blister at the end of the tailbone that never fucking goes away?  I was idly considering seeing my doctor about it, but if fixing it involves surgery and painkillers and weeks of missed work, I'll cope with having an eternal blister.

See. A. Doctor.

You don't want to see the google image picture search of what it can turn into. You have no clue how bad the pain can get. For reals.


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: kaid on October 01, 2007, 12:31:27 PM
Do not screw around with stuff like that. If you have had something like that which has lasted a long time aka more than a month its worth getting looked at. If you get it taken care of sooner rather than later you don't have a weeks worth of work missed and painkillers you may just be an in drain it and leave thing.

I had a nasty cyst on my neck that was embarassing as hell but I kept thinking ah it would go away. So I lived with it for like 4 months. Turns out the doctors took care of it once I finally got sick enough of it to go in and get it looked at in about 2 days and it eliminated a fair ammount of pain and ickyness.



Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: Samwise on October 01, 2007, 02:15:44 PM
I've had a small cyst on my neck since I was 11.  I asked a doctor about it once and he said as long as it didn't get any bigger or start talking I should leave it alone.  So far so good.


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: Signe on October 01, 2007, 03:24:50 PM
Is it one of those subcutaneous cysts, Sam?  Those are just a bit of fatty tissue or something and don't go all weepy and infected, do they?

God, I just LOVE this discussion!


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: Goatdude on October 01, 2007, 03:58:17 PM
See if your surgeon can get some pictures and post them here. I still have the pictures of the arthroscopic knee surgeries I observed a few years back (thankfully not my own knees).


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: WayAbvPar on October 01, 2007, 04:00:00 PM
Any non-linked surgery pictures will get you a swift kick in the genitalia from yours truly.


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: Fabricated on October 01, 2007, 04:48:13 PM
You are a surgical amateur. I've had no less than 3 life-threatening surgeries, one of which kept me in the hospital for over a month of recovery.

Enjoy the drugs, because they are awesome. Morphine is fantastic.


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: Signe on October 01, 2007, 05:26:13 PM
I bet VDL would host the pics on her site!  Anyway... my sister had to have back surgery a while back and was able to watch the entire thing performed online by her surgeon before she had it done.  Surgery seems to be a popular intartube event these days.


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: Samwise on October 01, 2007, 07:47:27 PM
Is it one of those subcutaneous cysts, Sam?  Those are just a bit of fatty tissue or something and don't go all weepy and infected, do they?

That's the one.  No weeping or oozing, just a little hard spot under the skin.  When it first appeared I thought it was an alien tracking device that had been implanted while I slept.


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: voodoolily on October 01, 2007, 08:59:07 PM
I bet VDL would host the pics on her site! 


mmmmmmmmaybe.  :wink:


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: voodoolily on October 01, 2007, 08:59:52 PM
I've had a small cyst on my neck since I was 11.  I asked a doctor about it once and he said as long as it didn't get any bigger or start talking I should leave it alone.  So far so good.

It's your brother.


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: Kitsune on October 02, 2007, 02:35:45 PM
I've got an appointment to see my doctor about it tomorrow.  If I should vanish, know that the risky surgery claimed my life, and that I died cursing Schild's name between the shrieks of agony.


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: Signe on October 02, 2007, 03:39:54 PM
Good luck to everyone with their surgeries.  I have a boo boo on my finger where my new orange pussy caught it with his teeth.


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: WayAbvPar on October 02, 2007, 04:17:52 PM
Good luck to everyone with their surgeries.  I have a boo boo on my finger where my new orange pussy caught it with his teeth.


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Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: Goatdude on October 03, 2007, 03:19:41 AM
Any non-linked surgery pictures will get you a swift kick in the genitalia from yours truly.

Well duh.


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: Yegolev on October 03, 2007, 01:01:59 PM
Good luck to everyone with their surgeries.  I have a boo boo on my finger where my new orange pussy caught it with his teeth.

I'm sorry, I can't do anything with this.  I tried.


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: Kitsune on October 03, 2007, 03:17:47 PM
Well, my doctor visit was a pretty thorough waste of my time, consisting of, "That sure is a cyst.  Welp, we can't do anything about it, needs surgery, twenty bucks plz."  But in fairness, my google-fu has brought me many stories of people who tried non-surgical fixes and had the cysts come back in a couple months, so my early hopes of a quick lancing and some antibiotics solving the issue were apparently naive.


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: schild on October 03, 2007, 03:22:21 PM
That's right. I didn't lie about needing surgery. That said, you need a doctor to diagnose it before a surgeon will even look at it. So that's money well-spent. And yes, google is a wealth of depressing information.


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: Kitsune on October 03, 2007, 03:25:39 PM
Yeah, I needed the referral from the doctor, so it was a necessary step.  Just not a step containing a resolution like I was hoping.


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: schild on October 03, 2007, 03:29:25 PM
Yeah, I needed the referral from the doctor, so it was a necessary step.  Just not a step containing a resolution like I was hoping.

God do I agree with that. At least you're not at the point of nastiness I'm at and mine appeared and got worse within days. Like, bad news bears for me.


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: Broughden on October 03, 2007, 10:35:58 PM
My surgery is scheduled for the 11th of Oct.

Get well soon Schild!


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: DeathInABottle on October 03, 2007, 11:11:26 PM
An ex-girlfriend had a cyst on the back of her neck that..  Uh..  Popped.  Given how disgusting that experience was, I'm going to go ahead and not google anything on this.

Anyway, you've got my sympathies.


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: Reg on October 04, 2007, 01:47:17 AM
In the world of cysts popping is a good thing.  All of the best pain is reserved for the ones that just get huge and infected and don't pop.


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: schild on October 04, 2007, 01:53:33 AM
In the world of cysts popping is a good thing.

So true. The problem ones are the ones that keep refilling, causing pain, and repopping. Nearly every day. I suspect some people here have dealt with this for Years and had no clue. They should call this thing the Geek Cyst.

Quote
All of the best pain is reserved for the ones that just get huge and infected and don't pop.

Yar.


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: Reg on October 04, 2007, 02:14:30 AM
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So true. The problem ones are the ones that keep refilling, causing pain, and repopping. Nearly every day. I suspect some people here have dealt with this for Years and had no clue. They should call this thing the Geek Cyst.
I had my own experience with one like that last summer. It was one that I'd been having to take antibiotics for every six months for the last couple of years. I finally let my doctor talk me into going in for surgery.

They just gave me a local anaesthetic and I was out in about an hour. The worst part was having to go every morning for two months to get my dressing changed. It wasn't just a matter of slapping a bandage on it or I'd have been able to manage it myself. No, the would had to be packed so that it would heal from the inside and not just turn into an empty pocket with the skin healed over it. Shudder.

But wait theres more!

A week or so after I'd been allowed to stop going in for daily dressing changes and been given a clean bill of health the problem recurred. It turned out the surgeon had missed a bit on his first try and that was enough to set it off all over again.

Two weeks later I was back in having surgery again and this time it was much worse. I felt like he was hollowing me out entirely. The second time worked though. I've had no problems now for almost a year.


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: schild on October 04, 2007, 02:41:45 AM
Yea, I'm not going that route. I'm letting them hollow it out and stitch it up. Apparently the way you did it is prone to recurrence that can take months/years. The guy I spoke with knew a good deal about it (would seem) as he was quite familiar with the whole issue and said removal/closed incision, while the feeling would be awkward at first (emptiness stitched over), yielded the best results he'd seen. I go to see the surgeon tomorrow though. I'll gauge his confidence then.


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: Reg on October 04, 2007, 06:01:01 AM
Well damn, sounds like I should have gotten a second opinion then. He was an older guy and I guess he hadn't bothered to stay up to date.


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: schild on October 04, 2007, 06:06:01 AM
There's an even newer procedure called BASCAM or something that involved removing skin from your ass and replacing what's removed and stitching the ass portion shut, but it's elective isn't covered by insurance and is mostly plastic bullshit surgery. Considering most people who get this problem are under 40 or 30, you can get it stitched and still heal.


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: Engels on October 04, 2007, 06:14:50 AM
In the future, when schild is retireing and is ailing from 49 exploding cists, the whole board will be threads about our ailments. Only the SWG thread will shine through the darkness of our maladies.  :-D

Seriously, take care of yourselves :)


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: Grublet on October 04, 2007, 07:24:18 AM
In the future, when schild is retireing and is ailing from 49 exploding cists, the whole board will be threads about our ailments. Only the Britney Spears thread will shine through the darkness of our maladies.  :-D

I fixed that for you and schild.


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: NiX on October 04, 2007, 07:27:42 AM
I get butt sewing for free.


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: schild on October 07, 2007, 10:23:52 PM
So, I went to the surgeon.

Who doesn't want to do surgery. He just wants me to take some antiobiotics and HOPE it doesn't come back. I don't think I trust him. He said the recovery would be hard if he operated.

IN OTHER NEWS, my insurance which covers visits to the ER at this particular hospital has some interesting quirks. So I went to the ER, that was covered by insurance, I haven't even gotten a bill yet. However, I did get a bill from some ER Group based out of Oklahoma City. Emergency Specialists or sommat. And they're trying to charge me $319 for sitting in a waiting room for 3 hours and then getting some pus squeezed out by a blowhard in a labcoat. There are lots of things I'm willing to pay for, but getting charged by two different groups on a visit to one hospital is not one of them.

Should I call my insurance and have them deal with it or should I go to the hospital billing department and yell at them? I'm slightly pissed off at this whole thing. What's the point of insurance and going to a hospital with coverage if I have to pay full price for the doctor?

What the hell.


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: stu on October 07, 2007, 11:27:20 PM
So, I went to the surgeon.

Who doesn't want to do surgery. He just wants me to take some antiobiotics and HOPE it doesn't come back. I don't think I trust him. He said the recovery would be hard if he operated.

IN OTHER NEWS, my insurance which covers visits to the ER at this particular hospital has some interesting quirks. So I went to the ER, that was covered by insurance, I haven't even gotten a bill yet. However, I did get a bill from some ER Group based out of Oklahoma City. Emergency Specialists or sommat. And they're trying to charge me $319 for sitting in a waiting room for 3 hours and then getting some pus squeezed out by a blowhard in a labcoat. There are lots of things I'm willing to pay for, but getting charged by two different groups on a visit to one hospital is not one of them.

Should I call my insurance and have them deal with it or should I go to the hospital billing department and yell at them? I'm slightly pissed off at this whole thing. What's the point of insurance and going to a hospital with coverage if I have to pay full price for the doctor?

What the hell.

Sounds like a lack of communication on their parts. Following it up (calmly, lol) should clear it up.

I think the antibiotics is probly the better route, even though surgery scars can be cool. When I took my antibiotics, I just laid on my side and watched baseball until the cyst popped. The release in pressure was so heavenly and warm I didn't even bother getting up until the smell crept out from underneath the sheets, snapping me out of my euphoric daze. Once it pops though, the result can be a little frightening, 'cus the cyst just keeps pushing out fluids- a lot of fluids. Keep plenty of TP handy.  :thumbs_up:


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: schild on October 07, 2007, 11:42:43 PM
The cyst is almost nothing as it burst on it's own. I can't imagine what antibiotics will do. I suppose I should take them at night and not during the day though. I get my scrip filled tomorrow.

Edit: Also, found a caveat in my health care plan. Trips to the ER are an automatic $300 + 10% of the visit. WEAK. The Health Insurance Industry is the 5th Reich.


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: Reg on October 08, 2007, 12:45:43 AM
Don't play games with your anitbiotics schedule. Take them when you're supposed to.

It's possible that meds will clear it up anyway. I've had cysts had responded well to antibiotics and never came back.


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: Lantyssa on October 08, 2007, 07:12:44 AM
Edit: Also, found a caveat in my health care plan. Trips to the ER are an automatic $300 + 10% of the visit. WEAK. The Health Insurance Industry is the 5th Reich.
At least they pay for some of your surgery sitting around.


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: Signe on October 08, 2007, 08:20:24 AM
Poor thing probably couldn't even sit comfortably.  For $300, he should have had a special comfy chair and maybe a pedicure.


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: Moaner on October 08, 2007, 08:34:46 AM
My advice is to not fuck around and take the antibiotics, but sounds like you were going to anyways.  With all the bursting and oozing infection in a huge concern and the antibiotics work prophylactically.

Confession time.  I had a pilonidal cyst about 5 years ago and underwent a quick surgery.  It was painless, recovery was incredibly fast, and I haven't had a problem with it since.


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: schild on October 08, 2007, 08:37:43 AM
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Confession time.  I had a pilonidal cyst about 5 years ago and underwent a quick surgery.  It was painless, recovery was incredibly fast, and I haven't had a problem with it since.

This mofo refused to cut me.

I'm slightly angry about it.


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: Yegolev on October 08, 2007, 11:09:08 AM
Do it yourself.  You have the pills, just get a knife and some gauze.


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: Signe on October 08, 2007, 11:33:16 AM
There are doctors and nurses on this site.  Have another get-together. 


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: Stephen Zepp on October 08, 2007, 07:30:46 PM
There are doctors and nurses on this site.  Have another get-together. 

Do you really think anyone on this board wants to fly to Arizona to look at schild's butt?

/shudder


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: Furiously on October 08, 2007, 10:45:14 PM
Probably one or two people who might be interested in that here...


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: Signe on October 09, 2007, 06:39:45 AM
Not to LOOK at his butt.  To help by giving him the operation he so desires.  They would do it for their love of hilarity humanity.


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: Stephen Zepp on October 09, 2007, 08:00:11 AM
Not to LOOK at his butt.  To help by giving him the operation he so desires.  They would do it for their love of hilarity humanity.

Yes maybe, but they would still have to look at his butt. I dunno..that's asking a lot!


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: Kitsune on October 09, 2007, 05:07:32 PM
If anyone goes to perform back-alley surgery on schild's butt, I beg of you, for the sake of humanity...

Tape it and youtube the hell out of it.

Just, y'know, have the camera set up to be recording from the side so as to spare the youtube kiddies the sight of crack.


But I found out that some people who'd gone to my doctor got their cysts lanced and cleaned and they went away for good, no resurgence after a few decades.  Only when I went to see my doctor, I got pawned off on another doctor by the practice, and that was the doctor who prescribed me recalled antibiotics and suggested surgery.  So I'm making another appointment and insisting that they give me the right doctor this time; if I wanted some stranger checking out my ass cysts I could go to a clinic for cheaper.


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: schild on October 09, 2007, 06:33:26 PM
Yea, if this thing comes back, I'm getting it ripped out like a fatality.


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: stu on October 09, 2007, 07:10:01 PM

Feel free to document the entire thing, as it may make a good mini-game concept.  :-P

Like Mortal Kombat, only with better graphics!


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: voodoolily on October 10, 2007, 06:36:18 PM
Edit: Also, found a caveat in my health care plan. Trips to the ER are an automatic $300 + 10% of the visit. WEAK. The Health Insurance Industry is the 5th Reich.
At least they pay for some of your surgery sitting around.

If you do the math, isn't it that he actually paid an extra $129 out of pocket (in addition to the visit)? If 10% was $19, the entire visit shoulda been only $190, instead he got gouged for $319. Next time just pay for it yourself!


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: Yegolev on October 11, 2007, 08:58:18 AM
Wait, wait, let's back up so I can do another joke.

Just use your DS stylus on it.


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: WayAbvPar on October 11, 2007, 09:28:07 AM
Biofeedback gaming ftl.


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: Kitsune on October 11, 2007, 02:43:49 PM
I went to my doctor today, my real doctor instead of an impostor.  Instead of just saying, "Yup, it's a cyst.", he got a swab from it to find out what bacteria's set up shop on my ass, then cleaned the thing out.  Allow me to comment here: ow.  I've got two weeks' antibiotics and instructions to soak in my tub, then return after the meds are gone to decide whether it's necessary to cut me up.  He commented that my cyst's relatively tiny and lacking any of the grosser things like subdermal hair follicles, so I'm hoping that I can dodge the bullet of more extensive medical work.

On the weird side, he was asking me about computer things while he worked, and asked whether adding a second video card would speed his computer up.  I figured he wanted to know whether 'the intertubes' would make his 'e-letters' go faster, so I told him that improving the video card would only help 3D rendering performance and wouldn't really help the general computer performance.  Then I found out that he plays Battlefield 2142.


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: Mandrel on October 11, 2007, 06:50:57 PM
I went to my doctor today, my real doctor instead of an impostor.  Instead of just saying, "Yup, it's a cyst.", he got a swab from it to find out what bacteria's set up shop on my ass, then cleaned the thing out.  Allow me to comment here: ow.  I've got two weeks' antibiotics and instructions to soak in my tub, then return after the meds are gone to decide whether it's necessary to cut me up.  He commented that my cyst's relatively tiny and lacking any of the grosser things like subdermal hair follicles, so I'm hoping that I can dodge the bullet of more extensive medical work.

On the weird side, he was asking me about computer things while he worked, and asked whether adding a second video card would speed his computer up.  I figured he wanted to know whether 'the intertubes' would make his 'e-letters' go faster, so I told him that improving the video card would only help 3D rendering performance and wouldn't really help the general computer performance.  Then I found out that he plays Battlefield 2142.
Make sure to send him a bill for your consult.


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: schild on October 11, 2007, 06:52:01 PM
I went to my doctor today, my real doctor instead of an impostor.  Instead of just saying, "Yup, it's a cyst.", he got a swab from it to find out what bacteria's set up shop on my ass, then cleaned the thing out.  Allow me to comment here: ow.  I've got two weeks' antibiotics and instructions to soak in my tub, then return after the meds are gone to decide whether it's necessary to cut me up.  He commented that my cyst's relatively tiny and lacking any of the grosser things like subdermal hair follicles, so I'm hoping that I can dodge the bullet of more extensive medical work.

On the weird side, he was asking me about computer things while he worked, and asked whether adding a second video card would speed his computer up.  I figured he wanted to know whether 'the intertubes' would make his 'e-letters' go faster, so I told him that improving the video card would only help 3D rendering performance and wouldn't really help the general computer performance.  Then I found out that he plays Battlefield 2142.

You got the same advice as me. I don't feel so bad. By the way, you think he got all that shit out of the cyst? hahahahaha wait til day 3 of the biotics.


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: Engels on October 11, 2007, 10:42:56 PM
I will join my brothers in pustules by admitting to discovering an stye today. Grossest thing ever. A fookin ZIT in your eye. GAH.


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: schild on October 11, 2007, 10:59:00 PM
Oh man, I had one of those a few years ago. Worst part is, you just have to tough that shit out.


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: Jimbo on October 12, 2007, 02:40:26 AM
Wow, sorry to hear you have a bad cyst.  We have a great amount of MRSA outbreak over here in Indiana in our wounds (plus some other nasty VRE too), especially in skin wounds.  I've took to telling patients that the MRSA bunny is on the loose biting people as they sleep and causing this outbreak.  Sorry your ED visit sucked, but then again we are the band aid stop.  9 out of 10 we give some pain meds and antibiotic, tell them to follow up with there family doc.  Sure they still have to see the family doc and then go to a surgeon (we can refer to the surgeon...but that is a grey area...FMD's are supposed to be doing that), but at least pain control and antibiotics can be started.  As for billing, it will be one from the hospital, one from the doctor, one from the lab (if they did a culture of the wound).  Wow $300 per ED visit sucks!  Mine is $50 for ED (unless admitted, then it is waived) and $20 for FMD visits ($1000 deductable...sucks big time when I got sick with a GI Bleed).

Soap box:  Don't take narcotics/benzodiazepines with alcohol.  That mix can kill you or end up in the ICU with tubes coming out of every whole in your body.  Also if you do get opioids (narcotic pain medicines) such as codeine, Vicodin® or Lortab®, Darvocet®, morphine, Oxycontin®, methadone, Dilaudid®, or Nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDS) - Motrin/ibuprofen, Celebrex, Indocin, Toradol, watch out for constipation!  I was given Vicodin and Flexeril for a pulled muscle and didn't think anything about the constipation warning (hell I tell my patients about it all the time), thinking I was drinking enough water and fiber.  The resulting bowel movement from narcotics was worse than hurting my shoulder!  And if your tailbone hurts allready, crank up some water and eat some more fiber foods so you don't have that on top of it too!


Title: Re: Minor Surgery and Sucking Wounds
Post by: Yegolev on October 12, 2007, 09:58:06 AM
Wow, sorry to hear you have a bad cyst.

This should be a someecard.