A pain in the………….

…………..back.  HUGE pain.  Large cyst.  Enormous cyst.  Right…in…the…middle…of…my…back.  Between my shoulder blades….on my freaking spine.

Pain.  Hot, burning pain. 

Swelling.  Immense cyst that resembles another head trying to grow out of my spine.  Imagine birth, without a vagina to pass through.  No hole in which to exit.  That is my friend the cyst.

Did I mention pain?

So, off I go to the doctor, after Bill has informed me that it is ready to be lanced.  LANCED!!! ON MY SPINE!!!

I sat on the exam table and assumed the epidural "mad cat" position, got several needles in my back to numb it all up, then Dr. Ralph picked up a scalpel and cut the cyst out.  DID I MENTION IT WAS ON MY SPINE????

I sit here and can feel the last of the lidocaine ebb away from the sutured crater that remains on my SPINE!! and can tell that I need more than the 500mg of Tylenol that I popped a few minutes ago.

owie