Had another ticklish procedure today.

[Aristus]

Not ticklish for a trained surgeon who has done a residency and everything.

But kinda ticklish for me. I excised a lipoma, or a collection of fatty tissue, usually benign, from a patient's scalp.

You have to be careful around the scalp since it's so highly vascular. Lots of bleeding. I kept dissecting and dissecting, trying to find the core of this thing. I was just about to give up when I struck the motherlode.

I kept extracting all this fatty tissue; I thought I'd never be done.

I finally finished, and sutured him up.

But it was, you should pardon the pun, a little hairy...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Good for you, my dear Aristus!

Yeah, scalp wounds bleed like a son-of-a-gun.

Sounds like it was BIG.

Ya done good!

[applegrove]

2. Was be great to be able to problem solve and help people every day.

[madinmaryland]

3. I'm not sure what WS would say about scalping someone!

[olddots]

4. I had to take pain meds to read your thread

[marzipanni]

5. I hope it wasn't anywhere near as challenging as

the one I just saw when I googled images of "strange growth on scalp". O_o

[Arugula Latte]

6. Is there no end to the weird crap that can grow in/on humans?

I keep hearing the weirdest stories ...

Good for you for getting that sucker out.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

7. If I had a cold one, I'd offer it to you.