Trichilemmal cyst removal / Cyst you be gone, cyst you be gone, get out of my head can't take it!!!

Now that you all have Rainbow's 'Since you've been gone' stuck in your heads, I'll share some photos of a bumpectomy (medical term) I had earlier today. Please read on if you have enjoy mildly gross things, squeamish people, you have been warned!

For those of you who don't know (like me two weeks ago), a trichilemmal cyst forms from a hair follicle and consists mainly of keratine (which normally makes hair) in a 'wet' form. This then grows and doesn't always reach the skin surface. I ended up with three of the the f*ckers, the previous photo is the largest on the top of my head.

A smaller and harder cyst on my crown, not really noticeable but these things grow over time. By the way, my hair has been cut around the cysts and yes I remembered to tip the barber surgeon.

This is a larger cyst on the nape of my neck, again it doesn't look very noticeble from this angle, but just you wait!

Another photo (worse potato quality unexplainable) of the largest cyst on the top of my head. This one has been bothering me the longest, actually caught the f*cker on a guy rope once - it pinged.

All set up and ready to bleed! I'd like to thank the nurse for helping me get the photos, at this point the anesthetic has been injected around the cysts and this one is starting to bleed. Thirty seconds on from this photo, the blood begins to drip down my forehead, hooray.

It turns out, there wasn't enough anesthetic around the largest cyst, throughout its removal my fists are gripping tightly to the sides of the bed. It's a shame this was the only image the nurse could take of this one, when the doctor squeezed this one it popped out and I got to watch it bounce off the floor by his feet.

Just a little hard one to pop out on the crown.

Hah! Told you the neck nape one was worth it! Almost like an eye in the back of my head just dislodged, how gross on a scale of 1 to 10, folks?

Some big stitches in place, but scalps heal quickly due to the large amount of blood vessels in them.

Again, no idea why the image sizing are screwing up, this was a pain to take on a camera phone by myself.

Aaaand my third eye sewn shut. Stitches should be out by the end of the week and hopefully I won't find anymore mole hills on my head for a while! Cheers for sticking it out this far people!

Wild kitty tax.