Interesting title, yes? I've been feeling more & more self-conscious about something, more than usual anyway. I've got these two hard bumps on my forehead that have appeared in the last 10 years maybe. I had no idea of what they were or why they just appeared. So I asked my doctor about them, finally, a couple of years ago. She didn't think all that much about it, but did a CAT scan which apparently didn't show anything or at least anything serious. Well I had my yearly physical this month and I brought it up again. She said she would refer me to a plastic surgeon. So today was the big day. I go & a very nice doctor comes in, pushes my forehead bumps & says sure I can get rid of those. He says they are ... just fill in any big, long, unpronounsable medical term here ... and he can cut along my hair line & take them out. He said they are like barnacles on the bottom of a boat. Sometimes you just have to take the boat out of the water & blast the barnacles off. So this very nice doctor likens me to a boat..with barnacles...n i c e....... Basically, they are nodes or cysts that grow on your skull.
Long story short, sometime in May the barnacles are blasting off into the sunset. It's outpatient surgery. Nothing too extreme, but still surgery.
And that is why the BLOG title is barnacles and one more thing off my list so I can concentrate on who I wannabe!
When we saw you RECENTLY, I did not notice barnacles on your forehead!!! Are they even noticable or just to the touch? Look at you getting plastic surgery. ;)
ReplyDeleteI can't even begin to think what barnacles you are talking about. I think you need to take a before and after picture on this one!
ReplyDeleteJust the 'barnecles' or do u have surprises up your sleeve? I hope we will still recognize you when you are done?
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