Damn I've got some sort of cyst

[TrogL]

It's been X-rayed and it isn't the kind that forms around a foreign object.

The doctor lanced it to see if it was sebacious - no such luck.

My mother said it might be some sort of fatty cyst.

The doctor said a plastic surgeon will have to remove it.

It's in a really bad spot, in the web between two fingers - and I've got concerts to play.

It has to come out because it's getting bigger and it's getting in the way of my playing and it's a nuisance.

[brainshrub]

1. Good news! You're now ineligible for the draft. (nt)

[Renew Deal]

2. 2 questions.

Is it on your ass and is your name Limbaugh?

[DemoTex]

3. What instrument do you play, Trogl?

Could the concerts exacerbate the problem? Do you have the four cardinal symptoms of inflamation (rubor et pallor cum calore et dolere)? That's what I remember from Latin. Redness and swelling, with heat and pain?

I had an infected sebacious cyst on my left earlobe in 1966. It was a bitch. Rubor et pallor, cum calore et dolere, beaucoup dude! Campus hospital with a college doc performing the surgery. Shakey Doc, they called him. Reeked of stale bourbon.

[TrogL]

4. I play keyboards

No redness. The skin over it is a bit white, but just from being stretched. It looks kind of grey underneath.

No swelling, just a lump that's very slowly getting bigger.

No heat, no pain. It's just annoying and gets in the way.

I've had sebacious cysts before on my earlobe and cheeks.

[DemoTex]

5. Hmmm. Not good for a keyboard player.

Take care of it sooner, rather than later. See a specialist. DO NOT LET A GP FUCK-UP YOUR HANDS! That happened to my middle brother. He was a rock-guitarist until a hand injury and an Atlanta quack ended that gig. He still blows a mean harmonica, and frames houses in the blistering heat.

[dreissig]

6. Rubor and Pallor

Rubor and pallor are opposites. The one you are looking for is tumor.

Calor = heat; rubor = redness; tumor = swelling; dolor = pain.

[DemoTex]

7. Seems that you are on the spot with your Latin, my friend!

If rubor is redness and pallor is paleness, we have a failure to communicate as Strother Martin ("Cool Hand Luke" warden) would say. Thanks for the correction to my 30-year old Latin. I took two years in high school and two quarters through a correspondence course from University of Georgia while in Vietnam. Kept me out of the bar.