So, my least favorite month is over (hooray!). With April came nicer weather, Easter and an awesome painful excrescence above my right ear.
What's an excrescence, you ask?
Definition: swollen object
Synonyms: appendage, blob, bump, convexity, distention, gibbosity (a favorite), growth, hump, intumescence (another good one), lump, nodule, protrusion, tuberosity, tumor (tumor!)
Last week started out simply enough. I had to work Monday morning, so my mother came to watch the boys. When I came home, she and I were talking when I noticed this gibbosity above my right ear. And it hurt.
To make myself feel better, I bought an adorable pair of shoes online.
I waited until Wednesday to see the doctor. Turns out the protrusion was a cyst. (I was elated it wasn't little spider babies or whatever other horror stories my coworkers told me.) I went in on Thursday to have it removed. An hour of tugging and 10 shots of Novicaine later, I was given an antibiotic, some good pain medication, and was sent home.
To make myself feel better, I blurrily looked at shoes online (those pills were awesome). (And since you're not supposed to make any important decisions while on this medication, I decided not to buy anything.)
Sunday, after the Easter egg hunt in our yard, we decided to go shopping. I remembered stores being open on Easter Sunday in my days in retail. Turns out they aren't open anymore. Wimps. But DSW was! Hey!
To make up for the hour of driving pointlessly around town, I bought a pair of shoes. You know, so the trip wasn't for nothing.
Today, I got an email from DSW, offering a coupon and free shipping. How could I say no? I owed it to myself. I have this growth on my head (which, you know, could have been a tumor - I was practically dead!), my head still hurts, and I didn't get candy for Easter...
So, to celebrate... Monday, I bought another pair of shoes. Yay Monday!
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