For at least thirty years I have had a golf ball size cyst on my back. It never hurt and I was able to just ignore it. About 17 days ago it started to hurt. Clearly it had some how become infected. As each day went by, it hurt worse and worse. The last ten days or so it felt like someone had stuck a lit cigarette in it. While working to get a treatment for it, my wife would apply a warm bath cloth to it and Neosporin. It made pain manageable. I took nothing else for the pain. Surgeon removed it, leaving a lemon size, one inch deep hole in my back. It is an open wound that has to heal from bottom up. Each day my angel of a wife removes packed gauze from the wound and re packs it with fresh gauze. We are on about day five of this process. Pain is only about a 3 or 4 at this point. I only take a pain pill and hour or so before each re packing because pain ramps up during the process.
Here is a picture of it prior to stuffing new gauze into it and covering it with a new bandage. So far, so good with the healing process.
Here is a picture of it prior to stuffing new gauze into it and covering it with a new bandage. So far, so good with the healing process.
