Surgery Day

WARNING!!! Very unpleasant picture below!!


I wish i could say the excision was pain free, it wasnt!! lol


i remember waking up the morning of my surgery and thinking oh dear, what am i doing? but i forged ahead. my appointment was for 11am, the surgeon had told me it would take about an hour or so.


i go there at 11, and filled out all those random forms they ask you to fill out and sign to basically say the surgeom had explained all the risks and blah blah blag. and then i paid! i piad 12 times the amount it cost me to have the tattoo done in the first place! as i typed in my pin, i really felt stupid at that point for getting the tattoo in the first place. lol


anyways, so off we went to the op room, and it started!


First he gave me a few injection (local anesthetic) to numb the area, i lost count of how many times he popped the needle in to be honest. after a few minutes, he brought out the scalpel and sliced my skin, ahddddd@,mfjbdjbjsbfjbjfb!!!!!! that was what came out of my mouth! the area wasn't numb yet! so we got back to it, after a while it was numb enough to start cutting, i couldn't look so i just turned my face the other way.


i could feel the tug at my skin, best way to describe it? almost like cutting leather! it wasn't painful or anything. after a few mins i looked! oh dear Lord, i nearly passed out! he had taken the tattoo off an all i could see was a huge hole  with fat, blood and all sorts! might as well have been on Dr 90210! anyway it was all done, tattoo was off now can the time to stitch the skin back together.


now i cannot tell you how painful this was!!! the edges were not numb at all and i felt the needle go into my skin a few times, and i cant lie it hurt like hell!!


dissolvable stitches on the inside, and more stitches on the outside than i could bother to count. the stitches were so tight that i couldn't straighten my arm. so it was in this awkward position for the next few days.


anyways heres a picture of my arm all stitched up: