What the F***?

Haiz... Remember my abcess and the minor surgery I had for it? Guess what?

I got sliced up again today.

Don't ask me how or why this happened. I don't know myself. Couple days after I came back from my Malacca trip, I discovered a small little lump just below the original wound. It was much smaller and didn't look as bad, but my mum started me on a course of antibiotics just in case. It went down quite quickly. In fact until about 2 days ago, it had gone completely flat. Then it suddenly resurfaced. So there was nothing else to do but to go and see Uncle A and get it checked out.

He was actually reluctant about removing the thing since I'm supposed to be leaving on Sunday. But after discussing it with my mum, it was decided to operate. He didn't really have to drain it this time. There was no pus or fluid, or none that I was really aware of. As far as I could tell (after being heavily aneasthetised in the leg and lying flat on my back), this time it was mainly snipping and removing of tissue. And this time he could stitch it up, so it definitely wasn't as badly infected as the last time. He showed it to me afterwards in a little container of formalin (which was to go to mum for testing... was that really necessary?? I mean... if it's just a simple infection...). It just looked like little white lumps of (now dead) tissue. Afterwards my mum told me that Uncle A said it was probably fibrous tissue that got infected or the other way around. It's possibly related to the original abcess... I don't know... Mum will look at the thingy tomorrow, or rather her lab techs will and she'll get the results tomorrow.

All this means that I will VERY likely delay my going back to Aberdeen, since the stitches need to be removed in a week or so. (T_T) Just had to send off 3 or 4 e-mails to various University staff to inform/reschedule/ask for further advising regarding various procedures.

Plus it hurts.

I will cry. *haiz*

[Update 15 September 2006, 4.42pm: Yup. My flight's been changed for the 26th. Means late registration, late start in class and rescheduling the MEng interview... (T_T) ]