Stitches, Yuck

Well Lloyd was bit by a spider 7 years ago. Yes seven. All was fine until a couple of months ago when it abscessed. Okay it was getting the start of the hunchback of notre dam. We went to the doctors and the drained it, packed it, and covered it. Gave him some antibiotics and we were on our way. We had to go back 3 days later for them to take packing out and check it. Great Doctor the 2nd time! he explained as soon as it was healed we needed to have the cyst removed or it could happen again. We actually had been talking about having it removed before it even had abscessed. So we made a date with the surgeon to have it removed. All done on a out patient basis and to come back in 12 days and have stitches removed. Okay i am not great with stitches so my first comment when i had to look at it was "Looks like Frankenstein". I'm sure my husband was not happy to hear that but they put these half inch long stitches in and there were 7 of them. I am thinking there are smaller stitched inside the wound and these huge ones were just to hold it all together while it healed. If not that doctor was BAD! So here it is, yes that's my thumb to tell you how large it really is. About 2 inches in length! He took out about a quarter size cyst and we are still waiting on the biopsy results. Maybe Wednesday they will be in when he goes to get the stitches out!