The Last of the Lump?

On my other blog that I've had for years before starting this one, I have reported ad nauseam about the lump in my throat.  I'm not too sure if I ever talked about it in this blog.  So, in case I haven't, here's a short synopsis:  I developed a very large, very noticeable lump in my throat about three years ago.  I went to many doctors and none of them new what the heck it was but they immediately wanted to cut it out.  I wasn't too down with that so after I graduated this past May, I went to a specialist and he diagnosed the lump as a birth defect that was aggravated by my septum that was deviated when my nose was broken by accident in PE!  Thus, I had the surgery to correct my nose which is supposed to stop the lump from being inflamed and enlarged.  Rooohaa.

Even though I've talked about it a lot, no one's ever actually seen the affliction I've described so exhaustingly.  Because I like to share and I'm not afraid to reveal myself in the worst of ways, I thought I'd show you the lump in all its glory.  I took a picture every few days to show lump slowly decreasing in size.  I think the before and after is pretty stark.

Click on the "Read More" link below the "You Might Also Like" icons to see the grossness!  Thanks.

Note:  You'll have to excuse my appearance in most of this shots.  I usually took the pictures right before I went to bed which would explain the bad hair.  And in the first shot, it was like the day after surgery so I was nice and plastered and shiny.  Enjoy!

AND if that wasn't delicious enough...from another angle:

















And because I don't want my last picture to be so terrible, here I am feeling better

I hope everyone has a better understanding of what I went through having that thing attached to my neck, how embarrassing it was and how it really hurt my already low self-esteem.  It's like, really?  Really?  I already feel like crap about how I look and sound and act but let's go ahead and throw on a goiter for good measure.  FML.

The lump is still there although clearly not as huge and obnoxious as it used to be.  Hopefully it will continue to go away completely in time.  And hopefully it will never come back.  I mean, that was the point of the awful surgery I had to endure a few months ago.  Here's hoping all will turn out well!