A lipoma .. latin root LIPO... aka FAT is a Fatty growth.
It is basically a ball of fat that grows abnormally somewhere on your body. That's why I called him a FATHEAD!
Thanks "Teach"
... You sure are swell!
Oh oh oh I almost forgot to include.. Get well quick Bro..
A SCIENCE teacher at that!!
I always wanted to take Latin but it was never offered anywhere... so I picked up things along the way. (It's how I teach my students to learn scientific words too)
You know as soon as I read "LIPO" I was oh hell, I know what we're talking about...
I think I have one on/in my back. Just a weird mass, had the vet take a look at it and she was nonplussed so yeah, guess it's nothing.
Also had a burly little ganglion cyst on the back of my hand, my ex-Military Medic/current doctor fixed it with the physicians desk reference... I sh!t you not.
He Said "just lay your hand flat on the table" (it was on the back of my right hand)
I said "what?"
He sighed and repeated himself adding "now don't move."
WHAM! Desk reference came down with a little force, and the cyst was all gone. Best $5 co-pay I've spent yet. He's the same doc that told me to "quit whining, take some ibuprofen, and stay off your foot when possible" when I dislocated and reduced two of my own little toes on my right foot and fractured a metatarsal...
Basically there was nothing for it, pain was rough for awhile, I refused the narcotics, so Ibuprofin it was... I miss Doctor Bennett... Old Crusty purple heart awarded doc with a Titanium leg. His got shot off in some foreign land serving his country. Not enough of his type left.
Now I am afflicted with some vegetarian woman who I swear to god looks closer to death on any given day than most accident victims.
I need to find a doctor I trust and like...