Probably a pearoast
I think I may have previously related the sorry tale of being admitted to hospital with a breast lump that turned out to be a non malignant abcess.
And the total non treatment i then exerienced after it ruptured while waiting for a doc to come and have a look after 8 hrs sitting around twiddling my thumbs.
Cleaning the mess up myself with rough blue paper towels in the toilet, then having to stay overnight as there was no transport to take me to my rural home 15 miles away after midnight and no food available after not eating anything for over 18 hrs, they did find me an apple and a yoghurt, whoopie.
I swore never again.
A year or so later , it came back.
Lump the size of a golf ball, just before i was due to take part in a week long wilderness survival course.

I bought a sterile scalpel and made a very strong salt solution.
Stocked up on painkillers and antiseptic cream.
Grit my teeth, cut the bugger open, drained it, dressed it and went off to play.
Put on a new dressing and cleaned the open wound with salt solution every day.

I have a small hole in my breast now that is a bit of a show and tell party piece, but the abcess has never since come back.
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 1:20, 2 replies)

I want to be invited to that sort of party
But then again, no.
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 9:58, closed)

Ive been told Salt water does nothing
best off using anticeptic next time. Salt water simply makes it painful.
(Dan dan dan They tik urh jerbs!!!, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 12:25, closed)