Strange lumps
I was about ten, and spending the afternoon at a school friend's house. We were in the kitchen, and for reasons that now escape me he had his tracksuit top by the sleeve and was spinning it around in a circle. Faster, faster...whack, the metal zip caught me on the side of the head just in front of the right temple.

The damage wasn't too bad -- a cut, quite deep but only an inch or so long and there was a lot of blood. It wasn't the first time I'd split my head open (I was a clumsy kid) so I was pretty calm and didn't make a fuss. It stopped after a while and I went home.

Odd thing is, as it healed the scar turned into sort of lump about an inch long and half an inch across. And it didn't go away. After a couple of years, it had shrunk enough that you'd have to pay attention to notice it, but it was -- and is, nearly thirty years later -- still there.

I know this sounds like an old man complaining about his gippy knees, but if there's high pressure the whole area becomes very sensitive and often I'll get a headache radiating from that area.

Odder still, press on it and I get a weird 'pulse' sensation that goes up from my temple, over the top of my head and becomes most noticeable at the back/right hand side of my skull.

...and then I wake up in ditch, covered in blood and with £1,000 in cash in my back pocket*.

* this part may not be entirely true.
( reallywittyname veraciously conspues lexiphanicism on, Thu 7 Aug 2008, 16:33, Reply)