Welcome to the land of the uninsured ...

Yes, two days after I officially no longer have health insurance, I of course need to see a doctor, so take myself to the local ER ...

Where I'm lucky to wait only an hour before I'm placed in this room:

Containing this rather creepy drawer:

Tongue blades ... ???

Before I'm finally seen by a very, very rushed ER doc who examines me literally before I have the chance to tell her what's wrong.

Well, there's some black there ...

Ya, it's the stitches.  I just had a cyst removed on Thursday. 

Stiches ?

Ya.  Two of them.  Because of the cyst.

Oh.

After she snips and removes one of my brand new dissolvable stitches ... and boy did that fucking hurt ... all is well.  No infection, and the whole thing only cost me a hundred and fifty bucks ...