Removing yet another cyst

Many of you may remember the fatty cyst on my upper left arm.  Over 20 years ago, when it was first discovered, and very small, Baylor College of Medicine said to leave it alone.  Removing it could cause damage to my arm muscles/nerves.  I went to at least two more surgeons and two general practice doctors and they all made the same conclusion.   Over the 20 years this sucker has grown and grown.  I noticed after moving here it had grown even bigger and Dr. Mena measured it at 8 centimeters (softball).  It had its own zip code and SSN.  Mt Vesuvias might have been a good name for this cyst.  It was so large, had to buy a casket and give it a funeral.  I asked why the Texas doctors told me it couldn’t be removed and he said they’re idiots.  Don’t you just love a direct speaking doctor?  Yesterday, I arrived at Parkridge Hospital before 5 a.m. for day surgery.  Dr. Mena said it’s possible the cyst might be cancerous, but he doubted it.  He’s a Christian doctor, I might add.  God protected me.  Although the lab work has not been returned, Dr. Mena said it looked benign.  Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me, all the days all the days of my li-i-i-ife.  There was one tiny complication.  You know if there is one, I’ll have it.  My larynyx spasmed and closed my throat and prevented me from breathing.  I was out cold when all this was happening.  My arm hardly hurts at all.  Whatever they shot into my voice box to relax it, has given me migraines and horrible pain in both jaws.  The nurses said this pain would be worse than my surgery…understatement!!  I was up and down all night with this pain.  Geez.  What a pain!  Feels like I have the mumps.  Maybe I was talking in my sleep and overstimulated my larynyx?  Really?  I’ve got to talk to Dr. Mena because he left before this happened to me.  I want to see why the hydrocodone is not working on this.  Wait, I’m only taking one, maybe I should take 12? I am grateful to have lived through it and that there was  a solution for the problem that feels like I’ve been kicked by a mule and a bull.  I’m also grateful that I was unconscious while I was spasming.  What I didn’t know, however, did HURT ME!  God is good all the time and all the time, God is gooder.

Note:  Dr. Mena told me they don’t give you an injection, just lean your head back like administering CPR to clear the airway.  I don’t understand how your voicebox can do that much damage.  Dr. Mena told me this complication happens a lot.  Keith looked it up online and the article said this was very rare.  Wondered if removing the air tube caused it to happen?  I’m asking Dr. Mena today why he said this happens all the time, when I found out differently.  Get my stitches and drain tube out today!