Following conversation took place yesterday between me and the GP, during bloods test:
Doc [in slightly disapproving Dr Finlay voice]: The only letters I seem to get about you from the hospital are regarding your next holiday.
Self: OK, take a look at this (points to unsightly and painful lump on wrist) I seem to have been bitten by some evil foreign predator.
Doc: Doesn't look like a bite. Seems to me more like a ganglion.
Self [horrified]: A f***ing WHAT???
Doc: Ganglion. The traditional Scottish remedy is to drop the family Bible on them from a great height. Contemporary medical wisdom is to leave them alone.
Self [weakly]: I'll stick with the contemporary wisdom...
Isn't "ganglion" a fabulous word? Seems to me like the verbal equivalent of the Platonic Ideal - like "Prime Minister", it sounds just as hideous and vile as it actually is! I suppose the first rule of cancer is NEVER to say "well, things can't get worse..." - because they always can...
Off for a gin and tonic and a stern conversation with my ganglion...
Cat x
Your Dr was right it is also known a a "bible bump" meaning to bump or bash it with a bible. I assume this was meant to take it away. I think you should just keep it till it gets better.
hi cat i had a gangilon on my wrist several years ago & my dr said the same thing about the bible my ex in his wisdom decieded that he would help me in my hour of need but decieded that a bible might be a little to heavey so picked up a vidieo case [can you tell it was a long time ago lol] & without warning wacked my wrist lots of expletives later the gangilon was still intact though can't say that my wrist felt that way in the end it went the same way as my ex on its own lol. so leave well alone you could read the bible to it or put on a dvd lol a lot safer take care love n hugs theresa xxx
