Resolute
I'm not going to let my defecto-genes get me down.
They didn't get the whole cyst. The interior (lingual) side of my jaw is bulging, slightly forward of the operated area. It's not inflamed, hurting or getting bigger so I'm watching and waiting. The operated area is healing up well, although it's still markedly sensitive to increases in blood pressure. Exercising and singing are either uncomfortable or next to impossible at the moment.
Histology on the removed material came back as a traumatic bone cyst with cemento-osseus dysplasia. A mouthful but the main takeaway? Not cancer. Anything, even if the cyst regrows (which it may), is better than cancer.
I've been wracking my brain trying to figure what type of trauma I incurred. The only thing I can come up with is getting slugged in the jaw by a 500 lb. horror at The Brass Mug, in Tampa, FL. We'd flown down to see Watain on their 2007 tour. It was one of those miserable shows where there are 20 diehards and one super-mega sized asshole. Dude took me, Jeff, Pete Helmkamp's wife and four others out with one drunken swing. His fist struck fairly hard on the left side of my jaw, knocking it completely out of joint. Luckily, the recoil knocked it back in. Sometimes TMJ has benefits.
I thought nothing more of it until now.
Doesn't really matter - all I can do is get them to chop the other side down once it gets too involved.
ANYWAY...
Tuesday at midnight I'll be appearing on 91.7 KVRX UT student radio, banging out some serious metal and talking to the lovely DJ Aila about my varied musical adventures. If you're in the central TX area, tune in!
Wednesday - Immolation and Vader at Emos. Then, next week Friday: Triptykon and 1349 at Emos.
And Hail of Bullets is going to be at MDF 2010 - helllllll yeaaaaah!
It's all good.
They didn't get the whole cyst. The interior (lingual) side of my jaw is bulging, slightly forward of the operated area. It's not inflamed, hurting or getting bigger so I'm watching and waiting. The operated area is healing up well, although it's still markedly sensitive to increases in blood pressure. Exercising and singing are either uncomfortable or next to impossible at the moment.
Histology on the removed material came back as a traumatic bone cyst with cemento-osseus dysplasia. A mouthful but the main takeaway? Not cancer. Anything, even if the cyst regrows (which it may), is better than cancer.
I've been wracking my brain trying to figure what type of trauma I incurred. The only thing I can come up with is getting slugged in the jaw by a 500 lb. horror at The Brass Mug, in Tampa, FL. We'd flown down to see Watain on their 2007 tour. It was one of those miserable shows where there are 20 diehards and one super-mega sized asshole. Dude took me, Jeff, Pete Helmkamp's wife and four others out with one drunken swing. His fist struck fairly hard on the left side of my jaw, knocking it completely out of joint. Luckily, the recoil knocked it back in. Sometimes TMJ has benefits.
I thought nothing more of it until now.
Doesn't really matter - all I can do is get them to chop the other side down once it gets too involved.
ANYWAY...
Tuesday at midnight I'll be appearing on 91.7 KVRX UT student radio, banging out some serious metal and talking to the lovely DJ Aila about my varied musical adventures. If you're in the central TX area, tune in!
Wednesday - Immolation and Vader at Emos. Then, next week Friday: Triptykon and 1349 at Emos.
And Hail of Bullets is going to be at MDF 2010 - helllllll yeaaaaah!
It's all good.
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