I’m going with @brossa’s formulation. It sounds far more heroic.
You have my sword!
And my bow!
And my axe!
Hmm, remind me not to consult you should I need a cyst lanced. Although I have never tried it, I would imagine patients respond poorly to their doctor entering the room to the strains of Hail The Conquering Hero. “Weighing in at 140 pounds, from Hollywood California….” (Enters room, waving giant flag)…
Yeah, I really don’t want to see a pimple for which proper treatment would involve an axe…
When I was in basic I had something like this happen, except I didn’t consult with anyone. I got an infected spot on my arm where we had been getting shots. It got bigger and redder and really started to hurt, but I didn’t go on sick call because I didn’t want to be accused of malingeing. So I got soap and water and all the other stuff and a needle. I went into the bathroom and just barely pricked that thing. I wish we had YouTube in those days, as a trickle of black and green stuff started down my arm. I just stared at it, but the gal at the sink to my right took one look and screamed her head off. I squeezed until I got clean red blood, the cleaned it up and put a bandage on it. I felt better at once, but the next morning at roll call my drill sergeant wanted to see it because the other gal had told her about it. By then it didn’t feel bad. It did start to come back a little but I treated it again, in private this time, and it healed up.
I don’t know about @RivkahChaya , but in the cases I described, what came out couldn’t be described as “a trickle”. It was thick goopy stuff, about the consistency of toothpaste.
Not an axe, maybe, but a polearm, sure. To stay out of the splash zone. Skin popping + low body fat → subfascial abscess under significant pressure → something like this nonmedical but evocative example.. Fortunately, face shields were worn that day.
I had read that pimples, etc. should only be popped if they are fairly protruding in such a way that you can be confident that squeezing them will only make stuff come out - as opposed to being driven further deeper into the flesh, which can happen if you have a relatively flat, broad pimple - which can make for a deeper, worser, flesh infection.
Not quite toothpaste-- more like potato soup. And definitely infected, as it was whitish, but completely opaque.
Never eating potato soup again. * shudder *
I don’t like cutting up olives for cooking because (TMI, you was warned) our cadaver in Gross Anatomy had a heart and aorta full of chunks of broken down clot that looked just like (hurk) chopped kalamatas. (/hurk)
Well, they don’t call it Boring, Inoffensive Anatomy.