# Tattoo Cyst **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 25, 2016, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-cyst/763919 "2016-08-25T15:56:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-cyst/763919/41 "2016-08-31T16:22:21Z")
I’m a nurse, have done my fair share of nasty dressings. I could only watch about 90 seconds of it. Mainly the whole…“go see a doctor…!” aspect. Also I started to think about the smell. That was not a good set of thoughts. Of course I am the person who answered an innocent question “What is your least favourite smell?” with the answer “Stage 4 pressure ulcer starting on the coccyx extending into the buttocks with dark grey drainage where adipose tissue was necrotic and liquefying.” So. Carry on. Is it lunch time yet? ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-cyst/763919/42 "2016-08-31T16:59:21Z")
> [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](#): > > I’m a nurse, have done my fair share of nasty dressings. I could only watch about 90 seconds of it. You need to fast forward to the last minute or so, when about a liter of **pus** comes squirting out under its own pressure. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-cyst/763919/43 "2016-08-31T18:40:10Z")
> [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](#): > > Of course I am the person who answered an innocent question “What is your least favourite smell?” with the answer “Stage 4 pressure ulcer starting on the coccyx extending into the buttocks with dark grey drainage where adipose tissue was necrotic and liquefying.” > > So. Carry on. Is it lunch time yet? Yes. Why did I take a bite just as I started reading that sentence?! :smack:😉 ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-cyst/763919/44 "2016-08-31T18:48:25Z")
> [@Count\_Blucher](#): > > That said, even you were desperate and in bombed-out battlefield conditions, why the Hell would you ever let anyone operate on you or drain any infection out of you with a dirty toe-jam encrusted nail clipper? The same sort as thought that crappy-ass tattoo was a great choice for body adornment? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-cyst/763919/45 "2016-08-31T21:05:18Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > Actually, involvement of alcohol and/or drugs would not surprise me. Probably why he got the tattoo in the first place. Or why the guy doing the tat managed to get him infected like that. Or both. ---
**Author:** ![WildBlueYonder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ce7236/32.png) [@WildBlueYonder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildBlueYonder)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-cyst/763919/46 "2016-08-31T21:10:40Z")
> [@Duke\_of\_Rat](#): > > You need to fast forward to the last minute or so, when about a liter of **pus** comes squirting out under its own pressure. aw that would be the best part!! But I’m not looking again! ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-cyst/763919/47 "2016-08-31T21:20:00Z")
Wait, I may have found a video showing a [less graphic version](https://youtu.be/uYHVMh67K_0?t=3)… ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2016, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-cyst/763919/48 "2016-09-01T06:46:22Z")
I watched it all the way through. Like I said the sight of it didnt bother me as much as the thought of what it must smell like. That and and over riding thought that it is unlikely that even the most idiot of all Canadian Idiots would not do that. We have ERs and walk in clinics for that. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2016, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-cyst/763919/49 "2016-09-01T15:39:36Z")
I am never, ever going to click the link. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2016, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-cyst/763919/50 "2016-09-01T18:09:00Z")
That man must have been septic even before this pathetic attempt at DIY surgery! ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2016, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-cyst/763919/51 "2016-09-01T19:22:50Z")
Still, none of the drainage was grey. Grey drainage is horrible. I don’t usually see it on someone who lives ( or keeps the limb if it is on a leg) ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2016, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-cyst/763919/52 "2016-09-01T19:22:53Z")
With a liter of Pepto-Bismol colored pressurized pus in him…ya think? 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tattoo-cyst/763919.md?page=2)