- Hey guys, welcome back to the Dr. CliffAuD vlog.
This is vlog number 82,
and I bet you know what I'm gonna talk about today.
I'm actually gonna be talking
about my procedure that I had done on my lip,
if you've been following me on Instagram
or on the YouTube stories,
you would have seen some of this footage already,
but basically let me kinda just rewind.
So when I was on vacation,
not this past week that we just got out of,
but the week before that,
my little cyst that I had in my lip
was starting to grow bigger and bigger
to the point where I thought
that we were gonna have to cut our vacation short
to come back home and get it cut out.
Fortunately, they didn't have time to get me in
during that vacation week,
during the end of the vacation week,
so we waited until this past week to get it cut out.
And I ended up going in on Wednesday afternoon,
we had to shift some patients around
and open up my schedule,
but ended up going in and having this procedure
to have this cyst removed from my lip.
Now, I think it's called a mucocele is what it is,
but basically, it's when one of these little nodules,
you know, and everybody has them
if you feel around in your lip,
when they get swollen or inflamed or whatever,
they turn into a cyst and you have to get it cut out.
I tried to go the route of getting it injected first,
that did not work,
so we went ahead and ended up having the procedure done.
And so when we went in,
and I actually kind of a funny story to tell you,
not related to this, but to something prior to this,
but when we went in, they were getting me all prepped
and they injected me full of lidocaine
to kind of numb everything up
and then they left for a few minutes.
And at some point, Ashley, my wife asked me
if I was nervous about the procedure,
and you know, (laughs) to kind of, I told her no, of course,
and then I said, you know,
I cut my own cyst out of my chin before
and so the story goes that when I was,
I think it was junior year
going into senior year of high school,
I had a cyst growing, like right here on my chin,
and I thought it was like a zit, you know?
So I was like, oh, I would always try to pop it
and like nothing would ever happen,
and you know, kinda had like this
like little dark under skin spot there,
it wasn't like a traditional zit,
but I was like, man, what the heck is that?
And I ended up, I had no idea what it was,
but I'm like, you know what, I'm gonna find out.
So what did I do?
I grabbed an ice cube, I grabbed some neosporin,
I grabbed a kitchen knife, I sharpened it first,
and I grabbed a pair of scissors.
And so what I did is I went into the bathroom
and you know, don't tell my mom
because I believe they still have the knife and scissors
that I use to cut this thing out of my own chin with.
And so what I did is I numbed up my chin with the ice cube,
I took the kitchen knife,
I slid it open probably about a half inch or so,
I popped the cyst out of the skin,
so there, it was like,
it was kind of like a rubbery, weird.
Anyway, so I popped it out of my chin
and I took the scissors and I cut it
and it hurt like really bad once I started cutting it,
like, oh my gosh, this is horrible,
and then I was like, well, you know what?
I've already got it this far,
so I just freaking, I just cut it, man,
I just cut it out of my own chin,
and then I shot a bunch of neosporin inside of it,
put a bandaid over the top of it,
and fortunately I didn't cut any kind of like a facial nerve
to give me like numbness,
and it didn't end up scaring really bad,
I don't even know if you can see it anymore,
but right there, that little white spot right there,
that's the scar from it.
And so, you know, I think I did a pretty good job
for doing some self surgery.
So when it comes to someone else actually numbing me up
and someone who knows what they're doing
performing a procedure on my lip,
I think I'm totally okay with it.
But obviously you can see the results of this,
here we are, what day is it?
It's Saturday night right now,
so Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday,
so three days ago, little over three days
'cause it happened in the early afternoon
and it's starting to heal up,
but you can see that there's a lot of bruising right there.
So I'm not gonna be recording
any like actual formal videos this week,
and I'm just doing this vlog.
Obviously I can talk pretty well,
it's still a little swollen right there
I've gotta be careful not to split the lip,
I've been putting Vaseline on it, chapstick on it
over the course of the past couple of days
to kinda keep the lip hydrated
because it is so swollen I don't want it to split.
And then I had four stitches inside of my lip.
The top stitch broke off,
but the other three stitches are still in there
so it's holding the, you know, the lip together.
I don't feel inclined to go get that other stitch put on,
it's not really bothering me, I feel it a little bit,
but I think it'll end up healing fine
hopefully I'm not wrong about that.
But anyway, lip procedure is done,
it feels a whole lot better not having that in my lip
hopefully everything heals up nicely, it should.
I really wanna be able to record next week
and without a significant amount of bruising
or swelling happening with my particular, with my lip here.
So pretty rough week overall, (chuckles) I would say
given that I had that procedure done
and I still went into work each of the days.
I'm a little bit behind in video content
just because my other audiologist
has been out sick Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
So I actually went in, I was in the office all day, Friday,
so I've been having to fill in a little bit there
so I didn't have as much time
to get things done as I really wanted to,
but I'll survive, I'll be okay.
Nonetheless, I did promise you guys
that I would show you some footage from my vacation,
so here I'm gonna roll that footage as I'm talking here,
but it was our 13th wedding anniversary,
we went up to Flagstaff.
I had some, you know, miles or credit card points,
whatever you wanna say
that we used to book a hotel for the week,
so that didn't really cost us anything,
which is really nice.
We ended up going out to eat at a couple of fancy places,
which was really nice.
But at the end of the day, I've just learned about myself
that I'm kind of more of like a,
I'm a Midwestern kid at heart
so I just like going to steak restaurants, things like that,
I'm not as big of a fan of the fancy type restaurants
as maybe my wife Ashley is,
but otherwise if we're out on the trails
and running around and things like that,
that's what we really like.
We were able to take a like a half day
and go down to Sedona
and run on our favorite trail in Sedona
so that was really fun.
We were able to take our dog, Charlie with us,
which was also really fun.
And then, you know, the rest of the time
we spent just kind of hanging out in Flagstaff,
going to eat at restaurants,
and finding trails to go hike on.
So it ended up being a pretty fun week up there
and it was good to get back though.
I mean, I really am a routine individual,
I don't really like to be out of my element a ton,
so I'm glad to be back, glad to be back in the office,
glad to be, you know, making some videos again, of course.
And I of course look forward to the next vacation we go on,
if we can go on our next vacation trip
because of the virus kind of picking up steam again.
But nonetheless, other than that,
hopefully this next week is a much better week,
hopefully this all heals up and doesn't give me any issues.
And I have to go in on Thursday, I think,
Thursday morning to get the rest of the stitches out
if they don't all, you know, bust out before then,
hopefully they don't.
But nonetheless, that is it for this week's vlog guys.
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