I think the colorless version is much better, I don’t know why. 🤔 Maybe because everything has bled? The paper

The paper quality is not good for watercoloring since it absorbs too much water.

Anyway, this is just for practicing so it doesn’t have to be exhibit-level.

Meanwhile, my surgeon said what I have is lipoma and not osteoma. If this is osteoma, then he will not touch it because it’s bone, unless I want to go through the complicated process of chiseling my bone to flatten it (sounds horrible).

Good thing is it’s just lipoma = fat. My surgeon will just do an open incision over the lipoma and simply remove the fat. The other method is to do the incision along my hairline and lift the skin off the muscles and suck out the fat cells—or something like that. I didn’t hear the rest of the explanation because I was already cringing at the thought of going through that complicated process. I’m less vain now that I’m almost 45 years old and little scar on my forehead will not lessen my value as a person so I’m opting for the direct incision. I don’t want to complicate things.

This is the same thing when I opted for my gall bladder removal. My then surgeon asked if I want laparoscopy so that won’t have a huge scar on my upper abdomen. I said nope, cut me up, Doc, because complicated methods would just cause more trouble. Well, good choice because when the surgeon opened me up, the gall stones were already blocking my bile duct so he would end up directly cutting me up open anyway. I saved my insurance company money and saved me a ton of problems post-operation.

So yes, I will just go for the direct incision over my lipoma. It will just involve local anesthesia and will be done as outpatient. However, it would have to be done at the OR because it will be bloody, he said.

He warned me though that there will be a scar. I said it’s fine. I have lived with my chicken pox scar on my forehead for 40 years (I scratched a chicken pox lump because it was itchy when I was 4 years old) and it didn’t give me self-esteem issues. Then he checked that chicken pox scar and he said, ah, we can smoothen that out with fillers!

There you go. 😁

I would have to go back to him in two weeks. Right now we’re draining my ear of the fluid that got stuck after my diving trip. Covid (or rather the colds that came with it) caused inflamation or closed off the canal that would have helped drain the fluid. So he just gave me medicine to loosen thick mucus for two weeks before we begin prepping for my lipoma surgery.