In which she is April Fooled twice but on the wrong days

[zeborah]

The first time was on March 31st. I was sitting at my desk at work and I chanced to bend my left wrist, and I said "Oh hey, why do I have something protruding from my wrist? That looks like the end of a bone. I didn't accidentally dislocate my wrist without noticing, did I?" After a little more thought I concluded that this was unlikely, so I started wandering around the workroom showing off my wrist to colleagues. One of them diagnosed an Alien, another diagnosed a ganglion cyst.

(Any stories about how you or a friend of a friend once had a ganglion cyst, aka Bible bump, and it never hurt and it went away all by itself within a decent time period are hereby solicited. Horror stories about aspirations after which the cyst grew back or about excisions gone painfully wrong may kindly go somewhere else. Moreover, that website which reassuringly says "[...] Removing a volar ganglion has a greater risk of nerve and blood vessel damage. However, the vast majority of people have two arteries that travel into the hand. If one is injured, the other is sufficient to provide and adequate blood supply to the hand."? Not that reassuring akshually.)

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Google tried to April Fool me but its link was broken. ...There's really nothing I can say to emphasize quite how pathetic that is.

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This morning (ie April 2nd) I received an email that had arrived just after midnight (ie quite a lot after noon April 1st). It said I was a Slideshare Rockstar! Suddenly one of my presentations was getting a bazillion hits! I should immediately tweet about this with a particular hashtag!

I'd forgotten this was still April 1st to some timezone-n00bs but being curious I went to check the viewcounts and concluded that 10044 and 10037 seemed unlikely. I was trying to find a way to let them know they had a bug in their software when I came across a bazillion Slideshare users expressing extreme dismay at having been convinced to publicly demonstrate their April-Fooledness, particularly since they're professionals (hence the having presentations to be uploaded to Slideshare to start with) with reputations to maintain. Also I found Slideshare running around like crazy saying various versions of "Sorry!" and "We didn't think about it like that!" and "We didn't realise that would happen!" and "Please let us make it up to you!" and "We'll do better next time!" on quite a lot of angry blogs. So that was quite amusing, though, er, clearly not quite how they envisaged the joke playing out.

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Really this cartoon seems to express the modern spirit of April Fools' Day quite well.

Comments

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

Poor you! A ganglion cyst sounds like no fun at all. :(

My experience with cysts is limited to the one that appeared on my eyelid shortly before my wedding day. That was a very Aaarrgh! Get it off, now! moment. Removal was straightforward and though a bit icky for a couple of days, solved the problem and I looked fine in the wedding photos.

[zeborah]

At present it's perfectly innocuous - no pain or discomfort at all, just a lump that sits there and makes itself evident if I bend my wrist. I have told it quite sternly that this size is a good size for it to be and it has no need to try to get any bigger because the consequences of that would make us both sad.

[hrj.livejournal.com]

When I was a teenager I had a ganglion cyst on the back of my knee - about the size of a walnut. Not particularly painful and it went away by itself. I think I had it for about a year.

Just last year I had a ganglion cyst at the base of my left thumb. I'd been noticing it for about a year. Annoying because it got pressure when I grasped things. I actually talked to a doctor about surgery but I wanted to wait several months for optimum scheduling. By the time the surgery would have been convenient it wasn't bothering me that much. The next time I thought about it was when I realized it had disappeared.

[zeborah]

See, this is exactly the kind of story I was hoping to hear, thank you! :-)

[hairmonger.livejournal.com]

I can only tell you a second hand story of a ganglion cyst that went away by itself--after several years--but this friend's was on the wrist also.

Mary Anne in Kentucky

[zeborah]

Second-hand is fine. Several years is... ah well, maybe me and my alien can become friends or something. :-)