In the interest of not freaking random and most likely lost visitors out with gooey icky scary closeups of my navel pre-op and post-op. I send sugary sweet pink and blue distracting dashes of lurve to you all with this image of the cherry blossoms in our yard. Cool?

Ho-kay. Now all ye who are not scared of biohazard tattooed navels with stitches in them, you may proceed inside. But let the record show, that I did warn you and I tried bribing you with cute, and you daredevils didn't listen.

Now, the navel that I had last week was a strange one, as if there was a pebble caught in the middle under my skin.

Yeah, that dark little bulge there appeared right after my last laparoscopic surgery, I was hoping that it would go away on its own but it never did. What was it? Did the surgeon leave something behind before they closed the wee hole they had made? Was it a tiny hernia? Was it some sort of giant knot in the stitches? Well, waiting it out didn't work and pregnancy only made it worse. Closeup scary - BOO!

So I finally got myself down to a surgeon, who poked at it for a bit and said "maybe a wee hernia, let's open it up and take a look". Appointments were made and I rolled in for surgery hoping I had made it clear how much I like my ink, and how much I would like to have my old pretty navel back. No worries they said. It'll be fine they said.

And this is what I got. Ugh!

I now officially hate my navel twice as much. Seriously, seven stitches? Isn't that a wee bit much? And he cut into the ink. AAAAArrrghh! So what was it? Just a random abscess, they said. "It's like a pimple, it happens sometimes". OK, this time it 'just happened' while my navel was still in bandages as I was healing from laprascopic surgery performed at MAS - where they have such a good rep of making nice tiny near invisable laprascopic scars. So hey, someone forgot to clean some tools. Or just closed up really bad when they pulled the camera-widget out. Or maybe surgeons can have "bad surgeon days" like I have bad hair days. Or somesuch. *Sulks due to ugly navel*

It used to look good youknow. Here's proof before the lap and pregnancy.