Which One of these is not like the other...

So, for the past few weeks I have noticed that my wrist has an interesting little bump on it- not too huge, but it's there. See the difference?

Then last week, it started to ache.  A little at first, and then a little more.  So, I googled it (PS- Google is my best friend!) It's a cyst... great!  The nickname is "Bible Bump".  So, I thought, that doesn't sound too terrible.  I mean, something you get from reading the Bible too much can't be a BAD thing!  Like God is going to punish me for using my Bible?? 

Boy, was I wrong... the nickname isn't based on how you get the cyst- it's how you get rid of it!  OH LORDY!!!  Before we were blessed with modern medicine, pain relievers, and microscopic tools to perform laser surgery, if you had a ganglion cyst, you would take the heaviest book you had at home (usually your family bible) and SMASH it down on the cyst so that it would rupture.  UMMM- I don't think so!  The only other alternative is to have it surgically removed which has a 40ish percent rate of returning, and a 100% chance of leaving a massive scar on my arm.  Of coarse, I can always choose to live with it and use it as a reminder that if I had been using my family Bible as literature or some sort of, oh I don't know, life how to manual instead of a book end- maybe just maybe I wouldn't be growing another thumb out of my left wrist....

Food for thought.