Massaging My Wounds and Re-Discovering Pickle Surprise

It's been two weeks after I had surgery on my damn lumps and, while still bruised and inflamed, I'm feeling a bit better already. Follow-ups with the surgeon have eased my anxieties about why I'm still in pain (editor's note: turns out, your body reacts strongly to getting cut open! who knew). I had been calling it a "lumpectomy" until someone pointed out that that's a specfic operation which…