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Head injury created lump: What is it?

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Rusty Shackleford:
A few months ago I was called in to clean a bathroom that potentially had hazardous heroin needles contaminating it.  Towards the middle of the cleanup I was washing the lower part of the wall, stood up, and was hit over the head with a baseball bat.  OK, technically I wasn't hit by a baseball hat but it felt like it.  I actually drove my head directly into the exhaust pipe of one of those hot-air hand dryers.  It hurt like hell, and it bled for at least 24 hours if not more.

That was March.  It has long since finished its halfa** healing, and now I have a spot of skin that doesn't tan like the rest and has fewer hairs growing in it, but the worst part is that I have a permanent lump there.  You can hardly see it, but I can feel it.  My scalp skin is very tight, but I think the lump is actually underneath the skin.  At the very least it is not a lump on the surface caused by scarring.  If I had cracked my skull would it actually heal like that with a lump?

Anyone else get a scalp wound like this?  What is it, and what can be done to fix it?  Are their such things as bone sanders?  (Yes, I would consider doing that if it could return me to normal!)  Can the soft tissue of the scalp make a hard lump like that?  I see a my dermatologist sometime in the future for a routine exam so I plan to ask him.

Rusty Shackleford:
BTW:  I wonder if shaving the scalp make the head more vulnerable to injury because I find myself hitting a lot.  It's like my brain thinks my body stops at the top of my eyes.  It makes me wonder if scalp hair acts a little like a cat's whiskers in that the hairs are constantly responding to wind, nearby objects, and other things and tells the brain what's going on.  With having a bare head I wonder if that information is lost and the brain "forgets" that part of the body exists.

Alexander215:
Sounds like a keloid scar.

TheSlyBear:

--- Quote from: shdwwlk on July 26, 2009, 12:46:29 PM ---Sounds like a keloid scar.

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Thunder stolen!

And yeah, I swear that a bald head attracts mishaps -- or at least it would seem so. There was that time I stood up right into a fluorescent light fixture...  luckily no scarring, but it took a long time to heal.

aarrggh:
Maybe that exhaust pipe is stuck in the back of your head..? Just a thought~might want too check it out  :D

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