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.
