Unusual Growth on Salivary Gland

As promised, i shall update on my friend who was warded. he found an unusual lump somewhere behind his ear lobe, and it started growing bigger, being worried, he decided to check it out with the doctor, and it's actually a tumor!! shocked!! the doctor had to test to see if it's belign or malignant (i only got to know these 2 words now, if you do not know, check dictionary.com). doctor advises to remove it before it becomes cancerous. so he was scheduled for a day surgery to remove it, and it sounded simple.. wrong.. the operation took 7 hrs and he woke up in pain, all over the body, who knows what was done to him (his body) when he was on general anaesthesia.
The wound was bandaged up and it seems like a very big cut around the ear right? i guess they really have to open it up wide to take out something as big as an egg... so according to him, he now feels that there's this hollow around the ear, like having a tooth missing. a really big tooth.

Oh and if anyone who knows about insurance is reading this, is there any policy where one can claim for a surgery like this? cos it's $7k!! not including ward charges yet... and who knows when would any of us get something similar.. cannot be borrowing from loan sharks to pay for medical bills right?

Today, he went to the doc and got the bandage removed... and he took a photo of how his ear looks like now.. view it at your own risk... if you think you will freak out, please do not click anything and the posting ends here... btw.. no prizes for guessing who this unlucky guy is. and another btw, this thing is called pleomorphic adenoma, i wonder how doctors can remember all these terms.

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