[Bluntpoint]

From Merck Manual:

Pilonidal Disease

Acute abscess or chronic draining sinuses in the sacrococcygeal area.

Pilonidal disease usually occurs in young, hirsute white males. One or several midline or adjacent-to-the-midline pits or sinuses occur in the skin of the sacral region and may form a cavity, often containing hair. The lesion is usually asymptomatic unless it becomes infected, which is painful.

Treatment is by incision and drainage. Usually, one or more chronic draining sinuses persist and must be extirpated by excision and primary closure or, preferably, by an open technique (eg, cystotomy, marsupialization). Antibiotics are generally not needed.


How many soldiers were shot and patched up and sent back into action during vietman?

[SJackson]

How many soldiers were shot and patched up and sent back into action during vietman?

They were already in. Rush's cyst would have become the military's responsibility to patch up if drafted. They may not have wanted to bother.

[itsahoot]

How many soldiers were shot and patched up and sent back into action during vietman?

Most, but none of them would have been accepted in a draft with those wounds.

The other thing is Rush had a real weight problem, I don't know if that affected the outcome, but it could have been a factor.

Unless you post your own service history, then cut the ChickenHawk crap.

Oklahoma National Guard 1954-1956--Crew Chief m-19 Gun Carriage.

US Army 1957-1960--Nike Missle Base Libertyville Illinois

Army Reserves 1960-1963--Regular stuff weekends and summers

US Navy 1963 to 1965--Cook on AO 62--Three tours on Yankee Station.

9 years 11 months and 16 days and I quit because it was gettin very dangerious and I had a choice.