A man living with a giant squishy lump on his neck for 20 years finally got it removed after getting sick of people teasing him it looks like a pair of testicles.
John appeared in the latest episode of TLC's Dr Pimple Popper (February 25) suffering from a super-sized lipoma that had swollen up to tennis ball proportions.
Although his wife and kids have been sympathetic, he said he is not happy about some of the comments he gets.
He says: "My extended family, I don’t see eye-to-eye with them.
"I get tired of being made fun of. They’ve said it 'looks like your nuts are hanging off your chin'".
John turns to Dermatological Surgeon Dr Sandra Lee, AKA Dr Pimple Popper, to see if she can remove the massive lump.
In the operating room, John’s neck is numbed with local anaesthetic.
"This is the golden moment, so to speak," Dr Lee says, making her incision into the front of John’s neck.
Getting sight of the lipoma, Dr Lee starts to slowly remove it.
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"John’s lipoma is visible just under the surface, which is a great relief,” she says, "I just don’t know how deep this is going and I don’t know what it’s attached to."
Frustratingly, the lipoma isn’t going without a fight.
So as not to disturb the important vessel in John’s neck, Dr Lee opts to remove the lipoma piece by piece, snipping away at the fatty orange tissue.
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Like something out of a sci-fi film, Dr Lee wrestles with the stubborn mass, trying to tease it out.
"I’m trying to remove John’s lipoma, but the bottom part is still stuck to something deeper, so every time I snip a little bit of it, the part that I don’t snip off gets pulled back in," Dr Lee says.
She worries john will be left with "some kind of a bump" but her perseverance pays off and she removes the last of the lipoma.
After closing up John’s neck wound, Dr Lee hands him a mirror so he can look at himself, lump-free after two decades.
"Hot damn, I look damn good now! It’s flat, it’s not this circle, it’s not this bulge, it’s not hanging down, it’s gone," he says.
The delighted grandad adds: "I’ll be going more places, we’ll be doing more things as a family.
"I came here today thinking that this was never going to happen and she found it, it was hiding!"
Dr Pimple Popper airs at 10pm on Thursdays exclusively on TLC, and stream on discovery+
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