article_snippet.sent: I could see the needles sitting on the side in blue antiseptic liquid. '
article_snippet.sent: the others were fusing together and causing the area to swell.
article_snippet.sent: The pain was excruciating and I’d stay up with my head in my hands, willing ’d to stop. '
article_snippet.sent: Less than 24 hours later, I was lying on a hospital bed having a section of my head shaved. '
article_snippet.sent: Fully awake and shaking with fear, I gritted my teeth as a doctor cut a hole into my skull to drain the infection. '
article_snippet.sent: Despite having had nine needles injected into my head to try and numb the area, I could still feel it and the sound of scalpel on bone was like something from a horror movie. '
article_snippet.sent: I told a doctor to shave it all off, but thankfully a doctor didn’t come to that. '
article_snippet.sent: I had to wear the bandage on my head for three weeks afterwards, making out-patient visits to have the hole in my head filled with a special material and the dressing replaced.
article_snippet.sent: The medical opinion was that the cause had been a dirty needle used to sew the extensions in.
article_snippet.sent: a doctor said that it could have nicked my scalp as the hair was attached to the cornrows.'
article_snippet.sent: Since then, I’ve sporadically had similar abscesses develop on other parts of my body, including one which had to be cut out of my lower spine.
article_snippet.sent: It’s horrid as aside from painful, they leave scars. '
highlights_snippet.sent: Dashed to hospital where doctors removed infection with scalpel .
  