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Sign up now to listen atood, Little Mood. I'm your host, Daniel M. Lavery, and with me in the studio this week is Tori Bedford, a writer and journalist who lives in Boston with her two small dogs.

Tori, welcome to the show. Thank you so much for having me on. What an honor. It's so wonderful to have you on. You and I have shared so many things. A bed in a Provincetown Airbnb.

Pictures of my recent cyst removal scalp procedure. Discussions about intestinal blockages that our dogs have.

We've really lived a very full life together, I think.

We have. We've had some really beautiful memories, including our sexy sleepover, where we just ate

candy and watched Adventure Time. And then, yeah, I am disappointed that you did not ask to take

the cyst home. Truly, I think that you two could have really had something special, but I'm sorry that they didn't let you. I assume you asked. No, no, no, because the thought that I had was like, if I ask and they say no, the next time I come in, I'm going to steal it. And they might be on the lookout for my stealing it. Whereas if I like that just helped clarify like I left without it and I was like that was the

wrong move. So next time I'm just going to take it.

Next time. Okay. Is this like a thing where it was dangerous for you to have a cyst in your head?

Or was this like a thing where you have a really short haircut and you don't want a lumpy head?

Yeah, I just started getting them like once I turned about 30. And they're not that big, but they drove me nuts. Like they don't hurt and there's nothing wrong with them. But I hated them. And I was always like, why is there a small bump on my scalp? I'm losing my mind. My 10-year-old Chihuahua had the same procedure for a

series of lumps all over his lumpy little body. And now he's looking quite sveled. That's beautiful.

You know, yeah. Congratulations to you both. Your dog and I have very specific and similar cosmetic

needs. It's just like anytime anyone says they've had a surgery, I can also be like, yeah, my 10-year-old Chihuahua also probably had that surgery.

Surgery is such a strong word. I got a couple of lytocane shots and then I heard somebody sawing at my scalp for a minute. Okay, sawing at your scalp is a surgery. I was awake. I mean, it was like one of those like, you know, like broigel the elder paintings where they're like removing the stone of madness.

And they're just like sitting in a chair looking around. It was like that. Yeah. You had the stone of madness removed and you didn't even think to take it home. I did think. Tori, I just really want to stress. I thought about it a lot. Like this was a, I think that I should have just taken it. You're right. But like I'm going to take the next one. I thought about it the whole time. There's no part of me that didn't give it thought. Like I always want my own medical waste. And I make no apologies about that. They probably sold it. It was probably sold on the black market, honestly. Probably your dog has it. When I had, it probably does. They probably inserted it into his body

in some other complicated surgery. I, when I had my wisdom teeth, well, I had one

wisdom tooth removed, and I did ask if I could have it. And they put it, they put it in a little

like jewel case for me. Oh, like like when you when you lose a tooth at school

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