One lump or 2?

Poor Dan, he's had a lump on the back of his neck the size of an egg for the last couple of weeks. The doctor says it's a cyst which has got infected, and in fact he's had this afliction a couple of times before, once about 4 years ago that I can remember and once on another occasion a few years before that which was, as they say 'before my time'. When we were in Portrush *last* weekend (more blogging on that here) we could see he was getting uncomfortble by the way he was holding his head a little to one side, and in fact it looked like he had a back problem, you know, when people turn their body instead of their head so as to avoid the pain, so I knew it was getting bad. Fortunately he'd already been to the docs and got 2 doses of antibiotic (because it took 2 lots to get rid of it last time) so it was a matter of taking the tablets, and waiting for them to take effect.
The lump got bigger and bigger and he was in increasing pain as the pressure got higher (see the 1st three pictures on the link below) it totally took over the back of his neck and goes up into the hairline - in fact you can see he didn't really have a neck - it sticks out rather than in when you look at it in profile.
The beginning of the end happened on Thursday morning. 'Something's happened to my neck' he said, and showed me the pillow which had blood on it. Euwghhh.
There was scar there from when it popped last time (which you can see on the 'before' pics) and it would seem that he'd managed to catch this somehow and it started to bleed. I washed it with antiseptic and gave it a blast of dettol spray and re-dressed it with a nice melolin dressing.
The next night it was clear that there was going to be an eruption as the pressure was building still (no let-up in the pain) and it had stopped feeling rock hard and had started to feel a bit squidgy.
D-Day (or rather I should say t-time) came at 5:30am Friday morning - 'It's splurged' he said - and as I took of the dressing, a stream of lava-like green and yellow stuff erupted from it. 'Phew that feels a bit better' he said. I was too busy running for the camera to feel too grossed out - and after taking the pics, I cleaned it up with some nice antiseptic wipes and re-dressed it. The next couple of days it's got better and better, still some rock-hardness in there but deflating more and more every day as the goo comes out of it. He's not been taking painkillers since the 1st eruption as the pressure started to reduce from that point.
Pictures (not for the fainthearted) ---> here.