myk r sanchez
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Hang in there man. Post up when you can...
Looks like #5 & #6 have arrived...
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Prayers sent your way my friend.
Oh, and don't forget to post really weird stuff while you're still " under the influence"
Ya know, cosmic revelations and such
Just trying to keep it light bud..
Waiting to hear.....
Oh, and don't forget to post really weird stuff while you're still " under the influence"
Ya know, cosmic revelations and such
Just trying to keep it light bud..
Waiting to hear.....
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Well, I survived.... 
I love it when a procedure is referred to as a "scrape and burn" - it's VERY appropriate.
I was awake the whole time as they doped me up and had at it in two places...
side of neck (opposite side from the massive procedure some years back) and on top of
my left shoulder.
I was texting whoever asked that "the hacking has commenced"....they actually were
hacking bits of me off.
They'd dig in, then sear the dang thing with heat. The smell was....well....
All with me awake and getting yanked all over the place.
Kinda freaky when you think of it - but compared to my previous surgeries and all that?
PIECE OF FREAKING CAKE.
#5 and #6 are now just some seriously sore additional future scars, with only a follow-up
in six months to see how I'm doing.
Only possible long-term issue is if they didn't get it all - in which case, off to the hospital
we go yet again.
No worries. The collection is now 6, along with the 3 "official" flatlines.
THANK YOU so much for your thoughts and prayers, everyone!!!
I love it when a procedure is referred to as a "scrape and burn" - it's VERY appropriate.
I was awake the whole time as they doped me up and had at it in two places...
side of neck (opposite side from the massive procedure some years back) and on top of
my left shoulder.
I was texting whoever asked that "the hacking has commenced"....they actually were
hacking bits of me off.
They'd dig in, then sear the dang thing with heat. The smell was....well....
All with me awake and getting yanked all over the place.
Kinda freaky when you think of it - but compared to my previous surgeries and all that?
PIECE OF FREAKING CAKE.
#5 and #6 are now just some seriously sore additional future scars, with only a follow-up
in six months to see how I'm doing.
Only possible long-term issue is if they didn't get it all - in which case, off to the hospital
we go yet again.
No worries. The collection is now 6, along with the 3 "official" flatlines.
THANK YOU so much for your thoughts and prayers, everyone!!!
Ranger16
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Told ya so Ed. I'm headed in for Cataract surgery on the 16th and I am told that is a piece of cake as well. Hope "they" are correct.Personally, I'd much rather they cut on my neck than my eye.
Consider those scars as battle ribbons.
I'm crappy with words, glad your OK.
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Coincidentally, we both went to the eye doc for exams the other day and my eyesight continues to have
actually improved.
I've had glasses most of my adult life, mostly for astigmatism in one eye more so than the other...but the
last couple times, my formerly "weak" eye has actually passed my good one to become even better than it.
I don't have to wear glasses at all anymore when out and about and usually don't, although I do have a pair
to slightly correct for distance and another for all the up close/tiny stuff (I don't do well with bifocals).
That all was confirmed yet again this time, with one additional caveat - it seems my now better eye has
improved because of the beginnings of cataracts!
The doc said the cataract starting up has formed a sort of additional lens in that eye, which has improved
focus because of it.
Unreal....
As for the new scars, meh....throw 'em on the pile of countless others.
BDF6
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Just kidding Ed!
My dad was an MD and would come home from medical mission trips with slide shows of what they dealt with in the jungle & other remote areas.
I seem to remember him being eager to show us so we saw a lot of 'stuff' before dinner on occassion.
GLAD you are recoving well
Good to hear Ed. Yes the smell of them cauterizing the skin is not good. I had some moles removed. Freeze them with liquid nitrogen, slice them off with a razor blade, and cauterize the area. A band aid and turn me loose.Well, I survived....
I love it when a procedure is referred to as a "scrape and burn" - it's VERY appropriate.
I was awake the whole time as they doped me up and had at it in two places...
side of neck (opposite side from the massive procedure some years back) and on top of
my left shoulder.
I was texting whoever asked that "the hacking has commenced"....they actually were
hacking bits of me off.
They'd dig in, then sear the dang thing with heat. The smell was....well....
All with me awake and getting yanked all over the place.
Kinda freaky when you think of it - but compared to my previous surgeries and all that?
PIECE OF FREAKING CAKE.
#5 and #6 are now just some seriously sore additional future scars, with only a follow-up
in six months to see how I'm doing.
Only possible long-term issue is if they didn't get it all - in which case, off to the hospital
we go yet again.
No worries. The collection is now 6, along with the 3 "official" flatlines.
THANK YOU so much for your thoughts and prayers, everyone!!!
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Oh man, there's no WAY I'm posting pics of this nastyness....
Just kidding Ed!
My dad was an MD and would come home from medical mission trips with slide shows of what they dealt with in the jungle & other remote areas.
I seem to remember him being eager to show us so we saw a lot of 'stuff' before dinner on occassion.
GLAD you are recoving well
Funny as you mention it, they WERE insistent on taking pics of both surgical areas during the procedure -
which if course, they WERE insistent on showing me, since both are on places I can't see myself.
Kinda gory, really....but I guess they expected a shock value, which they didn't get out of me.
Folks, I've seen my own innards, live on the monitors in OR's before, ain't much shocks me anymore.
Usually when I go in to the doc's for the bi-annual bloodletting for tests, I stick the needle in my own
arm because our nurse isn't very good at it. It's weird, but they expect that out of me anymore.
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Yessir.
I didn't get the nitrogen (although I did insist they zap some other stuff on my back while I was there with
that crap, gratis - hey, I get my money's worth, you know?)
On the two areas at hand, it was all needles full of lidocaine ('you feel me poking you?" "how about NOW?")
Here's you some laughing gas and here we go....
Dig dig, scrape scrape, SIZZLE.....rinse, lather, repeat
)Went on forever, me cracking up and goofing off with them the whole time, trying to keep everyone loose
(like my wife, who was in there with me - but especially ME, of course).
Just a really weird scene...
Two big ol' bandages later and out I went...and yes, I do feel them a bit today, but nothing to worry about.
Thanks.
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