2 posts tagged “surgery”
this is the goal end result of the surgery i have scheduled for july 1. i guess this is my way of proclaiming that cancer hasn't yet been painful enough for me. this process has been described to me as perhaps the worst pain i will ever experience. i am skeptical after passing kidney stones, but we shall see.
in the meantime you can hear katie couric pronounce the name of the surgery.
why you would want to do this, i have no idea.
also, gory details here -- i don't know if it is vanity or masochism, but i really want to try to fit into my junior prom dress. it's hot.
there's really nothing that warms my heart more than medical incompetence.
on friday, i spoke to a nurse at the hospital where i will have all my girly parts snipped out on tuesday. she wanted to go over some last minute instructions.
and she wanted to go over my medical history. this kind of annoys me, because i know they have my charts. but what are you gonna do?
she asked all kinds of questions - like -
"are you diabetic?"
"uh, no." (i would have mentioned something like that by now).
"do you have a history of heart problems?"
"uh, no." (again, with 8 months of medical records i would think this would have come up by now.)
so, i answered these questions, no, no, no. how boring
and then she said
"i see here where you had a kidney removed. can you tell me why that was?"
holy shit. i have never had kidney surgery - much less had one removed! i thought maybe someone was playing a joke on me.
"i have no idea what you're talking about. i have never had a kidney removed."
"really?"
"yes, really. i have never had kidney surgery." (i felt it was important to be clear, here.)
"huh. it says here "nephrectomy"
"well, that is WRONG."
"well, i guess that's why we do these calls!"
i hope they remove the correct organs on tuesday.
