[Magdalen] To bring it all full circle: Stanford.

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

Yay!  You tell 'em!

I saw a Beetle Bailey cartoon where the dentist told the general there
would be a little pain.
"Wait just a minute while I close the windows and turn up the volume on the
radio."

You never know either.  I had a very minor surgical procedure involving
some stitches in my abdomen, and they continually hurt. On the day I came
in to get them out, I was really worried about how much it would hurt. The
doctor was gently reassuring.  Then, as he took them out, I barely felt it.

You see, they do that so as to keep us all off balance.  "That one hurt
like hades, but this one didn't.  I dunno...."

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 10:02 AM, M J _Mike_ Logsdon <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
wrote:

> Here's what I sent my Stanford doc not long after my blessed insomnia
> began at 2 am....
>
> *****
>
> To: *****, MD
> From: Logsdon, Michael
> Received: 8/25/2016 ***** AM PST
> Just letting you know:  the cytoscopy is done.  My urological reality is
> that I'm okay.  And, yes, I'll make sure my local doc forwards you the
> results, and if that doesn't happen, I'll bring them personally to the next
> appointment.  I will tell you this, though.  That procedure will happen
> again ONLY UNDER GENERAL.  I've had 8 invasive procedures done since
> January, and this one takes the cake.  Never again.  It might even give me
> nightmares.  You medical sorts need to realise that your profession
> discovered sedation for a REASON.  I wouldn't wish what I experienced
> yesterday on my worst enemy.  AND, I was prepped with lidocaine.  Yeah,
> like that helped.  Give me a butchering shin biopsy any day, and a
> colonoscopy once a week, anything but that again.
>
> Yay.
>
> :-)=
>
> PS:  Legs/feet:  still doing better.  We'll see when the prednisone is
> done.  Where there's no known cure, a good thing may need to continue, in
> some form, no matter what.
>