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

[Marion Thompson]

Everyone's pain response or tolerance is different.

Marion, a pilgrim


On 8/25/2016 11:26 AM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford wrote:
> 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.
>>