[Magdalen] I met Doogie Howser.

[Jay Weigel]

Mike, they ALL look ungodly young these days! When I first met my dentist
he had braces on his teeth, for catsake! (he's in his 30s, I guess)

Glad to hear it was at least *reasonably* painless. When you have something
weird, they all want to see it! BTDT, but at least not in a teaching
hospital, and glad I wasn't! I was on display enough where I was when I had
all that abdominal surgery back in 2012.

On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 12:11 PM, M J _Mike_ Logsdon <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
wrote:

> My cutting went well, and Doogie (the VERY young surgeon) did very well.
> A very nice, efficient fellow.  I was given what I was told was a big dose
> of Xanax ahead of time (no intravenous sedation there, nuh uh), and, to be
> honest, I did feel some lessening of anxiety, but not nearly enough to make
> the still quite painful surgery anything less than what it was.  He did two
> biopies, on the edge of and slightly into the worst part of the
> worst-remaining wound area.  Half-way through the second it was CLEAR I was
> feeling what was happening, so he shot me a third time with lidocaine,
> which for all intents and purposes, worked.  The leg wounds have been
> healing so well on their own, he told me to simply continue what I've been
> doing in terms of wound care.  Entire procedure, done in under 15 minutes.
>
> Next, soon a PET scan, blessedly possibly on a Saturday, and maybe even
> closer to home.  After that, one or more visits with Doc Kim at the cancer
> center, and of course, the whole ball of wax is hardly fully formed yet, so
> there could be more interesting news to come, but at least for now, no more
> cutting, and I can actually go to work every now and then for a change.
>
> Phew.
>