[lit-ideas] Re: Ouchability
- From: carol kirschenbaum <carolkir@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2011 18:14:06 -0700
Yeah, that "sore" thing is doctor code for utter freaking misery of
unspecified duration. They pulled that on me when they cut out my maxilla
and mandible, reshaped them, and wired my mouth back together again.
So how's your vision?
Carol,
recovered 30 years later
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 9:38 AM, Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Just had one of those complicated retinal surgeries where they pull your
> eye out, fiddle with the insides, place a band around the eye, put it
> back in the socket, sew it up, and weld the whole schmear together with
> lasers. Came out of anesthesia during the operation, struggled for my
> life against the intubation, was knocked out again, and had a half day
> of the worst pain of my life until suitable painkillers were ingested.
> After four days I'm looking better ... more like the guy who's been
> kicked by a mule than like the dying gladiator being dragged from the
> arena.
>
> They should have scheduled the procedure for April 1. Wasn't prepared
> for the pain fest. They said I'd be "sore." No idea that my trigeminal
> nerve would blaze like titan Krakatoas and the damage of surgery would
> propel me into six hours of 10-on-a-10-scale agony beyond description.
> Maybe they were being sarcastic?
>
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