one down, one to go

[Aggie]

Had the first surgical procedure this morning. Went quite quick and all out patient. Drugs sure help you to watch them take a foot long needle and shove it into your stomach area. I sit here proped up in bed with the puter on my lap, feeling warm and totally fuzzy brained. I won't know for a couple of days if it worked.

Friday is #2. That one may keep me in the hospital for a day or two. Gotta love where they can shove cameras these days. Bad part is they have to create an opening for these camera views. Not like already available openings for them to shove up or down. OK I think I need to go back to sleep for a while.....To bad ya'll can't see the camera shots of my dreams lately. Chiller would love them. No clowns except clownish dr's.

[spiffybeth]

what's the surgery for?

[LaFoto]

You get a laparoscopy done?
Will they make stills while they're in there? You might want to post them to your favourite photography forum ......... erm .... :shock: :wink: :big grin:

(I once had them copy the video of my coloscopy for me onto a tape I brought, but after one view I decided I had seen just about enough of what I look inside that part of myself... :pale: )

[MissMia]

:hug: I hope you are feeling better! I'll keep my fingers crossed.

[Chris of Arabia]

I guess it's better to have a small camera access point than a rather larger surgeon access point. Hope all goes well with you.

[Terri]

To bad ya'll can't see the camera shots of my dreams lately. Chiller would love them. No clowns except clownish dr's. I see nothing has dampened your sense of humor... :lol:

Glad it's over! Get well soon.

[Aggie]

I see nothing has dampened your sense of humor... :lol:

Glad it's over! Get well soon.

If I couldn't laugh, I'd be a puddle of tears.

For those that don't know, the fall of 2007 was a nightmare for me. I had just finished a workshop with Terri, Brad, Deena, and Gay when life intruded in the form of gall stones from hell. I had surgery, but the surgeon botched it. It took 4 more surgeries and a month in the hospital the first time to sort of fix it. Then I found out it wasm't fixed and causing major other problems. I'm fighting being put on a liver transplant list. It is still up in the air about that one. I'm now diabetic, have pancreatitis, and many many many perferated ulcers as a result of the bile being left in me for weeks before they did something about it. Tiny amounts your body absorbs, but gallons you are being eaten from the inside out. So the scoping is to see what other damage has happened. It has taken me this long to work up enough nerve to even let a surgeon touch me since this has happened. I did find where those who graduated at the bottom of the list in medical school end up.

Anyway, It has put my life on hold while I fight through the pain. But I do venture out when I have good days. Yeah I can still crack jokes about it, but I do not want this to ever happen to another human being. My stubbornss pulled me through it, even when dr's thought I should be dead. So it has become my mission to make the dr. who did this feel the same pain in the only way I can. He should not be practicing. Especially when he lies to my hubby then in front of my hubby tells me sopmething different. ARRGGGHHH do they think females are stupid? Well this is So. Utah so that is really a given on the males around here, part.

[Terri]

We had such a great time in Montana. It's hard for me to remember how quickly things fell apart for you after that.

:hug: Hope this is the start of complete repair!

[PhotoJet]

Dang, girl. :shock:

I say you put in for some bionic parts or something. Cripe... they owe you that much. :batterup:

I'll keep you in my prayers. I'm still hoping for the inevitable meet-up! :sun:

[MissMia]

:hug: That's terrible! Here's to a speedy recovery and for a Dr. that know what they are doing. :toast:

[invisible]

Ouch Aggie... I had sensed bitterness in a couple of other posts from you, but I would've never imagined this. If it had been me instead of you, I'd be ten times as pissed off. Hopefully you can recover soon and nail the quack for the count.

[mitica100]

What's up with them 'modern doctors', one must ask! I nearly had the same thing happen to me a few years back, when they took the gall bladder out but forgot to scoop out some other large stones. I was miserable for about 3-4 months, until they went in again and removed them.

I feel you, hang in there, human body is a wonderful thing and before you know it you'll be back to normal.

[ferny]

That's a shitter. Much worse and nowhere near as good as having flippers attached to your body which is what I was hoping they were doing.

The doctors here aren't much better. I know at least three people who've had to have extra work done to correct what was messed up the first time.

[LaFoto]

I am very sorry to hear all this, Aggie. I didn't know... now I'm sorry about the cheeky remark on getting stills done while they're inside you with the camera ... this is too serious and too bad to crack silly jokes about ... sorry. I wish you all the best and that this time around you only get the real specialists who really, really know what they are doing!

I don't get how things like this can happen at all, and in a country like yours, for that matter!? It is so sad!

[Aggie]

PLEASE KEEP THE SILLY JOKES COMING! They make me smile and help me through the bad days,

You would laugh, yesterday I had to sign about nine pages full of acknowledgements about being prescribed a new pain killer. It is dueladlin (spelling) it is a sybnthetic opiate. My regular doc isn't even allowed to prescribe it. One of the things I agreed to was random drug testing. So I told the doc, "Does the pill bottle come with another bottle to pee in? I'm such a drug addict... It took me 5 monhs to go through 40 oxycodin. But then you have to remember to take the darn pills to be an addict.

If I can't get out like I want too, I'm going to go through my cases (big boxes) of old negs and organize them. I haven't had the heart to do it until I came to this forum.

[Terri]

I haven't had the heart to do it until I came to this forum. Then I am grateful for having the chance to inspire you to do it. :) We'd love to see anything you'd care to scan & put up here. Given your neck of the woods, I know it's all good.

:jabs her some more: And post some stuff from the aforementioned workshop, too! :irked: I can't get Deena and Gay to do it. People need to see more liths!

[Rolleimaniac]

I'm mad for you...Can't believe this has happened. I'd like to get the Doctor, along with a few AIG employees alone for a brief meeting.

Hang in there, get fixed up, and yeah, let the body start working its magic.

[Aggie]

lol, Brad I'm also a metalsmith. That I can do in the garage close to help. I'll bring my forging hammer to the party. I'll even let you weild the blow torch. Chiller can take pictures while we do our magic.

[Antarctican]

Oh Aggie, I was sad to hear of what you've been through. How awful. I'm glad you have such a good attitude and have kept your sense of humor, as that will surely help you through all this. Here's wishing you a speedy recovery. And a hospital gown that actually closes at the back.

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[Chiller]

Did you save any parts for me :mrgreen: I need parts.....oh...I havent posted any of those images here yet.....workin on y'all slowely. :biglaugh::biglaugh:

Seriously, I wish you all the best.

[ferny]

PLEASE KEEP THE SILLY JOKES COMING! They make me smile and help me through the bad days,


Ok, but you did ask for it...






One tectonic plate bumped into another and says, "sorry, my fault."





I saw my neighbour in the garden digging.

I asked, "what are you up to mate?"

He replied, "I'm going to dig a really deep hole, fill it with water and have a bucket we can send down to get the water if ever we need it."

I thought, "I'll leave him to it,...... he means well..."





What's hairy on the outside, wet on the inside, starts with 'c', ends with 't', and has a 'u' and an 'n' in the middle?
A coconut





Two elderly gentlemen, who had been without sex for several years, decided they needed to visit a whore house. When they arrived at the house, the Madam took one look at them and decided she wasn't going to waste any of her girls on these two old men. So she used "blow-up" dolls instead. She put a doll in each man's room and left them to their business. After the two men were finished, they started for home and got to talking. The first man said,
"I think the girl I had was dead. She never moved, talked or groaned. How was it for you?"
The second man replied, "I think mine was a witch."
The first man asked, "How's that?"
"Well," said the second man, "when I nibbled on her breast, she farted and flew out the window!"





A man is stranded in the desert and has not eaten or drunk anything for nearly 36 hours. He is about to die. Amazingly, as he stumbles through the sand, he comes to three market stalls. The man (half-thinking he must be hallucinating) approaches the first stall and demands, "I need water, sell me some water."
"Sorry, Sir," replies the stall owner, "I only sell custard."
The man, visibly taken aback, goes up to the second stall and again asks for water.
"I'm afraid I only sell sponge cake and cream," replies the second stall owner.
The man turns in disbelief to the final stall and begs, "please, I need water now or I'll die."
"Sorry Sir, I only sell hundreds and thousands," replies the final stall owner.
His fatigue momentarily forgotten the man demands, "You mean to tell me that the three of you all own market stalls in the middle of the desert and none of you sell water?"
"I know, Sir," says the first stall owner, "it's a trifle bazaar."





First, I got angina pectoris and then arteriosclerosis. Just as I was recovering from these, I got tuberculosis, double pneumonia and phthisis.

Then they gave me hypodermics.

Appendicitis was followed by tonsillectomy. These gave way to aphasia and hypertrophic cirrhosis.

I completely lost my memory for a while. I know I had diabetes and acute ingestion, besides gastritis, rheumatism, lumbago and neuritis.

I don't know how I pulled through it..

It was the hardest spelling test I've ever had.





Show me a man who laughs at defeat and I will show you a West Indian chiropodist with a sense of humour.





So I said, "Do you want a game of darts?"
He said, "Okay then."
I said, "Nearest to bull starts."
He said, "Baa."
I said, "Moo."
He said, "You're closest!"

[PhotoJet]

A man is driving down the street with a penguin in the front seat. He drives past a police officer, who, after doing a double-take, turns on his flashing lights and pulls the man over.
Officer: Sir, what are you doing with that penguin i the car.
Man: I was taking him to the baseball game.
Officer: That is no place for a penguin! I want you to take this penguin to the zoo immediately!
Man: Okay, officer.

The man drives away, and the officer resumes his vigil.

The following week, the same man is driving down the same street with the same penguin in the front seat of the car. The same officer sees him and pulls him over.

Officer: Sir, aren't you the one I stopped last week?
Man: Yes, officer, that was me!
Officer: I thought I told you to take that penguin to the zoo!
Man: Oh, yes, sir! I did, and he liked it so much we are going again!

:biglaugh: :biglaugh:

[Antarctican]

Speaking of penguins, this clip always makes me smile:

http://www.forumsforjustice.org/forums/images/smilies/rainsong.gif

[Aggie]

Thanks ya'll.... Funny Jeanette i told that one during the c-section of my second child. It has fond memories. Of course I was so hungry from not eating for three days prior, I told them to order out for pizza and shove it in while they had me open. Chiller I kept the gall stones. They look evil. Like small emaciated pyramids with daggers instead of corners. Yep laughter is the best medicine. Tears give me migraines.

[ferny]

Speaking of penguins and funny...

A friend told me a story of when he went on a school trip with his school to the zoo – years ago, the guy is in his forties. There was one guy there who was known to be a bit dodgy and on the way home there was a commotion at the back of the bus. When the teacher went to investigate she looked in his coat to see that he'd leaned over the small barriers and nicked a penguin from the zoo.