Yay anesthesia!

The next question in this carpal tunnel syndrome journey of mine will be to determine whether I need surgery. It hadn't even crossed my mind that I could need surgery. When this first arose, I imagined healing within three weeks. But because there may be nerve damage, I may need surgery. The firs...  read more

I had a growth spurt the preceding summer and during that time and in the months that followed my mother would often tell me to "hold my head straight," because I was tilting it slightly to the right.  Finally one day when she told me to do that, I responded with something like, &q...  read more

Today I had surgery on my left foot.  It went very well.  Let me back-up a little and explain why I had surgery.  At some point in the last year I broke a bone in my left foot.  Not something that was bothering me all the time, but enough to make me uncomfortable last fall.&...  read more

I'm not sure about the time this happened, but I think my parents said I was 3.  Anyways I went in for the first of what is now 3, count 'em 3 surgeries, the removal of a cyst from my throat.  I don't remember anything about this trip so there's no story here.  Just a faintly visib...  read more

It all started on the morning of my 22nd birthday.  We had gone to visit my brother at college and I was in the shower when I noticed that....*ahem* the left one was swollen.  My first thought was that it was a tumor but I told no one about it. (In retrospect, I really should have, beca...  read more

I don't remember the exact date other than it was after my birthday (Oct. 9) but before Halloween.  I woke up in the middle of the night with an incredible pain in my side.  The next day I had this awful taste in the back of my mouth that no amount of Mr. Pibb would get rid of.  Af...  read more

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