Fewer than 4% of people between the ages of 30 and 40 get gallstone polyps. Women are 3x less likely to get them than men. About 5% of the time, the surgeon needs to switch from a small laparoscopic navel incision to open surgery through a huge incision on the right side just under the ribs. Am I lucky, or what?
Yesterday was Friday the 13th. I cut my finger. A knife-slip sliced saucily through a tendon. The emergency room gave me six stitches. I’m minus a cup or two of blood. If I wasn’t superstitious (paraskavedekatriaphobiatic) before, I am now.
It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.
Quotation from William Shakespeare, Macbeth