Thank you everyone for your comments and wonderful words of encouragement. They mean a lot to me. The staples came out yesterday. I’m home now. Just don’t make me laugh.
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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?
Taste your blood, if you dare, but beware:
Blood sugar is not a measure of how sweet you are.
The Contribution of Albucasis in Venesection (History of Islamic Medicine) (pdf)
The use of the medicinal leech in reconstructive plastic surgery (Journal of Plastic Surgery) (Warning: Graphic Images)
“In case you failed to notice,
in case you failed to see,
this is my heart, bleeding before you,
this is me down on my knees.”
Song Lyric by Jewel, Foolish Games