Aaaaahhhhh .....

I was going a bit stir crazy ... other than a daily (or twice daily) walk, I have not really been out of the house. I got a ride today over to the mall and got a chance to do some wandering around. The most important bit of the wander was into the Electronic Boutique of course ...

I now have several slightly used diversions to keep me amused ...

For PS1
Silent Hill - I never got a chance to play this, and I'm about a third of the way through Silent Hill 2. I know you're not supposed to EVER go backwards in game sequels, but I was curious, and it was cheap.
Star Wars Dark Forces - Don't know if this is going to be good or suck, but I like the back of the jewel box description. Appears to be kind of like doom for star wars fans. If so, I'll be happy. If not, it was ALSO used and cheap.
Midway Presents Arcades Greatest Hits 2 - Paperboy, Gauntlet, Crystal Castles, Marble Madness, Millipede. I bought it for Marble Madness. Millipede is a bonus for me :) (I always liked it better than Centipede). Still haven't found the PS1 Version of Joust, but if I really get frustrated, that's what gamestop.com is for.

I also got a somewhat embarrassing WWF Wrestling Game for the PS2 because it includes classic wrestling characters such as Superfly Jimmy Snooka, The Iron Sheik, and Nikolai Volkoff. Capt. Lou Albano's in there too.

I thought I heard about one that was also supposed to have Chief Jay Strongbow in it ... anyone know the name of that?

Ah well ... off to do some more recuperating. (okay, game playing ... but that's all I had planned for this evening anyway ;))

Re: on a semi-different note:<br>while we're waiting to hear back from Wolf:
 

guess she doesnt want to answer. :)

the story goes like this. since casey was a kid, her father has had chronic issues with heartburn (since taken care of) and young children often like to emulate their parents. so when her father would take some, her brother (justin) would also have a couple. i dont know if it was ignorance of potential problems or ignorance that he was doing it, but they never really tried to stop him. and to justin, it was like candy. chalky, not very tasty candy, but when dum-dums and licorice arent available, you make do with what is.

~james

Re: Re: on a semi-different note:<br>while we're waiting to hear back from Wolf:
 

there was a question? Pain meds are my friend. :3eye:

Re: Re: on a semi-different note:<br>while we're waiting to hear back from Wolf:
 

"Ahh.. I see," said the Blind man.

Had my follow up (and, as it turns out, final) appointment with the surgeon today.

He was charmed by my choice of bandaids (SpongeBob, Patrick, Kermit the Frog, and Scooby Doo).

I'm healing well and cleared to drive again!!!

Unfortunately this ALSO means I'm cleared to go back to work. I'll be starting on Monday.

And with no restrictions on patient contact.

The doc remembered what I did ... his response "Well, I'm pretty sure you could take a punch to the stomach and it wouldn't mess up anything I did in there."

Thanks for the vote of confidence in your abilities, doc ;)

The minute I made it home I headed out in the car. Straight to taco hell. Had me some Chalupas. :)

Ah, simple pleasures.

Wow...I am flattered that you have a bandaid with me on it. I didn't even know they were producing them.

Congrats on the return to the world of the not post-surgical!

Wow, I was doing a search for something else, and saw this thread in the search results. So I revisited it, only to realize that Wolf's surgery was exactly one year ago today. What are the odds? The Cellar gods must have spoken to me (*cough*).

So... Happy anniversary, Wolf!

Thanks!

I was reflecting on this self-same info this morning.

Argh, if only I was donating a kidney instead of needing one. :D But, I'd like to know anyway, in case someone that I know on my dialysis message board would like some info. TIA.

I had gallstones taken out ~ 6 yrs ago. The interesting part is that they were taken out of my small intestine!

I have Crohn's disease which caused three constrictions in my small intestine. The bile pooled up in front of each of them. I had to have other intestiny things done so they had to do the slice and dice version.

They took out three stones the size of marbles. [Nothing to match your egg, Wolf] The surgeon said he hadn't heard of anything like it (being in my intestine) and was going to write it up for a journal [Yeah, I bet he says that to all the guys.]

I didn't realize this was an old thread until about half way through. Glad everything came out ok, Wolf. Apropos of nothing - your surgery was on my birthday last year.

The doc told me I had over 200 "stones" -- it was more like a pile of sand. Each one still hurt like bloody hell when it tried to make a break for freedom, though.

He took pictures while he was in there. He said, "I know you're an engineer, I thought you'd get a kick out of this" and gave them to me. So now I have a picture of my liver in my medical binder.

The picture is in the binder, not the liver... Oh, nevermind.

- Pie

Wolf, you haven't been stoned for a year?:)

Happy birthday, Dar.

Thanks.

While taking your mom to the doctor?

Yep. ;)

:p Wolf-many who have had their gall bladders removed will tell you it is no big deal. I thought that but was I wrong. Had the surgery after an extremely painful episode of trying to pass a gall stone. Woke up after surgery just fine but with 24 hours I was ina coma in the intensive care ward diagnosis "SEPSIS" Took 5 moinths before I got out of hospital. Could barely stand or walk. of physical therapy to restore me. Avaid surgery if at all possible.

Welcome to the Cellar, Telephonics.:)
Did they ever figure out what triggered the Sepsis? Of course any surgery is dangerous, but this sound pretty extreme.

Bruce--A major threat to a patient in a hospital is the threat of staph infection. It is virtuallu impossible to kill this bug and as a result you hear the phrase that hospitals are a threat to ones health. The Docs recognize this fact and that explains why they try to get their patients discharged as quickly as possible. There is no way to discern how I got the bug. In any event I remained ina coma for 6 weeks and when I woke I lived on intravenous feedings and as a result I lost 54 pounds. Of course that's all back plus some more. Maybe I shopuld go on intravenous feeding again for a while. I realize how lucky I was since the morbidity associated with Sepsis is very high. Good luck to you-just be careful.

When I was 15, I cut my knee on a piece of farm equipment. We were working so fast and hard, I didn't notice it until I started to walk away and my shoe was full of blood. They wrapped a brown paper bag and baleing twine around it and on the way home after work, I stopped at the Doctors and got some stitches.
It was sore but OK, for 5 days, but woke up the sixth with it grotesquely swollen and painful. Doc cut it open to relieve the pressure and put me in the hospital for 10 days. The said I had blood poisoning and a staph infection. I guess the wound being at the extremities rather than a traumatic hole in the abdomen, was in my favor.
I know they weren't happy that I can't take penicillin, and they kept me in isolation for the first 5 days.
Wouldn't recommend it for a diet plan, though.:)

You are a very lucky man.

Tele, I was very lucky with regards to my own surgery, but I am no stranger to post surgical infection. My mother had hernia repair surgery several years ago that resulted in her being rehospitalized with a raging case of e. coli and some other nasty bug I forget the name of. Luckily she responded to antibiotics, though.

Very sorry to hear about your experience.