Re: speaking of Western medicine...

Quoth Irfon-Kim Ahmad <irfon@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> on Fri, 09 May 2008
15:13:06 +0000:

>Vicki Rosenzweig <vr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> I had my gallbladder removed Monday. It is Wednesday morning, and I am
>> posting this from my home computer. The magic word here is
>> "laparoscopic." My mother (with whom I spoke, cheaply and easily, 
>> across the Atlantic Ocean, but while that's modern technology, it's
>> not primarily medical) told me that not all that long ago, I would 
>> have been in the hospital for two weeks. This was while we weren't
>> sure whether they'd send me home after one night instead of two or
>> possibly three.
>
>I'm glad that it went okay, and that you're recovering well!  Two of my 
>partners have had laparoscopic gallbladder removal, either neither while 
>I was involved with them, so I didn't get to see the recovery process 
>first-hand.  Still, it's a pretty neat thing!  

Indeed. With occasional odd moments, like noticing that my navel
itches, looking down, and being reminded that one of the incisions is
there.
-- 
Vicki Rosenzweig | vr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Heat death or cold, in randomness or Cause,
It is not how it ends, but what it was." --John M. Ford