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[Richard]

Can we have an AFZ? Just for now? Even if it's just this thread? What I'm gettin' at is I want y'all to purge yourselves of whatever ails ya'. I can take it. I had surgery today to remove the melanoma from my eye and I'm feeling downright ornery. I've actually had a sharp stick in the eye before but this beats that by a mile. If y'all are creative enough mebbe' I'll forget all about it. Let 'er rip. Admin can look the other way for a time.

 

[Let'sgoflying!]

What kind of anesthesia did they give you Richard? How long ago was this?

 

[Richard]

What kind of anesthesia did they give you Richard? How long ago was this?

The gas man was there, he said it was a local, but I don't remember being there...made me forget everything. Previous to that was an IV with some kind of opiate-based something. Started approx 1300 hours, out in 2 hours. Woke up just long enough to shuffle out to the car.

Is that the best you got? C'mon man, give me something to forget this eye ache.

 

[Tom-D]

The gas man was there, he said it was a local, but I don't remember being there...made me forget everything. Previous to that was an IV with some kind of opiate-based something. Started approx 1300 hours, out in 2 hours. Woke up just long enough to shuffle out to the car.

Is that the best you got? C'mon man, give me something to forget this eye ache.

If I had an eye like your and it didn't hurt, then I'd worry

 

[Richard]

True to form, the West Coasters are out late. Tom, I'm not worried but for all my tough guy banter I'm a puss when it comes to pain... Oh, the fire I've seen.... Aint ya got some **** to take my mind off of this? How's that thumb o' yours?


Y'all should consider yourselves fortunate none of my posts made it to the thread awhile back about accidents and injuires.

 

[SkyHog]

Hows this:

A man walks into a bar.

Ouch.

Another man walks into a bar.

Ouch.

A third man walks into a bar.

You'd have thought one of the three would have ducked.

 

[rpadula]

OK, the bizarre question thread reminded me of this one...


Q: What's the difference between kinky and perverted?

A: Kinky is when you use a feather. Perverted is when you use the whole chicken.


/I'll be here all week.
//Tip your admin

 

[bbchien]

Ouch, Richard!

 

[Richard]

Well, I was thinking I could be like the guy they hire at wakes...he eats all the food and absorbs all the sins of the people. I was in so much pain which could only be described as intense agony I figured y'all couldn't make me feel any worse.


And all y'all could throw at me were some old jokes? I guess everyone's feeling pretty healthy.

I just got back from my post-op OV. They immediatly put numbing drops in my eye--and boy oh boy, they worked! It is interesting that having been subjected to pain, the removal of that pain has the same result as administering some euphoria-inducing drug.

While the gas man kept me in jello land this is what happened yesterday: the eye doc removed a squalous melanoma from corneal/sclera which ran from under the lower eye lid around the inside corner up towards the upper eye lid. He freeze/thawed my eye three cycles and scraped using a diamond tipped knife. He says he got it all but won't be sure until next week. About 1 in 10 patients experience the pain I did. Evidently, he had to go deep near the cornea so that was what was causing the intense pain.

I'm gonna' say it again: GET YOUR EYES CHECKED! None of this neoplasm was evident on an opthamalgic eye exam completed last October. It moved fast but it was caught early because of a eye injury I suffered 3 months ago. No less than 5 surgeons, two who specialize in corneal transplants, all concur I would have lost the eye before the year was out if the melanoma was not removed. But it wouldn't end there, it would have metastasized into other areas of the body, ie, vital organs.

 

[Let'sgoflying!]

Glad they caught it, hope you have no further troubles Richard. May the pain abate soon!

 

[Richard]

Glad they caught it, hope you have no further troubles Richard. May the pain abate soon!

Thank you. As bothersome as this has been what I find the most distressing is possible loss of the eye and, perhaps, a serious degraded visual acuity. A long time ago I decided I would rather lose an arm than lose my sight. I still feel that way.