Surgery Day

For those who have been asking: Thursday, 5-15-08, 1 p.m.

The warm-up starts at 10:15 a.m. with the checking in ceremony. If one more person asks me list my prior surgeries and current medications, you will hear about it on the 6 o'clock news. So far, there have been four requests for the exact same information. In the same medical facility.

Then The Girls and I go to a procedure euphemistically called "wire localization." It involves inserting wires right in the breast in a circle around the area to be removed, much like staking out an excavation. This is done with a local anesthetic. Can't wait.

Now we wait at least an hour for the main event, the surgery. I figure by then I'll be ready for some major druggage and may even have to be restrained from helping myself.

I'll go home after I wake up. No staying in the hospital for me, apparently.

That's all the news from Lake Woebegone. I probably won't be lucid until Saturday so phone calls might be a bit stranger than usual; consider yourself warned.