Miserere wrote: >On 4 May 2011 13:12, Mark Roberts <m...@robertstech.com> wrote: >> Not that I've been "away" but I had some minor surgery last week >> (removal of a plugged mucous gland inside my lower lip. It was >> surprisingly inconvenient for a couple of days :) Less so when I got >> to the point that the pain of the, um, pain was less inconvenient than >> the side effects of the painkillers. > >I went through that exact same procedure a few years ago. I remember >leaving the clinic thinking "that wasn't so bad". Then 45 mins later >the anaesthesia starts to wear off and I'm racing to the pharmacy to >buy the pain killers I'd been prescribed, which I initially thought I >wouldn't have to buy because, you know, I'm a Man, and I need not of >those wimpy medicines.
That was *exactly* my experience. I was surprised when the doctor gave me a prescription for painkillers. I was *very* surprised when I saw it was a narcotic. But by the time a got to the drug store it was becoming evident that I was going to need it. (But I was very glad to be off the meds by the next day - those are no fun.) >It's amazing how painfully irritating 3 stitches inside a lip can be. I don't know how many stitches I had but it required a subcutaneous layer of stitches and then an outer, closing layer. All of the "dissolving" type, so I don't have to have them taken out, thankfully. >It's also amazing how far I overestimated my manliness. Nah, you just underestimated what a determined doctor with a sharp scalpel can do! (Of course, *I* should have known better...) -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
