A GOOD FRIEND, A Minor Surgery

 

A Minor Surgery ... I hope. And not the ordeal of 2017. But thinking about that and I came up with the above comic this morning.  The surgeon had lead me to believe I would by fine in 2 weeks, but that wasn't the case at all. It was just an overnight stay in hospital and tomorrow should be just a visit to the doc and walk home a couple of hours later. I survived the 2017 ordeal, but it did take 12 months to be back to normal. It was only(!) hemorrhoids, not cancer or anything life threatening, but still an ordeal as painful as kidney stones but lasting a months.

A GOOD FRIEND helped me get through that, just by being with me. 

Since I retired he spends everyday with me too, and I release that our time together is not unlimited, and he will be 10 this year.  

Whatever happens, he will be with me to get through it too.

I have to make the appointment from 8:30AM on their website on the day you want to visit to get a patient number and approximate time.  You have to arrive 5 patients before your turn and it takes about an hour by train to get there, but that is only twice an hour by the direct route.  So leave home around 2 hours before your appointment, and they do the surgery 9:00~12:00 then 16:00~18:00! 

Complicated. Getting there at 8:30AM and sit in a Hotel Lobby and make the reservation seems the easiest. But discover I can make a reservation at 8:30AM, then tell them when we can get there, about an hour later.

This is a variation of the HD music comic, where the background is animated between panels. I kind of like this, and having all the text on screen at once isn't frustrating the way it is when I animate the speech balloons. 

Got a reservation, and even using the web interface and just copy/paste my details in at exactly 8:30AM when it opened I was still patent number 28 in the morning! 😧 . 

Update: 2025/1/22

Visited doc. Filled out all the forms, waited, had first consultation and got medicine. I will initially go back once a week, if I can get a reservation that day, for a minor procedure, Rubber band ligation, then do that for 3 weeks. Then after that there are 3 more things to take care of that are a bit more painful to heal.  

So have a plan forward that isn't the ordeal I originally went through.

That is good 😊.

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