Daaaamn. I am very glad those are no longer in you, Vortex.

When I had a lumpectomy on my breast the surgeon showed me the cyst during the procedure

They did that for me during the biopsy of my left breast a few years ago. I was fascinated. But then, after an accident in metal shop, I watched the doctor sew my fingers back up. What can I say, medical stuff doesn't squick me.

Great googly moogly, Vortex! All that was inside you?

Yowza.

So, has anyone ever wondered what a fibroid looks like? Well, they took a picture of what they removed yesterday. As a point of reference, the surgeon is holding the basin in both hands. [link]

Daaaaaaaaamn, Vortex. You are an overachiever, I tell you what.

The whole experience involved lying in a pool of my own blood and smelling my flesh burn and watching smoke of me dissipate into the air. It was just nasty all the way around.

How many fibroids is that? Too many fibroids.

I like doctors who will let me see what's going on.

My insatiable curiousity: Vortex, how much did all that weigh? Are they dense or, I dunno, spongy? You must feel immensely better now!

IMeN, can antihistamines just stop working? I've been taking Benadryl for two days, ever since the gardening yesterday morning, and right now, two hours after taking the last one, I'm sneezing and teary and can't breathe and there's a maddening tickle in the back of my right nasal sinus. This Must Stop. Should I go on and take a different antihistamine?

Wow, that does look scarily like popcorn shrimp in BBQ sauce. Glad they are out!

Yikes, ita, that's way too much reality!

ita that is too much reality.

Vortex, you must feel so much better with all of that out of you.

Normally the procedure would have been done under general, but I had no health insurance and the hospital staff was working gratis as a favour to family, so anesthesia was minimal for economic reasons. Whoa.