When one goes to the hospital to have something REMOVED, one generally does not expect to come out looking like Martin Short as Jiminy Glick. But, in a nutshell, this is essentially what happened to me this week.
Yes, dear readers, your curmudgeon had an emergency appendectomy this week. Using modern laparoscopic methods, snip, snip and we were done. Oddly, that also means three scars rather than one, but apparently that, too, is the modern way.
But, to my point - it turns out that the biggest issue in recovery was NOT pain management and the like, but GAS management! It was like they inflated me to check for leaks or something. And no Gas-X to get rid of it - oh,no - "walk it out."
Modern medicine: may the gas be with you!
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