Since this is the mundane stuff i must share thread, I’m going to share some mundane stuff.
On Tuesday @ 7:45am PST, I will be getting circumcised for the second time in 38 years. I am so lucky to have not one but two problems that make this necessary. I have Baianitis Xerotica Obliterans, it’s like an yeast infecition- very painful. I Also have Phimosis, which is a tightening of the foreskin. Think of a too small ring around the tip of the penis. It makes erections painful, if they happen at all. Soap & water cause the infection to burn with pain. This whole experience has just been soo much fun. :rolleyes: Speaking of fun I have not been able to have sex since September (not even by myself). I’m lucky that I had a low sex drive to begin with.
I was circumcised as a baby, but I’m on the small size, while having a genous amount of foreskin, so now to fix things they must remove the rest. Far too many people have had to look at my penis, and that was not nearly as fun as you might think it could have been. I can’t wait until it’s over. I just hope theres no earthquakes on Tuesday morning. This is San Francisco after all.
(sfx)rumbling(/sfx)
Nurse the quake is over, but since you are already under the operating table, would you look for Mr. Fogmage’s appendage. It got away from me during the quake.
Good luck, Fomage. I know how miserable extremely personal health problems can make a person, both having them and having them treated (how about the janitor?! Let’s have him in here to take a look!).
And it may comfort you to know you are not alone in your fear of the combination of earthquake and surgery on your personal reigons. When my husband had his vasectomy, we were in Misawa, northern Japan, which has considerable earthquake activity. We had a very good friend there who, while he and his wife both wanted the procedure, absolutly refused to get a vas there, for fear an earthquake would strike at a critcal moment, and cause his testicles to go rolling away across the floor.
From a woman’s perspective, all the peeking can be just as bad. I lost a baby a number of years back and I’m sure that everybody on the ward had a peek at me before I went for surgery. They brought in a group of young interns just as I was hemmoraging and there is where I drew the line.
It was very painful both physically and emotionally and to have your body used as a learning tool at that point was a bit much for me.
Good luck on your surgery!
We are, each of us angels with only one wing,and we can only fly by embracing one another
fogmage, I had the same worry about an earthquake happening when I had laser eye surgery last year (I live in Southern California). I actually brought it up with my doctor, who advised me that the laser machine would automatically shut off if something like that happened.
I don’t suppose they do this sort of thing with a laser now, do they? At any rate, you know that most of the earthquakes we get are a gentle swaying rather than a sharp jolt, and ususally with enough buildup to give a bit of a warning to stop doing anything until it passes.
Fogmage, in reading your OP, you mentioned TWO problems that necessitated your surgery. The first thing that flashed into my mind was that you had two…uh…ya know…opportunities for circumcision, if you get my drift.
Anyway, I hope it went well. Keep a stiff upper…no, I can’t, I just can’t.
The Dave-Guy
“since my daughter’s only half-Jewish, can she go in up to her knees?” J.H. Marx
Well everything went well & no earthquakes.
It was still a strange experience. I hope this takes care of things & I can get back to my more or less normal life.
Thank You for the support.
I thought you might like this; while waiting in my room to go to the OR, the janitors came by to check the bathroom. Of course I’m sitting there in a gown that didn’t fit me.
Reading this, I couldn’t help but think about that scene in one of the James Bond movies, where Sean Connery is strapped to a table with a huge laser burnning thur it between his legs. I had that image in my mind as I lay on the operating table and they moved the lights & other equipment into place.
