Because I had surgery again! This time I can post a picture of the part of my body that went under the knife:
Isn't it gross? It's a ganglion cyst. Usually it's on the wrist but of course I have to be different. I've been waiting to get it removed forever (I've had it for a year but my doctor didn't realize what it was until recently) but I had to wait for the end of the semester since it was on my right hand and I knew I would be unable to take notes or take my finals after surgery. Then I had to wait until after my other surgery and then when I was sure I wasn't going to need yet another surgery and we had finally gotten rid of the bacteria, I made the appointment for surgery. I could have had it drained but there is a higher recurrence rate and I didn't want it coming back and then having to wait yet again until the end of yet another semester.
So, now I can't use my thumb for five days and it will take three to four weeks before I can work out with it :-( I didn't think I would have a problem blogging since I don't use my thumb for anything but the space bar but I have to elevate my thumb and the dressing is pretty big and it's a little painful to type. So, my posts will be pithier than usual :-)
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That and, well, I work evenings.
Moonshadow, wasn't it St. Francis who came up with the term "Brother Ass" to refer to his body?
I'm not a Franciscan, so I hardly know, much less share, their charisms! ;-)
From, you know, that catholic encyclopedia, "he was ever so unsparing towards himself that at the last he felt constrained to ask pardon of 'Brother Ass', as he called his body, for having treated it so harshly."
When men address by proper names parts of their body, I tend to run the other way. Don't you?
"rolling out of the rack"
Boy, you really were in the Navy. Did your feet hit the deck on the way to the head? And when you went upstairs, did you use the hoist or the companionway? ;-)
Yep. Navy vet, Navy brat, mostly from Navy towns, and with most of my friends from when I was in service.
But no. No deck, head or companionway (or ladder). Do sometimes use 'line' instead of rope. And FUBAR, and 'three sheets to the wind', and 'not packing a full seabag'.
I was in the Air Force and we used a lot of airplaney-words. When you leave a place, you are "wheels up". The time you arrive is your "TOT" (time over target). When you recognize something you say "tally" (for tallyho). A member of the opposite sex is a "bogey", as in "Check out that bogey at 12 o'clock!". Oh, and we never point, we just say clock positions.
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