For anyone considering a visit to randomness central:
Please reconsider. As of last night (immediately after my trio of visitors left, in fact) I'm in isolation. The germs that I've impressively managed to grow are so resistant to most antibiotics that they don't want them released to the free world. So I'm iso and, frankly, pretty depressed about it.
This doesn't technically mean that I can't have visitors. Not at all. Instead anyone who visits has to don the same gear that the doctors and nurses have to wear in order to see me - a yellow paper gown, latex gloves and a yellow paper mask. I feel like I'm in that bad Dustin Hoffman movie "Outbreak" (and yes he realizes that 'bad Dustin Hoffman movie' is disturbingly redundant these days.)
So that's it. They don't think the rest of the world can handle my super cooties. Circle, circle, dot, dot...
(addendum: and then there's this chesnut from my primary surgeon who just stopped in...
There's a "good chance" that they're going to let me go with wraps on my foot and not do the second surgery until a later date. Instead I'd get to deal with visiting nurses and the effing infusion center until they're ready to do the second surgery. Seriously? I don't know if I can handle this.
The only "good" news is that this doctor, who is absolutely excellent, seems to talk through his options before settling on one. This might not be the solution. Yet...
To quote the masterful Lee Hazelwood -
aren't you glad i never
be glad i never
i'm sure glad I never
owned a gun
tell that freakin' doctor that you've been down that road before and it didn't work. of course if it means you get out sooner you can probable see yoko and/or steve
Posted by: Dennis on January 5, 2005 07:47 AMI guess this puts the kibosh on the hookers...
Posted by: Frankenstein on January 5, 2005 08:15 AMI already called and spoke to the Wound Care Center nurses who, frankly, love me. They're going to have a meeting with my doctor.
In 100% honesty? I don't see the point in going through too many more hoops for a literally useless foot. We'll see...
Posted by: mrw on January 5, 2005 08:58 AMUnless you can find hookers that like to play dress-up...
Posted by: mrw on January 5, 2005 08:59 AMHow do you say surgical mask in Japanese?
Posted by: John Cunniffe on January 5, 2005 09:01 AMSO-I think you should demand to have it all done and get it over with, that monkey has been on your back WAYYYYYY to long! How long will you be in if they don't ? I don't want to send you a present and have it not reach you!
Posted by: Holly on January 5, 2005 10:47 AMOh dear. Be persuasive. Tell them that you want to get this over with. I mean, if that's what you want to do. Obviously you and your doctor have a better grasp of the situation.
Get well, damn it!
Sorry I can't be there in a nurse's uniform. ;)
Posted by: LadyCrumpet on January 5, 2005 12:23 PMUnless you can find hookers that like to play dress-up...
Yeah, that's a hopeless dream...
How do you say surgical mask in Japanese?
I'm going with su-gee-koh mas-su-koh.
Chins up, Cootie-mon.
Posted by: deano on January 5, 2005 12:24 PMI always knew there was something special about you... now I know that it's your ability to develop super-cooties.
I'd watch out, though... if you see any men in dark suits hovering around your room, they're probably looking for the next big thing in germ warfare.
Posted by: Kirsten on January 5, 2005 02:11 PMThis all seems very unpleasant.
Posted by: Ken Goldstein on January 5, 2005 10:49 PM