I had a highly productive day yesterday. I spent three hours in hospital finally having the physical evidence of being used as a sixteen year old human yo-yo removed.
It was my first experience of undergoing surgery while still awake, although quite heavily sedated, and it was very strange listening to the surgeon and the radiographer discussing what they were doing.
I was hoping that I’d be able to watch but the monitors were obviously set up for the surgeon rather than for my benefit and I couldn’t see.
I don’t think it’s particularly weird that I wanted to watch, apart from being quite fascinating to a former nurse, it would have been nice to see that unpleasant reminder of a traumatised adolescence disappearing.
Now, onto other matters.
When I published my list of odd facts about me a while ago, several people commented that there were items on that list that suggested much broader stories explaining them.
I agree and so I’m going to spend the next few posts expanding some of those facts to give a broader picture of the little oddity that was Malcolm (aka Malc & Mac) McLachlan.
Some of the stories are quite funny, some of them are fairly unhappy and several of them, in the best traditions of drama, are a mixture of both.
I may have had to put up with more than my fair share of problems as a child and a teenager but one thing I can never complain about is that my life was ever dull.
Coming up next then is number 7 on the list which is a story I did tell quite a while ago but it bears revisiting as it really is quite funny. It wasn’t funny when it happened, at least not to me, but eventually I managed to laugh about it.
Love
I am glad your “reminder” is gone. I hope you heal well and with no scar tissue to bother you. Hopefully that will remove or reduce the effects you have had to repeatedly suffer.
I can really understand your wanting to see it all. Many people love to watch what our ICU doctors do, and they know I will always help them because I find it fascinating.
I look forward to the future stories of your many childhood adventures.
Hugs,
Scottie
Scottie
All indications are that it’s healing well and I feel a lot better knowing that something has been done.
Love
Mac
What is a ‘human yo-yo’?
Frank
When I was 16, one of the boys who was bullying me knocked me to the floor, grabbed me by the balls and lifted me clear off the ground. He then quite pretty much used me as a yo-yo like that before letting go and allowing me to fall back onto the floor.
This happened several times causing a nasty and very visible varicocele which I’ve finally had treated
Malcolm