Mike, welcome back! Seven inch scar is good. When it comes to scars, big is good. Well, up to say 14 inches, or 10 anyway. A three inch scar is not really good and two inches isn't a scar.
My dear old Dad, who is seventy eight now, and still Bull Of The Woods, just had his first surgery. He was nervous. We're standing there over him with the nurse in the recovery room and he's all smiles. First time I've ever seen my Dad...well, stoned; he was cute, really. And he tells the nurse, "I'm not a virgin any more. I lost my vir-gin-in-ty." "Oh." "Yah. Been operated on. Been in surgeried."
Wild guess, unrelated to my Dad ~ Are you anxious about how the nerve is recovering? (Well, I guess that would be answered "of course".)
Good to hear about the state of the military hospitals. Been in a few hospitals recently myself, public ones, and was impressed. But was in a V.A. one in about 1974 and it scared the dickens out of me. (Might have been just too impressionable. And hey, somebody was screaming, loud and continuously, in the next room.)
And BTW, from "Paul's Limited and Mixed-Up History Files", some people say the greatest reformer of military field hospitals was Florence Nightingale. In the 1700's somewhere. Maybe it was the Crimean War, if it happened in that century. She convinced the British their hospitals were killing more combat troops than the enemy, and was far ahead of her time in the presentation of her arguments, using brilliantly organized and colored statistical graphs to quantify the causes of death as a function of time and conditions. They're very impressive, still. She lobbied exhaustively on the troops behalf.
She would have been most definitely "wired". She was really quite a heroine. Addict. Or maybe that was someone else.
Sounds to me like you're in good hands. But "questions" about how things heal have always been good for me. But also, some stuff doesn't get better right away; it sort of has to grow. This is free advice. But I really should charge for that quality of history discourse. |
