Good news: The morning after having my plumbing roto-rooted under general anesthesia, I feel better than I did the morning after I had my toenails removed with Novocain and a pair of pliers.
Of course, I’m also on better pain meds. Hooray!
Yesterday afternoon – LATE YESTERDAY AFTERNOON, as in 22 hours, 30 minutes after I last tasted food and 9 hours after I last drank anything, including water – I underwent a hysteroscopy and D&C to remove a benign polyp from my uterus.
As with any of my recent outings (See Grand Canyon & Toenails entries), this too was an adventure! Keep reading for the blow-by-blow recap – but only if you haven’t recently eaten.
Yearly Archives: 2005
The Rest of the Toes Story… Or How I Learned They Needed to Go
You know by now that I have no big-toe nails. Removed they were, by the venerable Dr. Brett Roeder, Team Limoncello official podiatrist and husband of my good friend Yvette. As I said to him after he deposited said toenails into a urine specimen jar, “I like your wife better than you.”
Well, now you get to read the rest of the story… or How I came to learn that my toenails should be removed.
If you are at all squeamish about your toenails or fingernails, then you should probably stop reading HERE. If you are considering writing a letter to your Congressman or Senator in support of John McCain’s anti-torture bill and you need amunition: MAKE SURE YOU ATE AN HOUR AGO AND PROCEED.
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Team Limoncello Traverses Grand Canyon
STOOKS, OLSON, BERTINELLI TRIUMPH IN RIM-TO-RIM ADVENTURE
By Stacy “Toes” Feducia Bertinelli
Team Limoncello Sporting News
GRAND CANYON, Ariz. – We came. We saw. We walked back to the car.
We walked back – from the North Rim to the South Rim, over 24 miles with a combined 10,230 feet of elevation-change, through 10 layers of rock, spanning 545 million years of geology.
In one day.