So today I had the pleasure of going to visit my favorite surgeon at Northwestern --- Dr. Nagle. Nicest guy, but always is running at least over an hour behind schedule. So I had a 10am appt, and got there a few minutes early. Sure enough at 1015am his nurse asks me if I could please let someone go ahead of me. Given that I am a nice guy, I say OK, only to then get called back to a room at 1030am and not see Dr. Nagle until almost 12pm. Then when I got to see him, it wasn't the most pleasant of visits. Occasionally (more frequently lately), I have been experiencing some growth around where the feeding tube is. So, Dr. Nagle has these special sticks that look like long matches, that is Silver Nitrate, and when applied to the skin BURNS like crazy. But it takes away the growth. So he had to do this again today (remind you I am totally conscience and on no sedatives or pain killers!!!). Afterwards, he decided that in order to remove it hopefully forever, next Friday we'd do an outpatient mini-surgery to remove the growth. At least there will be sedatives involved...
After the appt, I stumbled into a very familiar face --- It was Monica --- my 1st ever nurse when I was admitted @ Northwestern. She was there on an off-day and I was getting ready to leave. It was nice to spend a few minutes talking to her. She was very excited to see me (if I may say so myself) and the hug was great. I failed to follow-thru with a phone number...
Only took an hour and half to drive down there and almost 2 hours to drive home... Fun day... Can't wait for next Friday...
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