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Doubts…

...so many doubts... ...and they don't seem to make any sense... For those that have been following my ramblings on this site for a while... You know that I have a surgery upcoming in a bit. Those folks will probably also know that I am eager to get it done with, but I am not eager for the surgery and recovery time, as those are always hard on me. I guess surgeries are never fun, and recovery is always a challenge and hard. But I was just hoping that I'd have several more years in between the last surgery and this one... But, I'm not that lucky... […]

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#doubts#health#life

On this day in 1610, the only recorded performance of Shakespeare's play "Macbeth" during his lifetime. #Shakespeare

On this day in 1862, the first pasteurisation test is completed by Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard. #Pasteurisation

On this day in 1902, Marie and Pierre Curie discover the radioactive element radium. #Curie #Science

On this day in 1951, surgeon Dan Gavriliu surgically reconstructed a human organ for the first time. #Surgery

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Day 21 cont

2025 April 19
“Surgeon under investigation over ‘chilling’ video of him tearing down teal’s corflute: This video is a stark reminder of the breadth of harmful misogynistic attitudes across the community.

“What we saw in that video was not just vandalism – it was a chilling display of misogyny and intimidation.”

A spokesperson for Ryan’s campaign confirmed on Friday that a donation made by (Prof.) #GregMalham had been rejected and his money refunded.

Ryan – a #paediatric #neurologist, #researcher and #professor prior to her political career – said the video was deeply concerning, but not an isolated incident.”

The fact that Ryan worked in the same medical field at the same level (ie: Colleagues) makes this a *targeted* action.

#AusPol / #EpworthHealthCare / #Epworth / #Melbourne / #surgery / #AHPRA / #ProfessorAndrewStripp / #RespectVictoria / #ProfessorKateFitzGibbon / #hostility <archive.md/VzPil> / <theage.com.au/national/victori> (paywall)

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@apenkop @koen @waag @marleenstikker
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patient/corpse out of the painting by force!

#EugenRochko @Gargron #plushtodon inventor

⭕Ouch ouch‼️ No, really a royal ouch, because there was no #Anesthesia back then

1846 Anesthesia #HarvardUniversity #Harvard

"John Collins Warren, the School’s first dean, provides the first public demonstration of anesthesia in #surgery"

Medical innovations and scientific advances at #HarvardMedicalSchool through the decades
hms.harvard.edu/about-hms/hist

What a date! 😂

...and more preparations... I finally called the hospital to inform about my upcoming surgery and they had the best date for me! I guess many people were/are superstitious and they don't want it... So when she offered it to me, I just laughed a lot and took it gladly... You probably can guess the day they offered me... Yes! Friday the 13th (of June). Well, it's  little later than I hoped (as the surgeon had mentioned eind of May, early June), bit hopefully I can recover well enough and still make it for the holidays... But yeah... Now, the countdown really begins! […]

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Very happy that #Lúthien doesn't seem to be in pain after her massive #surgery on tuesday, see this post (in #Dutch).

She's very unhappy if I put her into the cage, but I have to: if she exerts too much force on her hind leg, chances are the whole construction will break. That would mean the entire leg will have to be amputated.

So I let her out as much as I can. I abandoned the desktop PC I use for work, because that's on the second floor. I work on my laptop now, in the living room. She loves to be with me.

The #crowdfund I started to pay the huge #vet bill is here:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/luthien-de-bionische-kat

In #Dutch, yes, but you know how to translate that, right..?



#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon

Surgery to correct a detached retina happened two days ago. (Fast medical response!)

I've been working hard to heal as fast as I can.

Surgeon tells me to keep my head down as much as possible, so I arrange pillows to sleep or nap on my stomach without pressing on my eye.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retina

At the 24-hour post-op checkup, the surgeon only had to glance briefly inside my eye before he said everything looked good and said I could go go home...come back in a week for another checkup.

The surgery was performed in El Paso, and a gas bubble was deliberately left in my eye. My home in the mountains is at high elevation. Until that bubble disappears, I have to convalesce in the Tularosa Basin.

A day before surgery, my peripheral vision loss was a small black cloud. A day after surgery it was a light gray cloud. This morning, it's hard to notice the vision degradation in that area. This is encouraging progress.

Hip update…

...kind of... 😇 I start writing this post 5 days before the scheduled call from the surgeon. I got the puncture done 8 days ago. And the surgeon will call me in 5 days (as I write this). Unfortunately... It's a 15:00 call, so I'll have the whole day to be anxious about it. As I'm already anxious about it now. I mean, I know I need a surgery. I know that hip bowl (or is it a cup?) needs to be placed in the right position again. So my leg can stop "wobbling", so it can stop tingling, […]

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#anxiety#health#hip