BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...

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From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 02 Dec 23 - 03:53 PM

I knew they would solve all your problems!

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From: Mrrzy
Date: 19 Dec 23 - 10:30 AM

Once again, surgery (last Weds) went well, but I was bedeviled by a weird rare unusual side issue, of course, why wouldn't I be.

Remember dickeys (dickies?)? An article of clothing consisting of a collar from which a rectangle of cloth hung down? One wore them, if one wore them, under open-necked shirts to make it look as if you had another shirt on under it, without actually wearing 2 layers.

The collar was the surgical scar. Not a big deal. But the dickey! Oh, wow, they must have been placing, and then tearing off, amazing numbers of monitor sticky things. I have hives like you wouldn't imagine, from my dust mite allergy, and them removing every single layer of skin from my entire chest, up over my shoulders, AND around the surgical site, from them using a type of dressing that rips your skin off when removed.

It is a sight, and was absolute TORTURE.

On the other hand, they added benedryl into my muscle-relaxer/pain pill mix, and I had a FUN few days of torture before the pain meds started upsetting my stomach.

I am *not* a boring patient.

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 Dec 23 - 01:32 PM

Mrrzy, that sounds simply hideous.
But good that they corrected the problem they were after.

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 19 Dec 23 - 02:44 PM

On the Afloat thread I wondered how things went, but I see here life was not boring for the last week. Those adhesive devices sound horrible!

My mother was allergic to some of the plastic medical tape and so they used paper tape instead. To get a strong enough effect it sometimes involved lots of layers of paper tape.

Benadryl is actually quite a miracle drug. I remember hearing a lecture one time where the professor paused the main talk with an aside to discuss that. I don't remember all of the details, except that it has many applications in medicine.

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: Mrrzy
Date: 09 Jan 24 - 07:37 PM

Hmmm. What do y'all know about multiple myeloma?

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From: Backwoodsman
Date: 10 Jan 24 - 04:12 PM

I don’t know anything about it personally, but you might look here.

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From: keberoxu
Date: 12 Jan 24 - 06:52 PM

Never heard of it before. And,
friend Mrrzy, why do you ask ...?

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: Thompson
Date: 13 Jan 24 - 01:13 AM

Yikes, Mrrzy - if you have to have stickies torn off again (hopefully not), a tip from the world of moustache-waxing: holding an ice block on the place for a little while before the rrrippp (use gloves!) means the skin's numbed and it doesn't hurt so much.

Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times...
From: Mrrzy
Date: 13 Jan 24 - 06:44 PM

Moustache wax! Dad used chapstick...

MGUS and high RF. Fun blood work discoveries while ruling out other causes for leg weakness.