I have two recent knee replacements and even with the card given to me by the hospital, I still get the most thorough pat down by the TSA!
-----Original Message----- >From: John Francis <jo...@panix.com> >Subject: Re: Surgery tomorrow! > >On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 02:29:57PM -0500, Mark Roberts wrote: >> Bob W wrote: >> >> >Best of luck! I've had 8 operations under GA, 6 of them in the last 14 >> >years, and it's always rather nerve-wracking before you go in. Last time I >> >was being wheeled in it occurred to me that the anaesthetist looked and >> >sounded like Dr. Mengele, and the surgeon looked and sounded like Idi Amin. >> >Not the happiest of thoughts as you start to feel the drugs swooshing >> >around... >> >> Fascinating. Fortunately, there was no general anesthesia for Lisa: >> Block anesthetic plus a sedative did the trick. She's back home and >> doing splendidly with 8 screws and a plate in her arm. Airport metal >> detectors with her are really gonna be fun... > >She'll get used to it. My wife has a stainless steel & tungsten knee >(and, later on this year, will be getting a second one). She has a >form she shows the TSA folks. > >On another note - she can also relate to getting the best surgeons. >The first time she had to go to the emergency room for something it >just so happened that the head of surgery at the hospital was on >duty, covering for one of his assistants. So from that point on >if my wife had to go in for anything involving surgery the admitting >staff noticed the name on the record, and called in the top guns >(even, in one case, dragging him in off the golf course). We used >to laugh about this - it turned out that the doctor lived next door >to some friends of ours, and we met him socially on several occasions. > > > >-- >PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >PDML@pdml.net >http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow >the directions. ________________________________________ PeoplePC Online A better way to Internet http://www.peoplepc.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
