On 10 May 2013, at 16:47, Ann Sanfedele <ann...@nyc.rr.com> wrote: > with some trepedation - I have returned! :-)
Trepedation has to be better than trepanation! Welcome back! > > [...] > > I swore I heard someone say "whose carving?" when I was wheeled into op > room, to which I replied "where's Alan Alda?" - this turns out tohave > been a total hallucination - my doc on second follow up was quite amused > but assured me no one had said _that_ and evryone in the op theatre was > far to young to catch the reference, not to mention the inappropriateness. I > do wonder what was said that became "carving" to my ear. Last time I was under the knife the surgeon was a very shiny, black Nigerian, and the anaesthetist a very Aryan Austrian. As the anaesthetic kicked in I had the sudden panicky thought that I was about to be cut open by Idi Amin and Doctor Mengele... B -- 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.