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Gall Bladder Guy
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Date Posted: 16:42:25 10/29/09 Thu
Back in the 80s, I had my gall bladder removed the old way, with an incision just below my right rib-cage. These days they use laparoscopy, and only two holes are made and no incision is required. Almost no shaving is NECESSARY.
The night before, I was shaved from the shoulders down to the top of my knee-caps, except for my armpits, by a girl who looked to be no more than twenty. It was arousing, of course, and I assumed she shaved what was NECESSARY.
One week later, I was in my surgeon's office for my follow-up visit and she asked me how I was feeling. I told her I was doing fine with my recovery, except for the awful itch which was driving me crazy. Puzzled, she asked me to show her what was itching, so I lowered my pants.
She was surprised when she saw how bald I was down there, and how irritated the whole area was as the hair started to grow back. She said, "Wow, someone got carried away with the razor!" She told me all that was NECESSARY was that my hair be removed from my nipple-line to just below my navel.
Clearly, there was a mix-up. The young aide somehow thought my shave had to be much more extensive than NECESSARY. But it was me who paid the price, the itching, for her error.
In all fairness to the girl, when I asked a nurse about this years later she told me aides are not the decision-makers. Her supervisor, usually an OR supervisor-nurse, assigns these jobs and tells the aide exactly what parts are to be shaved. So the girl was only doing what her boss told her was NECESSARY. We'll never know why she had the girl shave me so much more than the doctor expected.
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