Random Thoughts - Part III The Search for Spark (No Politics)

[weederr33]

Originally Posted by humfrz

Well OK.

Ol humfrz is going under the knife .... again, on Thursday.

The last scan showed another tumor growing on or near my bladder.

They are going to turn the robot loose again in my belly to remove it.

Yep, they call it a "transurethral resection of a bladder tumor."

That will make six times they have opened up my belly. I tried to tell them to just put a zipper in there!

I wish you the best of luck and hopefully you can let us know how it went!

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by weederr33

I wish you the best of luck and hopefully you can let us know how it went!

Thanks, weederr33.

I'll let you know how it turns out.

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by weederr33

I wish you the best of luck and hopefully you can let us know how it went!

Well, folks, ol humfrz went under the bladder robot thing at O-dark-30 this morning.

The anesthesiologist told me to think of a pleasant place to go, so, I said that I was going to take that pretty little surgeons nurse with me. She then turned the gas valve on HI and that's all I remember.

The surgeon, the same one that chopped out one of my kidneys, started by running his instrument (a combo light, camera, snipper and scoop) in and out of pee-pee tail into the bladder.

He spotted two masses (tumors) and chopped them up and drug out the pieces for a biopsy. He then flushed my bladder with chemo juice and let that slosh around for a while.

They then pumped me full of oxy drugs and sent me home with a supply.

The lab results are pending.

I'm feeling pretty good (at least as long as the oxy drugs hold out), except when I pee, it feels like someone put a glass tube up my pee-pee tail and then smashed it and I'm peeing through the broken pieces of glass. Yep, I read about that torture technique somewhere -

Thanks for your interest.

[Wally86]

Originally Posted by humfrz

Well, folks, ol humfrz went under the bladder robot thing at O-dark-30 this morning.

The anesthesiologist told me to think of a pleasant place to go, so, I said that I was going to take that pretty little surgeons nurse with me. She then turned the gas valve on HI and that's all I remember.

The surgeon, the same one that chopped out one of my kidneys, started by running his instrument (a combo light, camera, snipper and scoop) in and out of pee-pee tail into the bladder.

He spotted two masses (tumors) and chopped them up and drug out the pieces for a biopsy. He then flushed my bladder with chemo juice and let that slosh around for a while.

They then pumped me full of oxy drugs and sent me home with a supply.

The lab results are pending.

I'm feeling pretty good (at least as long as the oxy drugs hold out), except when I pee, it feels like someone put a glass tube up my pee-pee tail and then smashed it and I'm peeing through the broken pieces of glass. Yep, I read about that torture technique somewhere -

Thanks for your interest.

Sounds like peeing is a bad time but hopefully your pee hole heals up and you're good to go in no time. Also, cheers to your biopsies coming back clean!

[Sapphireho]

I have to say, this time with covid was the easiest.

We had a racoon on our porch last night. Caught it with the doorbell camera. We have had a badger, a rockchuck, lots of rabbits and squirrels, and every bird from quail to great horned owls, but this is our first racoon we have seen in the neighborhood. Nasty bastards. Hope it was just passing thru.

[Stephen W.]

Originally Posted by Sapphireho

< snip > ...this is our first racoon we have seen in the neighborhood. Nasty bastards. Hope it was just passing thru.

That was a recon scout. He’ll report back to HQ who will determine the size of the first wave.

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Stephen W.

That was a recon scout. He’ll report back to HQ who will determine the size of the first wave.

Fer sure fer sure. @Sapphireho , I suggest you be prepared, especially if they are rabid. I recommend at least 4 coon dogs and a pump shotgun.



PS. I'm glad you are over your last bout of covid.

[NoHaveMSG]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

I go through feast-famine cycles. It's my less hectic time of the year now.

Next week will be my 7th out of the last two months working out of town. Plus side. Get to hang with Itchi again.

[Spuds]

Sorry to bring up car talk, but the detailing section is dead and I'm frustrated. I think I'm going to give up on using megs205 polish. I just cannot get it to stop hazing today. It behaves completely different than literally every source on the Internet says it should. Looked stuff up, tried different techniques and swapped pads for 2 hours and it just all sucks. Maybe all my pads are dead, or there's something wrong with my DA? I don't remember it being this difficult. I seem to be the only person on the Internet who can't figure it out. Of course detailing forums are basically dead now too...

Any of y'all use something different you like?

[NoHaveMSG]

Originally Posted by Spuds

Sorry to bring up car talk, but the detailing section is dead and I'm frustrated. I think I'm going to give up on using megs205 polish. I just cannot get it to stop hazing today. It behaves completely different than literally every source on the Internet says it should. Looked stuff up, tried different techniques and swapped pads for 2 hours and it just all sucks. Maybe all my pads are dead, or there's something wrong with my DA? I don't remember it being this difficult. I seem to be the only person on the Internet who can't figure it out. Of course detailing forums are basically dead now too...

Any of y'all use something different you like?

Too bad spcmafia can’t log in. He’d have some answers.

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Spuds

Sorry to bring up car talk, but the detailing section is dead and I'm frustrated. I think I'm going to give up on using megs205 polish. I just cannot get it to stop hazing today. It behaves completely different than literally every source on the Internet says it should. Looked stuff up, tried different techniques and swapped pads for 2 hours and it just all sucks. Maybe all my pads are dead, or there's something wrong with my DA? I don't remember it being this difficult. I seem to be the only person on the Internet who can't figure it out. Of course detailing forums are basically dead now too...

Any of y'all use something different you like?

First off, don't expect too much from a red car paint.

Wash thoroughly using a camel hair brush and lye soap.

Rince with cistern water.

Apply Simonize wax.

Wipe off with an old T-shirt or better yet, baby diapers.

Yep, it's been a while since I've waxed a car -

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by humfrz

The anesthesiologist told me to think of a pleasant place to go, so, I said that I was going to take that pretty little surgeons nurse with me. She then turned the gas valve on HI and that's all I remember.

You're lucky she didn't leave it cranked up all the way. I bet she thought about it, you dirty old man, you.

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by Spuds

Any of y'all use something different you like?

Was it an unusually humid day? I've been using the same old can of Turtle Wax I bought right after I got the car. I learned the technique from a friend back when I was in the Navy. He'd lay down three coats of paste wax and never actually washed the car. Just rinsed it. Every so often he'd lay down another coat but only used soap when he planned to start the cycle all over again.


I bought a DA machine maybe eight years ago. Used it once.

[Spuds]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

Was it an unusually humid day? I've been using the same old can of Turtle Wax I bought right after I got the car. I learned the technique from a friend back when I was in the Navy. He'd lay down three coats of paste wax and never actually washed the car. Just rinsed it. Every so often he'd lay down another coat but only used soap when he planned to start the cycle all over again.


I bought a DA machine maybe eight years ago. Used it once.

Nah, thinking about it more, it's probably just the pads. Probably didn't wash them very well...