Necessary Mutilation

Weight: 279.5 lbs.

Well, I faced my worst fears after a partly sleepless night fretting about today’s removal of my groshong. I made the very stupid mistake of looking up “groshong catheter removal” on line late last night, in hopes of finding an encouraging article about this. Instead, I read a woman’s horrifying account of grossness and agony. When I joined Tom in bed and told him what I had done, nothing he could say eased my anxiety, and he got mad at me for researching the subject in the first place.

Somehow this morning I was a little more centered about it, and headed off with a tight grip on my Valium.

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