Necessary Mutilation

Weight: 275.5 lbs.

Well, now I’m holding steady at plus half a pound more than I was two days ago. Sigh.

Today I had my nearly six-week follow-up with the surgeon’s assistant (”M”), and was glad for the chance to cover a lot of territory. First off, I needed to ask about my still intermittently bleeding neck wound from where the groshong had been inserted. Last night before bed it looked like a swollen blood blister — all black and bulging. I knew it was gonna burst during the night, so I slept with it bandaged and, sure enough, the bandage was covered in blood in the morning. This debunks Dr. “P’s”  theory that the bleeding is due to my scratching it open in my sleep.

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