Lyrical: Neck Biopsy

Was let into surgery early. Whole experience was a lot like getting into Disney at the "rope drop"

Once you've paid the enormous price of admission the odds are pretty good that you'll mostly be hanging out with nice people.

Mostly I was working on a surgery based comedy routine the whole time with the anesthesiologists, the nurse, the clerks and the surgeon. The effects of anesthesia I judge to be roughly equivalent to 7 glasses of champagne, except I felt them in my feet instead of in my quadriceps.

 So far the post surgery pain is minimal (or well managed by oxy)

Even with the offer of fifty bucks to the resident student** I was unable to secure the Cosmetic upgrades I was looking for.

I judge the lump looks a little bit smaller (though that was not the purpose of the biopsy, which was exclusively to get a large enough sample to please the cytologists) and the incision is no more than 2 inches.

With more than 70 kinds of cancer in the leukemia & lymphoma family, they need lots of tissue because they essentially use different stains to tell the different cancers from each other. Maybe I'm wrong but I'm picturing 70 different little sample slides* each with its own stain, and if the color lights up those, cells then I would be deemed positive for that variety or that marker that the stain stuck to.

*i picture  Microsope  plates like the 1/2" x 2" ones from 7th grade biology


I will overlook her comment about that being "garage pricing"