All Quiet On The Southern Front

Long post coming filled with heartbreak, poignancy, humor, wisdom, and a free lollipop entitled Christmas With A Machete Knife Hanging Over Your Head but I wanted to post a quick update for everybody who was worried about the upcoming surgery.

I knoweth not why, but I a$$$$ume that the new cleanout had to be done at the ho$pital for a good rea$on. All they did was the same thing that the Doctor 1 did -- clip out more stuff. Doctor One shot a load of novacaine into the tongue at his office and clipped and sent Roger off with a lollipop.

Doctor Two had him visit the hospital, where he had to have an EKG and blood test before surgery. They originally had him down for GENERAL ANESTHESIA. But they did local. Doctor Two clipped more stuff out of the tongue, doped him up with local anesthesia, and didn't even give him a complimentary lollipop.

See, originally they were going to do it at the hospital so that the path lab could give immediate updates on margins, but Doctor Two said he wasn't going to rely on those quickie updates. Why he didn't change it back to chair-novacaine clip is beyond my comprehen$ion, but I'm $ure there was $ome good reason. All went well and now we wait for the path results to come back with squeaky clean margins.

Don't want to get Doctor Two upset, though, as Roger's life now rests in his hands. And that, my friends, is, as the card advertisers say:

PRICELESS.