|  | Posted by -=Biscuit=- on 01/14/07 08:07 
Rev Turd Fredericks <turdfred2@catholic.org> delighted us to noend by taking a lime green crayon and scribbling in
 news:YYhqh.85046$t27.54019@fe08.news.easynews.com, on the
 hallowed day of Sat 13 Jan 2007 08:04:08p:
 
 > Respondant wrote:
 >> Rev Turd Fredericks wrote:
 >>
 >>> Respondant wrote:
 >>>> -=Biscuit=- wrote:
 >>>>
 >>>> <sig partially restored>
 >>>>
 >>>> Help Heather kick cancer's ass!  http://www.limeproject.org
 >>>>
 >>> SNIP>>>>>
 >>>
 >>>> But the WORST, by FAR, was the bone marrow
 >>>> biopsy.  I don't know if they still do it the same way these
 >>>> days, but I was given a tongue depressor and asked to assume
 >>>> the fetal-position while they shoved something that (IIRC)
 >>>> looked pretty-much like a cork screw into my hip.  Screwed
 >>>> it IN, and YANKED it out.  I NEVER felt pain like that
 >>>> before, and hope I never do again.  Bottom line?  Hodgkin's
 >>>> Disease.
 >>> A few months aqo I had a bone marrow biopsy and it was
 >>> totally painless. They have refined the technique and the
 >>> drugs they use. It stung a bit for a few days after, but no
 >>> worse than a cut would have. Thankfully for me, the news was
 >>> good.
 >>
 >> Good to know.  When I had it done (again, 1977) all I was
 >> given was a "local" and a tongue depressor to bite on.
 >>
 >> Never did find out why they didn't put me "out" for that, or
 >> at least do it while I was already "under" having the lymph
 >> nodes removed.
 >>
 >>
 > It's possible that a general anesthetic might affect the bone
 > marrow in some way. I was given a combination of versed and
 > demorol  or something like that. Apparently, as the Dr
 > explained it to me, it still hurts like hell, but you don't
 > remember it.
 >
 >
 
 Sounds like childbirth :)
 
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