Posted by -=Biscuit=- on 01/14/07 08:07

Rev Turd Fredericks <turdfred2@catholic.org> delighted us to no
end 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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