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This morning was my first Mohs surgery. The nurses and doctor are all very nice and we chatted away about Snowpocalypse 2015 (light snow again this morning) and random topics. They even gave me a plastic piggie to squeeze during the Novocain shot into my eye socket. (I did my breathing exercise but I forgot to squeeze the piggie. It wasn't much pain anyway, less than at the dentist.) I got some reading done in the waiting room during the biopsy, too.
Turns out they got it all on the first round, so I was in and out in less than two hours. Now I have an enormous fatass bandage over my left eye which has to stay on until tomorrow. It looks awful, but I feel fine, no pain. Lack of depth perception is a problem, more so than I figured. I have to watch carefully going up and down stairs. When the bandage comes off, I'll probably have a shiner (my poor left eye has been much put upon lately) and I have to change dressings and apply ointments etc. for a bit, but no complications are expected. They'll take out the stitches and do Mohs on the other BCC next Thursday.
I met Pretzel at Border Cafe for lunch, Cajun blackened chicken and catfish with jambalaya. He set me up with a HDMI->DVI adapter, so I'm set to settle in with my new Raspberry Pi and work on DSP for a bit. Feels like a fish returning to water.
Turns out they got it all on the first round, so I was in and out in less than two hours. Now I have an enormous fatass bandage over my left eye which has to stay on until tomorrow. It looks awful, but I feel fine, no pain. Lack of depth perception is a problem, more so than I figured. I have to watch carefully going up and down stairs. When the bandage comes off, I'll probably have a shiner (my poor left eye has been much put upon lately) and I have to change dressings and apply ointments etc. for a bit, but no complications are expected. They'll take out the stitches and do Mohs on the other BCC next Thursday.
I met Pretzel at Border Cafe for lunch, Cajun blackened chicken and catfish with jambalaya. He set me up with a HDMI->DVI adapter, so I'm set to settle in with my new Raspberry Pi and work on DSP for a bit. Feels like a fish returning to water.