Have you ever had surgery? What for?
Is the first word of my title a verb or an adjective? Let me know what you think while I detail two surgeries in answer to the prompt.
Many years ago I had my wisdom teeth out. There’s nothing notable about that story except for going to work as a DJ while still on the pain meds. For one weather forecast I read, “With an overnight low of 96. Sorry, that‘s 66.“
Years later I needed to have another tooth extraction. The Aussie dentist came in, looked at my X-rays and my mouth, and said something equivalent to, “We’ll have that out in no time!” Unfortunately he was wrong. There was a great deal of pulling and yanking on the recalcitrant tooth. Under heavy local anesthetic I felt none of that, but I did feel the notepad and other folded papers in his lab coat pocket hitting me repeatedly in the face. I believe the kink term for this is “teabagging.”
The only other major surgery I’ve had (I don’t count the literally dozens of benign skin cancer removals) was a septoplasty. In my adolescence someone diagnosed me with a deviated septum, but I then waited until my 60s to have to corrected. The first surgeon found that it was a bit beyond his expertise and referred me to a colleague who did the procedure along with rebuilding my nasal walls to widen them and allow for more passage of air. I do think my nose is wider than it used to be (ah, vanity!) but I can breathe better, so that’s a plus.
Though I didn’t enjoy irrigating my nose with the plastic bottle and saline; that was just unpleasant. And some people chose to use Neti pots??
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