good thoughts to ogged! good riddance, kidney!
Oh, wow. I definetly didn't realize 4-7 days, having very little conception of what recovering from major surgery is like. I hope everything goes fine, and Ogged remembers to tell the surgeon that he's really earning his pay today.
Get well soon -gg-d! (Have a speedy recuperation!)
It's a beautiful day here in Chicago. I hope that helps everbody concerned, and that he'll be able to see it from his recovery room. Slate roofs and treatops in Hyde Park.
WD, a few years ago they'd have kept him in hospital for a couple of weeks. Luckily medical wisdom now has it that you get better sooner if you run free.
[Concentrates on radiating good thoughts.]
I hope this goes well. Poor -gg-d. Poor -gg-d's mother. But at least he'll have a stomach!
4: treat-ops = a CIA program based on giving candy to impressionable little kids, and making them repudiate revolutionary thinking.
Sending lots of good vibes and intense encouragement to Ogged, but most of it to his other kidney. Three cheers for the heroic kidney! And more cheers for the tummy too!
I had decided not to include this link [Fixed link. LB] in 2, but have changed my mind.
Sending lots of good vibes and intense encouragement to Ogged, but most of it to his other kidney. Three cheers for the heroic kidney! And more cheers for the tummy too!
You meant the three cheers thing literally, didn't you, S.?
Recover quickly, Ogged.
Hrmm.
Rah rah rah, sis boom bah, go [other] kidney!
Go surgery team, no fucking up allowed.
max
['Say with Hallmark.']
I want to say something jokey and cruel (to ogged) in the face of such earnestness, but I'll wait until we've definite evidence that he's through without problems. Till then, good luck.
I cannot believe that I'm the first to remark that the intestine-prep material is called "GoLytely," as if it were starring in Breakfast at Tiffany's." Did our gayness desert us in Ogged's hour of need?
It seems that the substance GoLytely causes the consumer of it to not, in fact, GoLytely, if my reading of the post is correct.
I'm in Chicago, and it is beautiful, and I can't believe that ogged is in surgery right now a couple miles from me. I know everything will be fine, but I still want to cry a little bit.
Go team!
One can't be jokey and cruel all the time. It would lose its sting.
O brave new world, that has such kidneys in it.
A man, a plan, a kidney -- Chicago!
Ogacihc -- y end ik anal panama.
Clear stool is an abomination, the Crystal Pepsi of butt. Clear pee, on the other hand, is divine.
Hitachi-sized vibes to ogged!
best luck to ogged!
And (I know bitch has blogged about this) what *is* it with the everybody-get-cancer now thing. I found out another (family member) last night :(
Cala, Standpipe, do you want to take this one? Or is there a special exemption for cancer threads?
I don't know, but a co-worker of mine came into my office this morning to tell me that his ex-girlfriend, who is 27, has just been notified that she has cancer in her liver. She had a tumor in her stomach removed about two weeks ago, and a tumor in her (I believe large intestine) removed about a year ago.
Seriously, what the fuck, cancer.
Goodness I wouldn't have realized that a cancer diagnosis was sad news without that helpful emoticon.
Tweet. Yellow card. But since it's the cancer thread, it's a yellow card delivered with a smile.
re: 25
My wife's mother has just had exactly the same diagnosis. Intestine and stomach (and possibly uterine) cancer.
It does seem to be everywhere.
Best wishes for Ogged though!
Best wishes, Ogged! Sending good thoughts your way!
Best again, Ogged. Illegitimi non carborundum.
All the best vibes to -gg-d today!
My dad had colon cancer a few years ago and had to do the GoLytely thing beforehand. Eventually he just took it into the bathroom with him and stayed there.
A friend of mine, on the other hand, got the generic GoLytely. Trust me (or, rather, him), there are worse things in the world than GoLytely. Namely, said generic.
Heartfelt good luck to Ogged.
And yes, it does indeed seem like it's spreading like a prairie fire. A dear friend's 20-year sister has brain cancer.
I cannot believe that I'm the first to remark that the intestine-prep material is called "GoLytely," as if it were starring in Breakfast at Tiffany's.
There's a Moon River joke in there somewhere.
You guys know that if we keep being nice to Ogged, it's just going to reward and encourage this behavior.
Since we don't want him to keep getting cancer just for the attention, we sent him a Mineshaft bear. It's all personalized and shit, so he can't in good conscience throw it away. Assuming he isn't the kind of guy who wants more than one of these in his life, that should be pretty good incentive to get and stay well.
(And as soon as I find out his room number, it'll be accompanied by flowers, as planned.)
Get well, Ogged, or we'll keep on mortifying you.
That's it. I'm changing my name to "Potty GoLytely".
Good luck and good wishes to -gg-d and -gg-d's family.
36: That's not Rape Bear, is it? Because given Ogged's weakened condition it might be unwise to leave Rape Bear in the room with him.
Wearing that hospital gown though, he asked for it.
That's actually the very bear that Washington fucked the shit out of. Turned out he liked it.
No worries--Mineshaft bear will be bearing a little bear-sized boquet of red roses. It'll be date sex.
best wishes to Ogged, and hopefully he's in recovery by now...
Poor old Oggedy the Pooh. He's going to be quite annoyed when he learns that the real studs at the Mineshaft demand proof oftwo kidneys. Still, I wish Minixerxes well all the same.
Ogged, hope your surgery went well. Wishing you a speedy recovery.
So he is himself our only source of Oggednews? Can't anybody find out?
Damn, got busy and missed the chance to send pre-surgery good vibes. I'm sending extra-strength post-surgery double-plus good vibes now.
Also, in 26, "smile" s/b "smiley".
And I hope I don't get in trouble with a certain relatively frequent Unfogged commenter (and blogger extraordinaire) for saying this, but I'm sure all of us wish you the best, ogged.
