When I was a kid I watched many western movie and TV shows. I always feared being shot with an arrow or stabbed with a knife.To me it was an almost phobic dread of what I believed would be a terrible fate. Well, this surgery proved me right. but added a whole new aspect to the injury.
The day after surgery, the surgeon's PA came in to check on me. We were discussing the incisions and soreness and he said " basically you have been in a controlled knife fight"...I hadn't thought of it that way but he is correct,
Now, thinking back to those poor TV cavalry soldiers who took an arrow, lance or bowie knife to the gut...If they survived, it would be a long painful recovery for sure. However, if it happened today, they would wake up with yet another painful reminder of the encounter...A FOLEY CATHETER!!!
Poor old Trooper Dobbs might think it was some terrible form of Comanche torture designed to add insult to injury!
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