pictures of life post brni’s shoulder surgery. here’s the “iceman” which is essentially a small beer cooler with a fish tank pump in it. this is the thing that has enslaved me. i fill it to the brim with ice, fill again with water enough to cover the bottom of the pump, hook up the massive blue hoses to brni’s shoulder pad and then plug it in. it whines frigid water up into the shoulder pad, keeping brni’s shoulder from swelling and reeking havoc. he needs to be hooked up to this 24/7 for 2 weeks. i love fishing ice out of the cooler out on the deck at 4:30 in the morning. it’s what i live for.
this is what happens to a brni when linked to the iceman.
today we removed the dressing for the first time. it looks like the surgeon was unable to save the top of brni’s sun tattoo, but to compensate, added some lovely purple marks of his own.
wow. this is a tiny tiny incision! amazing what they can do laproscopically, isn’t it?
but, no matter how bad things get, you can’t keep a good brni down…well, maybe down, but never offline.
January 9th, 2010 at 7:13 pm
Laproscopic surgery is the way to go. It cuts the healing time down amazingly.
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January 9th, 2010 at 2:27 pm
Wow, that is a serious piece of equipment. With those giant tubes, Brni looks like he’s hooked up to the matrix or something.
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January 9th, 2010 at 2:32 am
Ouch! Well it’s only a couple of weeks so maybe you can have fun with it.
Go and get an alien facehugger model and velcro it to the top of the pad so it looks like you’ve got an alien feeding off your shoulder. 😉
Too bad about the tattoo though. Can you get a good artist to repair the top portion?
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January 9th, 2010 at 3:34 am
considering how small the incisions are, i’m sure the damage to the tat will be minimal.
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