The Infection Photo and the Pain Ball

The “Pain Ball” comes out today and then hopefully things will start to get normal.

The pain ball is a ball of local anesthetic you carry around in a murse and it dispenses this numbing medicine to my side where the surgery was performed at a selected dosage. It’s inserted into my side with a very small coil tube. And it just hangs there.

Pain ball before. Pain ball after one week.

Doctors can use this for any surgery, reducing hospital stays and this pain ball is why I left the hospital earlier than expected.

I talked with Ross who works with Dr. Parsons and he warned me that the coil tube is really inserted in there, probably about twelve inches, I thought it was in there an inch or two, when he told me that we both laughed, and I don’t know why. That thing is IN there man. My side has been totally numb since I left Rex, so it definitely works.

It’s a pretty cool concept and walking around with the murse is no big deal, just make sure nobody sees the tubing hanging from under your shirt going to the murse because that looks weird, like you have some weird disease.

Gosh, now I’d really like to know where this infection came from, nobody can narrow it down, Dr. Parsons was asking questions like, had I been out of the country? Could this infection come from some chemical at a golf course? How could it have formed in such a short time, it’s a possibility this infection formed two short months ago.

When we figure out where these “infections” or “pneumonias” come from, we’ll have REALLY made some progress right? Did this infection come from playing all those Three Doors Down songs this past year?

This is the lung with the infection before the surgery. Can you believe someone knows how to go into a human beings lung and remove an infection like this? Mind boggling. The infection was tested and tested and tested for cancer during the surgery and I will always remember those words.

“I can’t find cancer anywhere.” -Dr. Alden Parsons

“Mrrowwwl”-Ted