A
CUT UP
You have not heard from me for three months as I underwent an operation on about Jan 30. I thought
It would take about a month to recover but I got that wrong by about 3 months.
I sometimes forget my 90 year old body doesn’t heal so fast anymore. It’s proceedure is called called:
THE LAPAROSCOPIC HIATEL HERNIA REPAIR
AND NISSEN FUNDOPLICATION, TYPE FOURPOSTERIOR GASTROPEXY. (Four and
one half hours). performed
by Dr. Jonathan Carter and Team. (San Francisco).
You can view a similar operation
by Dr. Carter on YOU YUBE (UCSF Dr. Carter
hiatal Fundoplication)
It was called the Laparoscopic Hiatal Hernia Repair and
Nissen Fundoplication , Posterior Gastoropexy;
It took 3 or four doctors about Four and ¼ hours to accomplish this and
I am just recovering enough to get in my office for two or three hours a day. The work was done at UCSF under the expert tutelage
of Dr. Jonathan Carter and should last until I die, which is getting closer and
closer each day. This was the worst
type, there fore called Type IV.
It took me a while to get a translation of most of the
above, but what it all means is that they moved my stomach from the diaphragm
area back to where it belongs, below the Diaphragm. And here I thought I was in OK health for the
last 12 yours. Except for a small heart Antri-fibrolation, but everyone has
that nowadays, don’t they?
Believe this all began someplace in France, abiout 12 years
ago, in a small city serving a pretty good
Pizza in Dinan, France, a wonderful old walled town near the coast. Well, soon we were in Brugge, Belgium, but finally the
Whooping cough that I had contacted from
our snot nosed, waitress in Dinan had caught up with us. We were cauphing up a storm in the town, and our small hotels’ bar had
about 12 local beers on tap, but we were so sick we couldn’t even taste one of them.
Aside from all that, I am currently back in my Office after
about 3 months for about 3 or 4 hours
max. (I attribute that to my being semi-retired, and plus my operation).
Go to YOU TUBEUCSF DR. CARTER HIATEL
Fundoplication It’s kind of a gory mess, but the results
For those of you who have a morbid streak, look into stomach operation with my Doctor Carter via
YOUTUBE to see some really competent
people manipulate an organ.
THE SINKING OF THE
ESSEX
I have just finished
reading about the big news in early 1800’s, which involved the ramming and
sinking of a the Whaleship, Essex and the long several months d of deprivation of the crew in 3 small whaleboats for succor on the West
coast of Chile. For those of you in need, it is a detailed survival of how to cannibalize
a few of your crew-mates and barely survive for several months in a small boat
on the vast Pacific Ocean. The book (In the Heart of the Sea) starts
out with a history of Nantucket, the heart of the Whale industry.
While he rest of the U.S. in the early 1800‘s was in a precarious state,
Nantucket was the center of financial
wholeness due the the economics of the frugal Quakers. That time, there were
about 30 whaleboats in the Atlantic and Pacific. (there were still a few
whales left in the Atlantic.) I haven’t
mentioned that each trip to the Pacific would last for about 2.5 to 3 years. Maybe that’s why the wives
took to Opium so much.( Opium was in the medical kit of all whale ships.)
I'm feeling better now so may get out another blog soon.
