Tag: surgery

  • Surgical Deja Vu

    Call me Robo-Man. I’ve got a matching set of these suckers. Three weeks ago, I went under the knife for my fourth hip replacement surgery in five years. Arthritis was the cause for the first two total hip replacements, faulty equipment was the cause for the subsequent “revision” hip surgeries. Seems that the parts they…

  • The Ante Is Upped (Pt. 2)

        At 3:41 last night, the bedroom phone rang.          “Hello,” I mumbled into the phone half asleep.          “Well, you coming through for me, or what, jerkface?” a male voice asked sharply.          “Who is this?”         “Don’t play dumb, you know damn well who this is.…