Today we had to euthanize Ranae, our 15-year-old tuxedo cat.
Plato’s Cave
A little over a year ago she was diagnosed with diabetes. We guessed at the time that she’d had it for a while, since, when we put her on “kitty Atkins” (Fancy Feast cat food) and Glipizide (an oral glucose-control medication), she changed from a [...]
Yesterday evening I saw a dead man for the first time.
It was my father.
I. O, Fortuna
I am both fortunate and unfortunate in being able to say that. Fortunate in that, for much of the rest of the world, the sight of death is likely to come both too early and too often, and certainly not [...]
Last Tuesday I had my prostate vaporized. Here’s a photo of an early, not-very-successful version of the procedure:
Early PVP with too much laser power
The surgery is called Green-Light Photo-assisted Vaporization of the Prostate (PVP). It uses a 120-watt laser to vaporize prostate tissue, and cauterize at the same time. I requested a spinal anesthetic, so [...]
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