re: #171 lostlakehiker

I’ve been on the other end of that operation as a surgical technician. Holding the leg while the doctor worked the saw. There wasn’t any option, really; we either cut the gangrene off at the pass or it ran the table.

Building a stump is an art and a science. They guys doing the work were focused and professional. All’s well that ends well; all the best.

Now you can go into politics. There’s endless room for self-deprecating jokes:

here I am out on the stump

I can’t kick about how the doctors treated me; I wouldn’t have a leg to stand on

that program’s got me hopping mad

Yes, it’s still not funny. But dark humor is our best answer to heavy stuff.

I’m ready…there is no reasonable option so I have to be comfortable with this…the other is nothing but pain and misery, it’s been over two years and I have total faith in my docs…stump building maniacs, those guys