Reply To: So, what have YOU been up to lately? (A Cruise-free zone, please)
Apologies to anyone who’s seen a similar comment on my facebook, but not everybody is there.
My son had a follow-up appointment with the surgeon yesterday. The cyst wasn’t terribly close to the facial nerve, and there’s no apparent nerve damage. The incision is healing nicely, and there’s every reason to hope that the scar will fade to near-invisibility over time. Post-surgical pain was negligible. The interesting thing for me is that the cyst was described by the surgeon as resembling a duplicate outer ear canal, and the pathology report bore that out. OK, so he had an extra thumb, an extra ear. Is there anything else he has in duplicate, something that’s less obvious, something internal? Is there another (third) shoe that’s going to drop? And that’s when the question dawned on me:
What if he has an extra heart?
I guess in that case we’ll just need to get him a sonic screwdriver. And there, @mrgoldenbrown, would be the time travel.