Mom, Pig Valves, and Monkeys
Jan. 23rd, 2006 10:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
orikesMom’s okay. The surgery took about four hours and they had to do a little more than they expected, but she came through everything fine. Part of me wonders if that’s what they tell everyone, but feh.
She basically had stenosis of the artery, so they had to replace the valve. I guess the standard choice is to either replace it with a pig valve or to do a mechanical valve. Mom went with the pig valve. I guess there’s fewer drugs you have to be on afterwards. Whatever. Just as long as it works.
Apparently, when they got in there they found out her coronary artery was too close to the side of the valve, so they couldn’t just replace the valve. They ended up replacing the whole ‘root’. I don’t know if that’s a standard term or anything, but they basically had to do a little more than they thought. I guess it wasn’t –that- out of the ordinary, but what do I know.
In lighter news, I wanted to share some gaming comments. Since the whole thing with mom, I was a bit out of sorts to post something like this, but I was just too dumbfounded not to post it.
Okay, recently I had my players in the super hero game fight a pirate, his crew, and his telepathic ninja monkey first mate. Along with their flying pirate ship. The players loved it, especially the flying pirate ship (which they very quickly found a way to commandeer). For various reasons, the monkey ended up being the biggest cause for concern. The monkey was a bad ass.
Now, being the paranoid people they can be, the players got all worked up about the origins of Pirate Captain Danny Blackstorm and Mr. Smudge, the Monkey of Doom. From my perspective, the whole thing was simple. Blackstorm was a Hollywood special effects guru who fell under the influence of a powerful amulet that gave him weather powers and a piratical outlook in addition to his ability to make fun gadgets. Mr. Smudge was the rather intelligent refugee from an animal experimentation facility who happened to decide that being first mate was a pretty nifty gig. Of course, the players didn’t know any of that. It was just background filler.
Woody, though, came up with this hugely convoluted story on what was REALLY going on.
In the Woodyverse, in olden days there was a cursed pirate who was granted immortality, but he had to swap minds with ‘fresh’ bodies to continue that immortality. Through various circumstances he ended up stranded on an island where there were only monkeys, thereby forcing him to take over a monkey. Because there were plenty of monkeys, he could continue indefinitely being a monkey.
Until one day, the special effects guru Daniel Black came to the island checking it out for a potential on-location spot for a new Pirate movie. The monkey-pirate quickly grabbed the opportunity of swapping his mind with Black’s. This meant that the pirate now had a human body that he could use as he wanted (i.e. Being a pirate again) while the very intelligent Daniel Black was relegated to being a monkey. A monkey that somehow became suddenly able to use telekinetic powers…
What was especially funny was the enthusiasm and insistence which he regaled the other players with this hypothesis. He was absolutely convinced that THIS had to be the truth. Where he got it from, I have absolutely no idea.
As it is, I’ve decided to throw a couple more hooks in there for Mr. Smudge since the players seemed to get a kick out of him.
After all.. the monkey will kill you.
She basically had stenosis of the artery, so they had to replace the valve. I guess the standard choice is to either replace it with a pig valve or to do a mechanical valve. Mom went with the pig valve. I guess there’s fewer drugs you have to be on afterwards. Whatever. Just as long as it works.
Apparently, when they got in there they found out her coronary artery was too close to the side of the valve, so they couldn’t just replace the valve. They ended up replacing the whole ‘root’. I don’t know if that’s a standard term or anything, but they basically had to do a little more than they thought. I guess it wasn’t –that- out of the ordinary, but what do I know.
In lighter news, I wanted to share some gaming comments. Since the whole thing with mom, I was a bit out of sorts to post something like this, but I was just too dumbfounded not to post it.
Okay, recently I had my players in the super hero game fight a pirate, his crew, and his telepathic ninja monkey first mate. Along with their flying pirate ship. The players loved it, especially the flying pirate ship (which they very quickly found a way to commandeer). For various reasons, the monkey ended up being the biggest cause for concern. The monkey was a bad ass.
Now, being the paranoid people they can be, the players got all worked up about the origins of Pirate Captain Danny Blackstorm and Mr. Smudge, the Monkey of Doom. From my perspective, the whole thing was simple. Blackstorm was a Hollywood special effects guru who fell under the influence of a powerful amulet that gave him weather powers and a piratical outlook in addition to his ability to make fun gadgets. Mr. Smudge was the rather intelligent refugee from an animal experimentation facility who happened to decide that being first mate was a pretty nifty gig. Of course, the players didn’t know any of that. It was just background filler.
Woody, though, came up with this hugely convoluted story on what was REALLY going on.
In the Woodyverse, in olden days there was a cursed pirate who was granted immortality, but he had to swap minds with ‘fresh’ bodies to continue that immortality. Through various circumstances he ended up stranded on an island where there were only monkeys, thereby forcing him to take over a monkey. Because there were plenty of monkeys, he could continue indefinitely being a monkey.
Until one day, the special effects guru Daniel Black came to the island checking it out for a potential on-location spot for a new Pirate movie. The monkey-pirate quickly grabbed the opportunity of swapping his mind with Black’s. This meant that the pirate now had a human body that he could use as he wanted (i.e. Being a pirate again) while the very intelligent Daniel Black was relegated to being a monkey. A monkey that somehow became suddenly able to use telekinetic powers…
What was especially funny was the enthusiasm and insistence which he regaled the other players with this hypothesis. He was absolutely convinced that THIS had to be the truth. Where he got it from, I have absolutely no idea.
As it is, I’ve decided to throw a couple more hooks in there for Mr. Smudge since the players seemed to get a kick out of him.
After all.. the monkey will kill you.
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Date: 2006-01-24 03:54 am (UTC)And... you have me giggling about monkeys.
And, I'm addicted to Anita Blake books. Le Sigh.
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Date: 2006-01-24 05:24 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-01-24 08:50 pm (UTC)As to the Pirate...DEATH MONKEY 4TW!!!!11!1Lol!l!!11