Category: Humorous Moments

Well, here I am again writing about my journey down the cancer road.  It is like any journey, full of new experiences – some that are good and some that are not so good.  My most recent experience is with what is called a drain.

Evidently the body produces a lot of fluid after surgery.  My doctor inserted some tubing into my skin attaching it with sutures.  At the other end of this tubing is a bulb where the fluid ends up.  From somewhere inside my body a liquid discharge is making its way to the tubing.  Slowly, very slowly the fluid goes down the tubing and at the end enters the bulb. 

I have had this drain attached to me for a whole week now and I want to tell you, this drain is a pain!  Not only is there some actual physical pain at the tube’s insertion point, but there is also some other pain involved with trying to figure out how to keep the bulb end attached to my body.

Where, oh where can my little drain go

Oh where, oh where can it go

With its long tube attached

And its bulb full of fluid

Oh where, oh where can it go

😮

I tried letting it hang, hang down at my side

To drain, and drain, and drain

But then it got in the way

I tried putting the bulb into my pocket

To hide it out of sight

But others wondered what that bulge could be

🙄

Where, oh where can my little drain go

Oh where, oh where can it go

With its long tube attached

Its bulb full of fluid

Oh where, oh where can it go

The drain is a pain!!! 😀

Change, Grow, Evolve

©bcreed

For years I have been disturbed by my wrinkly neck, what I called my waddle.  Therefore, as is the norm for me I decided to write about this issue.  But, before I expressed my personal feelings on the subject the educator in me decided to do some research.  I thought getting a specific definition about my waddle would be a good place to start.  Boy, was I surprised by what I learned!!

I went to the Internet dictionary and found these definitions.

Miriam-Webster dictionary has some things to say about a waddle:

• to walk with short steps swinging the forepart of the body from side to side
• to move clumsily in a manner suggesting a waddle
• an awkward clumsy swaying gait

Examples of waddle in a sentence: He waddled down the hallway. A fat goose waddled across the yard.

Although I feel like my saggy neck often looks like it is moving clumsily and swinging from side to side, none of these definitions seem to fit for the waddle that I am experiencing.

It seems I have had it wrong all these years.  I thought the term was waddle. Come to find out I was researching the wrong spelling.  I found out the correct term is wattle. Back to the research. What does the Internet say about the wattle?

• Wikipedia states: In turkeys, the wattle is a flap of skin hanging under the chin connecting the throat and head. (This seems to be a better, if not depressing, definition of what I am experiencing.)
• pureluxemedical.com says: Turkey neck affects the underlying muscles and elasticity of the skin on the neck, which is why it ends up looking loose, dangling and shows wrinkly folds that look very much like a turkey’s wattle.
• The Seattle Times states: It’s no secret that aging takes a toll on the skin, and one common manifestation is “turkey neck,” which occurs when the skin in the chin and neck area becomes loose and saggy. Turkey neck is caused by the weakening of the neck muscles, along with the skin losing its elasticity — both of which are a normal, if unfortunate, part of the aging process.

OMG — I am related to a turkey!

©bcreed