[Cancer, Personal]
[personalcancer] In other news…
I got identity scammed twice in the last twenty-four hours.
The first was a suspicious debit card transaction on my checking account which showed up yesterday. A very small, even numbered amount, from a business I patronized regularly, after I had not been in for about two weeks. I called them and they had no idea what it was about. I called my credit union, where we decided the whole was just odd enough to be worth cancelling my debit card under the theory that someone was a running a test transaction. The resulted in a visit to credit union branch yesterday evening, after which Lisa Costello and I had a rather nice dinner at Portofino, as it was just down the block from the branch.
The second was this morning, when I sleepily clicked on a link in a Twitter DM and was asked for my Twitter password. As some Web sites somewhat routinely require me to re-log in, I didn’t think about this until the password failed, and I looked at the URL. It was ‘iftwitter’ etc., but otherwise used Twitter’s design scheme, etc. Luckily for me, I was inputting the wrong password. Unluckily for me, that password is valid at certain other places. I’ve been on the Internet since the early 1990s. I know better. Sigh.
Meanwhile, yesterday I got the staples taken out of my belly. They were starting to hurt more than the incision, and their puncture wounds were becoming inflamed. Having thirty-two staples removed is like being jabbed in the belly with a hypodermic needle thirty-two times, with bonus points for the ones my skin had started to overgrow. Still, I feel a lot better.
Before and after photos under cut, for them what’s curious:
Before: Adagio for surgery wound with staples
After: Sonata for surgical glue and Steri-Strips
The cache of staples, brought home as a trophy
Photos © 2013, Joseph E. Lake, Jr.
This work by Joseph E. Lake, Jr. is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
Related Posts
Posted: 8:53 am Fri February 01 2013 |
Where am I?
You are reading the blog of Jay Lake, speculative fiction writer and author of hundreds of short stories, many novels, and winner of the John W. Campbell Award.
Learn more here.
Comments
« [cancer] What do you say to someone like me? | [links] Link salad talks about pop music »
Bummer about the phishing, but I’m still wincing from the image of 32 jabs with a hypodermic needle! I recommend linking the two in your mind. After a punishment like that, you’ll always remember to check the url before putting in a password.
The scammers suck… I wonder if you can make a necklace out of the staples?
I was also thinking about the possibility of staple-based jewelry. But 32 staples wouldn’t be enough for a necklace. Perhaps a chain-mail type pendant, or a ring.
Our housemate Tabbi makes bone jewelry, up to and including a bone sword from a camel leg bone. When I had my December surgery to replace the upper right humerous with steel and plastic, I brought up the idea of salvaging the broken fragments of bone for Tabbi’s use. Tabbi: “Cool!” Surgeon: “Umm, I don’t think so.”
I actually have about 50 staples, because of saving staples from a prior surgery.
Jay, this is NOTwhat people mean by “staple diet”…
*sigh*
My last surgery was glued. Worked better than the staples.
I’ve got a screw that came out of my ankle tucked away somewhere……
That sucks about the scammers…sad you have to worry about stuff like that right now.
Regarding the staples, thank you for posting as it made me relive the feeling I had after my C-section. Not sure if you have it after your sugery or surgeries in the past but I always get these phantom pains where my incision is which make me feel all weird. Wondering if you can sell the staples and make some money for scrap metal? Ha Ha! Well thinking of you!