Have you had work done
In my media feed there was a documentary dealing with plastics. Plastics as in fixing your body. Now I have not had a great deal of work done on me so put that thought aside however there have been a couple of times when somebody in a hospital has repaired damage. For me the first real motion by a doctor to fix a problem I did not know I had with when they decided to put my nose back in place. I had had an unfortunate contact between my face and the road. Nothing to see here but you could hear it because our nose is an integral part of our voice. There were tapes where I had dictated text and I had developed very bass tone. The surgery took care of that without leaving any real scars either physical or mental. Later I managed to slice open one of my fingers and the doctors simply tape the skin back into place and let nature do its thing. You can hardly see the scar. My final big moment was when a surgeon decided to replace a cornea. Essentially putting a new surface on my eyeball. Not much fun but at least it did not hurt and the replacement issue was the donation which has since worn out. If we’re lucky we outlive some of the work that is done. Now I doubt then I will have any other moments of note although we never really know. But at least if one of my children asks I can say that I am not completely original. That has to be worth something when you tell tales around the campfire. My grandfather went through most of his life with a fake eyeball. Something to do with working in the woods back in the days when that was a dangerous thing to do. I would love to know more about the story but he has been gone for a very long time and from what I remember it was not something that he talked about much around the supper table. Just another part of living.
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