{"id":443,"date":"2006-07-27T12:01:35","date_gmt":"2006-07-27T17:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/wordpress\/?p=443"},"modified":"2006-07-27T12:06:13","modified_gmt":"2006-07-27T17:06:13","slug":"lidocaine-dig-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/2006\/07\/27\/lidocaine-dig-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Lidocaine.  Dig it."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So the mole extraction went well.  Pretty much exactly what I was expecting.  My range of movement is a little limited today, owing to the five sets of stitches I have on my chest and back, but everything is otherwise fine.<\/p>\n<p>And this happy outcome is due in large part to the wonder drug Lidocaine.  From Wikipedia:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lidocaine alters depolarization in <a title=\"Neuron\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neuron\">neurons<\/a>, by blocking the fast sodium (Na<sup>+<\/sup>) channels in the cell membrane. With sufficient blockade, the membrane will not depolarise and so not transmit an action potential, leading to its anesthetic effects.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m here to tell you, that stuff <em>works<\/em>.  I barely even felt the tugging on my skin when the dermatologist was hacking away at me with a pair of scissors.  For those of you who&#8217;ve ever trimmed the excess skin and fat off a piece of chicken with a kitchen shears, you have a pretty good notion of what it&#8217;s like to be on the giving end of this procedure.  And I have a pretty good idea what it&#8217;s like to be on the receiving end.<\/p>\n<p>Leah had a removal some months back, and she made the mistake of looking down just as the nurse was lifting her recently-excised flap of skin into a collection container.  Not a good idea.  I made no such mistake.  Still, I could hear those scissors cutting through me, even though I couldn&#8217;t feel a thing.  It would&#8217;ve been nice to have had headphones or some other aural distraction while the procedure was going on.<\/p>\n<p>I go back in a week from today to get one last mole removed and to get the stitches out of the five that were taken off yesterday.  As you might expect, I&#8217;ll be uploading pictures of the stitched-up wounds to my Flickr account as soon as these bandages come off tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the mole extraction went well. Pretty much exactly what I was expecting. My range of movement is a little limited today, owing to the five sets of stitches I have on my chest and back, but everything is otherwise fine. And this happy outcome is due in large part to the wonder drug Lidocaine. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9oLlO-79","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}