Sean Bossinger’s Doings

But I survived the scalpel. Yesterday, I had what I'd been telling people around the office was a “medical procedure.”

I had done to me what is known within the medical community as an “elective sterilization.” A vasectomy. I did this after much discussion with the wife about having more children, and after deciding that we have been lucky to have had a perfect family. Additionally, there are effects that are being experienced with our current method of preventing enlargement of the family, and we want to rid ourselves of these effects.

Surprising to me, although it shouldn't have been, was that the most painful part of the whole procedure were the shots to numb the areas of the incisions. I was able to joke with the nurse and the doctor the whole time I was there, except for when the doc was having problems with one particular portion of the operation, but I won't bore you with the details.
So, after we rid myself of the residual sperm, and have it proven by the doctor that all is “fixed,” we'll chalk this one up as a success and celebrate.

All-in-all, I have to say that I find the practice of medicine somewhat exciting. If I weren't so far along in my life, I may have decided to go back to medical school. But then things like this may have lost it's mystique.

I'll recover today and tomorrow, and return to work on Thursday - but I'll be going to class Wednesday night. That should be fun.