The paradox is maddening — we won’t know the dominant type (which will more than likely decide the course of treatment) until after surgery, but the question of which is the dominant type helps decide the type of surgery to be done. The surgery originally scheduled for this Friday is no...
When you think about labor and giving birth, the moment when your water breaks might come to mind. For most people, their water breaks after labor has already begun. Sometimes, however, your water might break before labor begins. This is called the premature rupture of membranes (sometimes al...
Surgery after radiation increases risk of infection. Radiation before surgery increases risk of capsular contracture. This is where scar tissue forms around the implant, making it hard and misshapen. I had two medical opinions on this.“It’s a less than 20 per cent chance, if I was a betti...
Johann Christian (the “London Bach”) came next, when Sebastian’s motherboard started to age out, and a few years ago, after a round of quaint malfunctions, Carl Philip Emanuel replaced him. The historic Bach had eighteen kids but clearly I was not going to get through them; when the...