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@davidaugust This is the kind of chaos I like in my life.

@davidaugust Before I had ankle surgery we drew smiley faces on the bottom of my toes. My doc said they got a nice chuckle. But your story is epic.

@davidaugust Thanks for that. I really needed a good laugh.

@davidaugust Don't waste that Sharpie. Very well done.

@davidaugust I’ve had 4 surgeries on the same knee (starting in college) and wish that I’d thought of that. 😂

@kyozou Hopefully, you won't need any more surgery, but if you do, now you've a whole new tactic, and adventure.

@davidaugust 4th (and hopefully last) surgery was a total replacement. 😏

@kyozou they have rebuilt you, they have the technology. Strong, faster, better. 😉

@davidaugust : This story is rather sublime and rather brilliant. 🤔🤣🤣🤣💥

@davidaugust Damnit. I just spent almost three years having multiple surgeries and never once thought of doing that.

@cautionwip Well, glad things have hopefully healed well. And if we have others in the future, we've got a new adventure to take 😆

@johnb48 no, both me and the author are not.

@davidaugust My doc didn't give me the Sharpie. He wrote 'YES' on one foot, and on the other 'no' with an X 😂

@surrealsai that works too. Might have been more fun, or chaotic, if they'd given it to you.

@davidaugust I want to know about the weird stuff u said now! 🤣

@davidaugust Wish I had thought if that. Had knee surgery on Friday.

@marenf If there's a next time, then next time. Hope you're recovering well.

@davidaugust sitting in IcU waiting to hear about my kiddo who has KDA. And this made me laugh. TY.

@tyercel I'm glad it did. Sending you and your kiddo good healing vibes and wishes for a full and fast recovery.

@davidaugust Adorable story, I love that your mom pitched in. 🥰👍Over the course of a couple of months of physical therapy I kept having to bend over in a hospital gown to check the range of motion on my lower back. To lighten the mood I started putting Post-it notes on my underwear in super tiny print that said… ‘if you can read this you are WAAAAY too close to my butt” 😜

@Pineywoozle actually just laughed out loud, that's delightful.

@davidaugust Thanks! It still makes me giggle a little too. 🥰It was from an awful car wreck and humor is absolutely essential to get through some of life’s BS 🤣🤣🤣 and it’s never what happened to you it’s what you do with what happened to you that matters.

@Pineywoozle good insight. We control (or at least influence) how we react.

@davidaugust
This just made me cry-laugh, at work... Oops. Literal tears of hilarity. Fab story, love it!

@Giselle glad the cry-laugh is a good thing, hope your co-workers aren't too surprised. 😀

@davidaugust Luckily they didn't notice. On the other hand if anyone had noticed I would have read this out and shared the fun. So bit of a shame really.

@Giselle you can still share it with them maybe? It might depend on the co-worker if they’d be open to reading it.

@davidaugust did they operate on the correct knee though?

@davidaugust When I started reading this I thought it was going to end with the wrong leg being amputated, the doc figuring it out too late, and then amputating the right leg as well.

Then, of course, the patient sues the doctor, but the case gets thrown out because...

He
didn't
have
a
leg
to
stand
on.

Sorry.

@davidaugust And they were laughing so hard, they mistakenly cut off the wrong knee.

@tezoatlipoca accidental amputation sounds like no fun. Unless as a band name.

@davidaugust Aw dude, their debut album Phantom Limb was spectacular including the opening single "You Ripped out My Heart But I Can Still Feel It Yearning For You".

@tezoatlipoca such a banger, great song. “you cut me (outta your life)” is probably my favorite ballad of theirs.

@davidaugust Brilliant use of a marker pen! Shows once again the pen is mightier than the blade.

I wanted to make sure that they didn’t cut the wrong knee even if any parts of the messages were washed off. So I went with “FIX THIS KNEE” and “LEAVE ALONE”. Didn’t think to do messages elsewhere.

@davidaugust honestly, I get it; when I was 10, I had hip surgery. The doctor came to mark me up with a sharpie, drew an arrow on my hip, and got up to leave.... which is when I piped up that he’d got the wrong leg! Lots of panicked scribbling later, I had a whole bunch of Xs and a crossed out arrow on that first leg, and a new arrow on the other, and a lot of notes at my insistence.

It does happen!

@Teaceratops wow. Glad it happened with the sharpie and not later. That’s amazing.