My, my, my, my seroma! (and status of "My Life as a Movie- Feb. 2011)

So I'm probably dating myself (how can I not?  I 'm old!), but I'm considering singing this song,  to the tune of "My Sharona", to the Seroma on my abdomen.   The words go thru my mind whenever I say the word seroma but I haven't resorted to singing out loud yet.  Still, if singing works for nurturing plants, then maybe it will help the whole healing process so this thing finally goes away.  Or maybe an alien life form will spring forth from me and become the subject of a blockbuster movie... wait, I think that has already been done and I'm dating myself again...  Still, if it isn't going to go away then I probably ought to just accept and make peace with it and what better way than singing a meaningful song to it?

The next part is some medical stuff, so skip it if you get squeamish.. although I won't share all the gory details.   I certainly get squeamish which explains a little why I am not a nurse!  In case  you don't know what a seroma is, it is a benign pocket of fluid that forms sometimes when healing from surgery--not dangerous or really a problem unless it becomes infected which mine hasn't done luckily.   Mine started right after the surgery which is what caused all the "leaking" during the first month.  It would probably still be leaking if the incision hadn't closed up although it did go down for a few months and then started coming back more noticeably in January.  I have it drained every time I go to the doctor, and I'll spare you the specifics about how much liquid comes out of there... but one time I was weighed both before and after draining (just cuz I was curious) and there was a 1/2 pound difference.

My abdomen is flatter for about a day and then fills right back up... Kind of a pain.  Weird though, because it is worse in the morning and then not so bad later in the day.  In the morning it sticks out like the pointed end of a football--not really the look I am going for. The doctor says that the longest they have ever seen anyone have one is 6 months, and I am quickly approaching that.  Fits in with the whole competitive thing of having all of the complications that they only see at the clinic about once a year--although none have been serious and I am really grateful for that.  I'm ready to give up on the competitive thing already though!

On to another topic, YouTube blocked my latest video "My Life as a Movie (February 2011)".  Haven't gotten any notifications about why, but I suspect that its because I borrowed some images from on-line sources.  Just for the record, I am a photographer and wouldn't like it if anyone stole my images either... but how else would I get hot pictures of Colin Firth or a few pix of Spamalot  (since you can't take pix during the show) and this is a video-blog and I did go see Spamalot in February?  I didn't see Colin Firth, unfortunately, but February IS the favorite month of single people everywhere and so I had to include a Valentine's Day segment!   I'm trying to find some public domain images to use instead but haven't found any comparable ones to use...  and it is questionable on those websites about whether the images are really public domain anyway because even when you pay for them there are disclaimers that the image may be subject to copyright and that they are "believed" to be in the public domain.  Crazy system!

Anyway, the video was FUN to do and was a great opportunity to do some crazy stuff--like taping myself dancing (and I am NOT a good dancer) and developing a segment of my pink suede shoes dancing by themselves. Turned out cool, so it's disappointing that hardly anyone will see it other than me.  I do have some DVD's of it though (for personal use which I hope won't cause the copyright police to come after me) and if you are interested in seeing it then let me know...  definitely doesn't show how I typically act (especially at work) and I suspect that I look a little like the "queen of the dorks".  Luckily, I know now at my age that it just doesn't matter if you are a dork...wish I knew that a few decades ago.

Don't be nervous about asking to see it, or admitting that you blog-stalk me.. I blog-stalk a lot of people! Besides, I'll know that you read this anyway  if you are looking at my abdomen in the morning--and yes the poky football  is visible and so I have to be careful about what I wear...