Sphex

Smack-Fu Master, in training

With "worm" and "groin" in the intro, I expected many more juvenile puns. You're a better person than I, Beth.

Falos

Ars Tribunus Militum

I'm curious how they found out that he had a previous encounter with a worm?
Was it in his records or did he come out of anesthesia and was like, "Another one!?"

And I would like to know the Raw Snake meat story now.

I'm curious how they found out that he had a previous encounter with a worm?
Was it in his records or did he come out of anesthesia and was like, "Another one!?"

And I would like to know the Raw Snake meat story now.

Depends on whether or not the first surgery was performed in the same health network or not. If it was, it would be in the first surgeon's records of the surgery. If not, then yeah, it probably was one of those cases where the doctor who did the surgery came around and had the usual post-surgical conversation with the patient.

As for the snake meat thing... hard to know. On a dare, or survival training? If you're hungry enough even a water moccasin starts looking like a meal... if you can get around the bitey-bitey part.

I imagine surgeons have a better gag reflex than I do but I have to imagine pulling out an unidentified string thing during the surgery and setting it on the table then noticing that it's still moving would certainly cause me to gag and maybe even puke...

I swear, you go for one walk in the

groin slug planet not wearin a

...

O_O

So, it seems the phrase "surgical find" means "time when the topic at hand was found during a surgery."

Wish my word of the day calendar had explained that one before I deduced the meaning after being traumatised by the link.

What's white and 10 inches long and found in the groin area of a human male?

Parasitic worms apparently!

Beth's article did not disappoint

'Raw snake meat during military service' sounds like some jungle survival exercise, taken a bit too seriously. Live off the land! Be a man! Kill and eat, even with no fire. [ninja'd I see]
(Although that's just one possibility for the snake story. And snake isn't listed as a typical host for the wormy critter.)

He omitted that he also ate the cat that was inside the snake.

I'm curious how they found out that he had a previous encounter with a worm?
Was it in his records or did he come out of anesthesia and was like, "Another one!?"

And I would like to know the Raw Snake meat story now.

That makes me think of this
Spaceballs - Oh no, not again

This story reminds me of a tapeworm joke. Its kind of long (groan) but if you'll indulge me....

Much like the gentleman in the story, a fellow has a tapeworm. But this particular tapeworm is rather nasty and has refused to budge despite the efforts of the health care professionals that have been consulted. The guy, now quite desperate, gets one last referral to a specialist.

On the day of the appointment at the specialist, the fellow is ushered in to an examination room and discovers a meal (and a cookie) laid out on the table. The doctor comes in, performs a quick examination and tells the fellow to insert the meal up his bottom, wait exactly 5 minutes and then repeat the process with the cookie.

Well, as I explained the fellow is really desperate - since this is the best treatment his insurance plan can offer - and he complies.

After the procedure, the doctor explains that he should return to the office daily for a week. So the fellow does so and for the first six days the process is repeated. First the meal, then exactly five minutes later, the cookie.

On the seventh day, he finds a meal but no cookie. Undaunted he shoves the meal up his rear end. Exactly 5 minutes later, an indignant tapeworm sticks his head out of the guys butt and complains 'Wheres my cookie?' and WHAM the doctor hits it over the head with a mallet and kills it.

(Nothing like a good ol tapeworm story to get me to crawl out of lurking mode)

Carry on now.

I'm curious how they found out that he had a previous encounter with a worm?
Was it in his records or did he come out of anesthesia and was like, "Another one!?"

And I would like to know the Raw Snake meat story now.

Given the time frame my guess is it happened in Vietnam. My dad served there, even helped take Hamburger Hill a few times, and had an aversion to rice. I eventually got him to tell me why: his unit was short on rations and they were so hungry they tried eating some raw rice. Probably similar story with this guy, only they ate some snake(s).

'Raw snake meat during military service' sounds like some jungle survival exercise, taken a bit too seriously. Live off the land! Be a man! Kill and eat, even with no fire. [ninja'd I see]
(Although that's just one possibility for the snake story. And snake isn't listed as a typical host for the wormy critter.)

He said it was approximately 50 years ago, which would put it approximately at the time of the Vietnam war. If he was a soldier there, it may have been a case of eating something to survive and the only thing he could easily get was snake. He may also have not been in a position to safely cook it before eating it so had to eat it raw. So this might NOT have been an exercise and actual survival during a time of war.
Of course, we don't know anything more than that. The typical host is reptile, amphibian or fish that consume the mollusks that have the previous stage and last I checked, snakes are reptiles

dtich

Ars Scholae Palatinae

Thank's for the refresher on hernias Beth. Weird Al had taught me about them back in the day:
♫♪♬
You may not be familiar with the common types
Of hernias that you could get
So just settle down, let me clue you in
There's incomplete (incomplete)
Epigastric (epigastric)
Bladder (bladder)
Strangulated (strangulated)
Lumbar hernia (lumbar hernia)
Richter's hernia (richter's hernia)
Obstructed (obstructed)
Inguinal and direct ♫♪♬