Surgery Pictures

Before my eardrum replacement surgery, the doctor asked me if it would be okay if students observed.

“Of course,” I replied.

“What about pictures?”

“Totally!” I said, excited. “But only if I can get copies!”

So this is why, a few hours later, the doctor was handing my wife totally gross medical pictures of my ear. She’s all, “ew, what are these? He told you to take them? Why would any sane person want them?”

(The funny part is how our mothers reacted. Merrystar’s mom was also confused and grossed out; mine said “Cool!” I guess some things really are learned behavior.)

Anyhow, pictures. Gross, icky, surgical pictures. Of my ear.

I has ‘em. But I have a distribution problem.

See, I don’t want to subject my wife to looking at them again, and she’s one of the primary readers of this weblog. On a normal weblog, I’d hide them ‘below the fold,’ in the extended entry field so that it wouldn’t show on the main page.

Only, uh, I customized this back in the dark ages and used that field for something else. Oops.

So I thought, and thought, and thought, and then remembered that Flickr lets you have guest passes to private photo collections. That would work, right?

Yep. That would work.

So, if you’re feeling brave enough, I invite you to look inside my ear at the before and after pictures.

(But don’t say I didn’t warn you. Merrystar’s right: they are gross.)