This post has nothing whatsoever to do with autism – its a purely indulgent sidetrack 🙂
Tomorrow marks a momentous day in my life. I am getting what is known as ‘the snip’.
Nervous? Oh yes. You bet I am. My delightful work colleagues and friends who have known about this since before Xmas have been texting me jokes about vasectomies, emailing my pictures that I shan’t describe, dropping hilarious jokes in my Facebook inbox, Direct Messaging me equally hilarious comments on Twitter. Oh, its been fun I can tell you.
As a way of making me feel slightly less nervous about the whole thing, I’ve decided I’m going to Live Tweet the whole operation. This means you – yes you – can keep up with an um, blow by blow account of every gory detail live and as it happens. From my pain-wracked fingers to your eyes as it were.
So, how do you get onboard this train?
You can join Twitter and Follow me. Refresh my home page every so often.
Or a better way is to join up, follow me as above and then go here which is a Twitter Search for the phrase #kevsnip which I will include in all my posts from the operation. You can also use this phrase if you want to Tweet as well.
Kick off is around 3pm GMT. See you there!
Left Brain Right Brain 
Hi Kev –
I’ve heard a couple of things:
1) Did you schedule it around a time when there will be lots of sports (or something you like) on TV? Folks here in the US have been clustering around a popular basketball tournament, though I’d go NFL playoffs for sure. But you see my point. You’re gonna be sitting around and possibly drugged for a while. I guess your scheduled already, but maybe someone else can take this advice and use it in the future.
2) A ziploc bag full of frozen peas is supposedly useful in so far as having the capacity to cool areas with a very fine level of granularity.
3) When they say, OK, now this is gonna sting a little more; they really mean it.
Way to go re: no autism!
Good luck.
– pD
Well… that’s er… different.
I’m going to be watching closely, not too closely but, you know, a twisted kind of interest.
Aah. Cutting edge stuff then. Hope you have the balls to go through with the report. No snipping out any details.
Sorry. I’ll stop now. Being serious my husband had it done and it was painful after but not agony.
You realize, Kev, that you’re not the first person to liveblog his own vasectomy:
http://scienceblogs.com/terrasig/2008/02/liveblogging_the_vasectomy_chr.php
“As a way of making me feel slightly less nervous about the whole thing,”
oookkkk…. sure, whatever….
that one’s not computing at all.
You know, there is a vas deferens between men an women….
groan…
I have heard that it is no big thing.
Well, at least you don’t have to the surgery I had done. It is a lot less of a procedure.
I am sure you will be fine, Kev!
Don’t worry, be happy!
J
I do have to ask though, when this report is finished, will it be a testing testimony of the testes? 😛
Hey Kev, I saw you tweet about this and wanted to wish you good luck and godspeed.
While Orac notes that I liveblogged my vasectomy, it was indirect in that I blogged to one medium (a discussion forum) and then posted the whole account afterward since my Treo didn’t render our MovableType blog platform. I think tweeting is even more immediate and, if I had my iPhone then, I would have twittered as well.
I’ll be posting tomorrow that my account was among 50 posts selected for the OpenLab2008 science blogging anthology and will be sure to direct readers to your Twitter feed.
Make sure you have a good supply of fine British ales to while away your recovery time. I found that helped.
My husband had to have a hernia repair, so we told the docs “while you’re down there”. He was a bit sore after but not terribly (the hernia op was the most of the soreness). But the results… were *wonderful*.
It’s *SO* nice not to have to worry. So, yeah, I wish you the best and I know you’ll enjoy having it over with.
Whoa, bizarre coincidence: I just had my vasectomy yesterday, which is why I’m laying around catching up on blogs today.
The experience was (and at the moment still is) thoroughly unpleasant, though I’m sure looking forward to never having to worry about birth control again.
I’m also looking forward to never again having occasion to have sharp metal objects come into contact with my testicles.
The most interesting part was the cauterization of the ends of the snipped vas deferens: lying on my back and watching wisps of smoke rising up toward the ceiling, and realizing, “Wow, that smoke is coming from my groin.” Hooray for effective local anasthetic!
Hmmm will have to send to my husband. Perhaps he’ll be made less nervous. He freaked when I was supposed to have the feminine version and we decided that having me not particularly functional for a few days wasn’t the best idea, so he volunteered but hasn’t got it done.
Good luck!
Thanks everyone for advice/jokes general commentary 🙂
Good luck, Kev. My husband had it done several years ago (I won’t go into the TMI that lead to that decision). Soreness the first day or so, otherwise uneventful recovery. I hope yours is as uneventful! Wish I could tweet it but work won’t allow. Hugs!
Can the blood pressure take it captain? 😉
I see it’s a done deal, Mr. Lefty and Mr. Righty squared away. Congratulations, Kev.
Maybe I should have twittered my sigmoidoscopy. Nah.
Thanks to all again, I am less of a man but more of a Tweeter this day 😉
did it go well????
when do you actually get to find out? 😉
Nice one Kev. I followed it when I could but I was busy cooking up some prawns for tea during your latter stages.
I still have use for my testes but at some point I may be required to do the same thing. It’s a good thing that you and Abel Pharmboy have done to demystify the whole process.
I think Rutty has just posted the most disturbing thing I’ve ever read.
lol@Toxie – you not considering saving the planet from O’Grady children?
Hoping that everything went well and recovery is bearable, though I see from that last post your humour is intact!
This is one of the few posts that did not have Harold Doherty showing up with some form of caustic comment.
I am not suggesting that you schedule additional small surgeries throughtout the year, but having a few chuckles was a welcome relief.
Another Voice wrote:
“This is one of the few posts that did not have Harold Doherty showing up with some form of caustic comment.”
Hunh! And I didn’t even miss him! 😉
I was just thinking how did I end up here? @Twitter_Tips posted about you. Seems your getting everywhere with this post and a great viral for your worthy site too.
Tina