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Jun. 26th, 2014 09:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynGot an appointment with a urologist this afternoon; we'll see what the scans have to say. I need to write up my stone history before I go.
On a related note, during the medical exam the other day the FAA doctor asked me if I had any scars or tattoos. I showed him the only notable ones I had, a line across one knuckle that had bits of street in it and the place where I screwed up with the mandoline in 2012. He said, "Nope, too small," and explained that he was looking for something big enough to identify me in the event of a crash.
I am not currently afraid of crashing, but I'll tell you, that moment was the first time I actively wanted a tattoo. I've discussed the possibility before, mostly back when I worked for the Red Cross- essentially, that if I ever got assigned to a foreign DR operation and was banned from donating blood for a year as a result, I'd want my basic medical information tattooed on my shoulder or back* somewhere and possibly a Red Cross flag on one arm- but I'd never actually really wanted one, let alone seriously contemplated getting one.
We'll see what happens. I'd still rather donate blood than get ink, but you never know.
*If you're somewhere that things get bad enough that you have to be identified by a tattoo, you'd better have it somewhere that can't be blown off.
On a related note, during the medical exam the other day the FAA doctor asked me if I had any scars or tattoos. I showed him the only notable ones I had, a line across one knuckle that had bits of street in it and the place where I screwed up with the mandoline in 2012. He said, "Nope, too small," and explained that he was looking for something big enough to identify me in the event of a crash.
I am not currently afraid of crashing, but I'll tell you, that moment was the first time I actively wanted a tattoo. I've discussed the possibility before, mostly back when I worked for the Red Cross- essentially, that if I ever got assigned to a foreign DR operation and was banned from donating blood for a year as a result, I'd want my basic medical information tattooed on my shoulder or back* somewhere and possibly a Red Cross flag on one arm- but I'd never actually really wanted one, let alone seriously contemplated getting one.
We'll see what happens. I'd still rather donate blood than get ink, but you never know.
*If you're somewhere that things get bad enough that you have to be identified by a tattoo, you'd better have it somewhere that can't be blown off.
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Date: 2014-06-26 05:39 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2014-06-26 11:57 pm (UTC)It had crossed my mind to get my brother(s) to design me a tat in Korean characters. I think I would have it say "Curried Goat." Because it cracks me up how many people think they're getting something cool in Chinese like "Empty wind" (or I don't know, something - that sounds cool to me) and it turns out to say "Chicken Soup." Also, "Curried goat in a paper cup" has been in my 'name' slot on LJ and DW for years. Some people think they're hot shit in a wine glass, I'm curried goat in a paper cup. (And it's also a reference to a Jethro Tull song.)
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Date: 2014-06-27 12:46 pm (UTC)The curried goat thing makes perfect sense, if you ask me. I know what you mean about the munged-up Asiatic language tattoos- http://hanzismatter.blogspot.com chronicles the things, and some of them are kinda hilarious.