Tuesday, February 17, 2015

No Rest For The Wicked

Not one for the squeamish
Only a guy with balls of steel will dare say he will be back to work after a radical prostatectomy. Then again, some people's workload is different from what the rest of us mere mortals have to put up with in the office, factory or construction site.

The surgical procedure in question involves wholesale removal of the prostate gland, the surrounding tissue and seminal vesicles. Depending on circumstances, the lymph nodes around the prostate gland may also be removed. There's quite a lot of missing plumbing parts after closing the hood. The robot-assisted prostatectomy operation is performed with laparoscopic instruments, puncturing through five to six keyhole-sized incisions in the abdomen. Needless to say, keyholes come in various diameters.

Ng Eng Hen is probably a better doctor than a defence minister - Singapore did pledge to
contribute about US$50 million to the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter development effort - and he was more cautious with medical advice than the wantonness with taxpayer monies:
“I used to give patients a month to six weeks of MC to recuperate. I would tell them that it may be keyhole on the outside, but full surgery has been done inside. Even after minimally invasive surgery, the body needs time to heal, regain its energy and usual rhythm.”

But budget day is round the corner, and the surpluses will need to be sliced up like your order from Pizza Hut. And the pesky opposition still needs to be fixed. As they say, there's no rest for the wicked.

19 comments:

  1. Just wonder whether they are trying to exagerate that cancer problem. This may be 1 way to secure symphathy votes just like how Chen Shui Bian cheated Taiwanese voters with that damn bullet.

    You see everyone has cancer cells, this I was told, as evidenced from those cancer markers as reported in one's comprehensive medical checkup report. Only the cunning people will make use of such data for one's selfish interests.

    As they say, when one repeats the lie twice, people will start to raise suspicion. Legally he may not be lying, but morally it is despicable if one resorts to such dirty tricks.

    I better go monitor my cancer cells less I sucumbed to cancer also. But I ever have it twice, I will definitely wouldn't want to remain as PM for all the money or power in this world.

    Food for thought.

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  2. The surgical procedure in question involves wholesale removal of the prostate gland, the surrounding tissue and seminal vesicles.
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    Is it now double confirm only blanks will be fired?

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    1. The prostate secretes fluid that nourishes and protects sperm. During ejaculation, the prostate squeezes this fluid into the urethra, and it’s expelled with sperm as semen. So, it's double confirmed, only blanks can now be fired.

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    2. Can get hard on or not?

      ED?

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    3. Sexual Function After Surgery for Prostate or Bladder Cancer
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      Results: Options for male sexual dysfunction, primarily erectile dysfunction resulting from radical prostatectomy or surgery for bladder cancer, range from patient education to penile prosthesis implantation.

      http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/542996

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    4. Sexual dysfunction after prostate surgery is more common than previously reported, says Hutchinson Center study

      http://www.fredhutch.org/en/news/releases/2000/01/JAMAprostatectomy.html

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    5. Does it make him what his daddy calls a "dud"?

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    6. Got $8 penile prosthesis or not ah?

      https://www.urologicalcare.com/img/003-IPP.jpg

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    7. Blanks or not, its the other end that will give ultimate pleasure....

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    8. Blanks means no more little mini-Lee can be manufactured.

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    9. Ever heard of AI?
      And I don't mean artificial intelligence.

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    10. Given the lack of visual stimulation.
      It probably was AI all along.

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  3. No rest for the wicked? As you said his 'work' is not quite the same as the rest of us, excluding trying to fix the opposition. There is political mileage to be won in this drama .Why not milk it for all its worth?

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  4. Where are the dog hounders who barked a bi-polar lawyer like M Ravi is unfit to practice law due to his illness? Will they now call for this PM (twice cancer now) unfit to run the nation?

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  5. Going back to work? You mean going back to his office. A person can go back to his office and does no work.
    I wonder how much he spent out of pocket for this expensive surgery. Surely cannot be more than the $8 the religious man who was the Minister for Health spent.

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  6. "Ng Eng Hen is probably a better doctor than a defence minister - Singapore did pledge to
    contribute about US$50 million to the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter development effort - "

    I didn't know they crowdfunded Fighter Jets,

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  7. Of course he can be back in office in 1 week, as long as someone is constantly holding a spittoon ready to catch his urine dripping anytime. But this carefully cultivated superman image (I take 1 week to recover, not like the usual 6 weeks, haha!) reminds one of the 1970s Xinhua releases about Mao's little "sickness" just before he finally kicked the bucket. Throughout history of authoritarianism, propaganda machines have never known the meaning of exaggerating.

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  8. You guys are wicked, hahaha!

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