JHolcomb
11-23-2002, 06:24 PM
So my dad has a hernia--the type men get when part of the intestine pokes out through the belly button. Gross, no? Anyway, he's having surgery to correct it on Dec 26, but until then, it's getting worse and there is a bit of protrusion. Dad is really big on building stuff and figuring out how stuff works, so I guess what happened isn't too surprising. You should know that my father is a well educated, intellegent man...or so I thought...
So here's where it gets so funny I laughed until I cried.
My mom and dad were out shopping the other day when my dad mentioned to my mom that he needed some parrafin wax. My mom asked him why and he said "You know, parrafin wax, you use it for canning." My mom was like "yeah, I know what it's for, but why do you need it?"
Apparently, my father was planning on constructing a cork for his bellybutton to hold in the protrusion! So my mom, knowing that my dad is planning on constructing this medical apparatus, still allows him to buy the wax. Dad goes home and somehow constructs a cork to fit his bellybutton. The problem now is how he's going to get it to stay in the bellybutton---he decides on medical tape. So the cork, unsanitary though it may be, is working fine until a day or so ago when my dad presumably goes to check on the progress of the hernia and my mom hears a scream. For future reference medical tape takes off skin when it's removed ...so the cork is actually working well, but dad decides he wants to try building a new, improved version of the original prototype. He decides against medical tape this time and secures it with an Ace Bandage. He said it worked ok,except that it kept riding up.
Thank God he's getting the operation in less than a month!
So here's where it gets so funny I laughed until I cried.
My mom and dad were out shopping the other day when my dad mentioned to my mom that he needed some parrafin wax. My mom asked him why and he said "You know, parrafin wax, you use it for canning." My mom was like "yeah, I know what it's for, but why do you need it?"
Apparently, my father was planning on constructing a cork for his bellybutton to hold in the protrusion! So my mom, knowing that my dad is planning on constructing this medical apparatus, still allows him to buy the wax. Dad goes home and somehow constructs a cork to fit his bellybutton. The problem now is how he's going to get it to stay in the bellybutton---he decides on medical tape. So the cork, unsanitary though it may be, is working fine until a day or so ago when my dad presumably goes to check on the progress of the hernia and my mom hears a scream. For future reference medical tape takes off skin when it's removed ...so the cork is actually working well, but dad decides he wants to try building a new, improved version of the original prototype. He decides against medical tape this time and secures it with an Ace Bandage. He said it worked ok,except that it kept riding up.
Thank God he's getting the operation in less than a month!