Good news! According to a comment on Pharyngula, P.Z. has a new stent and is going home tomorrow.
Says the PeeZee, “I’m no longer sick,
Thanks to a spiffy new medical trick:
My aorta’s not bent
For I haz a new stent—
Now I’ll go back to being a dick!”
Excellent news!
Praise the Lord science-based medicine and all the good doctors and nurses!
Oops — “the Lord” was supposed to be striked out. Damn these hidden codes!
Great! The cute animals obviously worked! 😉
Thank goodness! Of humans and teh kittehs…:)
Good news indeed, thanks for spreading them.
You know what? I’m happy 😉
WOOHOOOOOOO!!
Thanks for the quick notice, Prof. Coyne! Go PZ!!
Excellent.
Steve Austin PZ Myers will be that man; better than he was before. Better, stronger, faster.
Terrific … Of late, It just dont feel right If I dont get my daily dose of WEIT, Pharyngula :-). What have you guys created?
Ceiling Cat was looking out for him. PZ will appreciate the limerick.
Nice limerick for a nice person. Some might think of P.Z. as a “dick.” I say he’s rigorously honest.
Rigidly honest? Maybe he even makes a stiff stand? Takes a stiff position?
I think this “stent” story is just a cover for what really went on in that operating room.
In what seems like a Cthulian moment of experimentation, scientists have fashioned a biotech “nose” by genetically engineering frog cells to behave like insect nose cells. And then they turned the hybrid cells into a control device for a robot.
Sorry for being the doubting Thomas.
But I’ll hold my cheering until he is back.
I know, blessed are those who believe without having seen. But still.
WTF is a stent?
What happened to “Google is your friend”? 😉
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/002303.htm
It’s a device inserted inside an artery to keep it clear of obstruction (like plaque). It’s used in some types of heart surgery as an alternative to arterial replacement (“bypass”).
Its a little dodad that keeps the ink tubes inflated.
Thanks you doctors!
Thanks to all. I did not Google it, but I did look it up in Merriam-Webster (no luck) and Reverso (no luck). I therefore submit that the word does not exist and that the wikipedia article is a scam.
Now it appears on M-W! I therefore submit that the word is an American concoction and as such as good as nonexistent.
It’s technology, der. It’s new. If you ever need one, you might appreciate the “concoction.”
The device, yes. The word, no. It has no etymology. It’s made up. No history, no ancestry, no honour, no tradition. They might as well have called it “thingy” or “schmaltzwaltzer”. Damn doctors!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stent
learn to google, sheesh.
Great news may he get well soon!
Squidilicious news!
Oh, PZ didn’t leave us hanging but raised to the occasion – Stephen Fry on the joys of swearing:
“Swearing is a really important part of one’s life. It would be impossible to imagine going through life without swearing, without enjoying swearing. …
There used to be mad, silly, prissy people who used to say swearing was a sign of poor vocabulary. It’s such utter nonsense. … The sort of dweeb person who thinks that swearing in any way is a sign of lack of education or a sign of lack of verbal interest, is just … fucking lunatic.
I haven’t meet anybody who is truly shocked at swearing … really. They are only shocked on behalf of other people. Well, you know, that’s … preposterous! …
Or, they are saying it’s not necessary. As if that should stop one doing it! It’s not necessary to have colored socks.”
PZ still have a heart.
It’s good to hear he’s doing OK. A friend of mine got a stent at 28 – poor thing – and he’s not even a bacon fan. However, whether or not that fixes PZ’s problems remains to be seen – and of course there’s still the risk of infection.
Yes and I could get the next potato chip stuck in my throat and DIE.
Human beings are the only mammals facing that risk.
Seems it’s a price we pay for ability to talk.
… and eating potato chips…
Most patients do pretty well with stents, but the conditions that caused the blockage in the first place have to be managed, sometimes aggressively.
IOW, goodbye bacon and hello statins. :^(
I have similar crappy cardio genes, so for now I’m keeping up my 3-miles/day walking and eating lots of veggies, and checking my BP and cholesterol. But eventually I’ll probably have to start the pills, too.
Fantastic news! Dr Myers, I hope your post op recovery is a speady and comfortable one.
I for one am glad people do not stent in their search for knowledge, knowledge that can subsequently used to create new tools to better lives.
🙂
I dig the poetry!