{"id":691,"date":"2004-09-02T20:29:38","date_gmt":"2004-09-02T20:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/vng\/one-skin-two-skin-three-skin\/"},"modified":"2004-09-02T20:29:38","modified_gmt":"2004-09-02T20:29:38","slug":"one-skin-two-skin-three-skin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/one-skin-two-skin-three-skin\/","title":{"rendered":"One skin, two skin, three skin&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite my recent decision to be less candid when dealing with other people&#8217;s names in this blog, when it comes to my own life, I&#8217;m planning to be more candid than ever.<\/p>\n<p>So, after a nine month waiting time, due to the GP relying on Royal Mail to deliver the referrel to the local hospital, I finally got an appointment. OK, the woman who phoned Michele yesterday got the date wrong. OK, they phoned me again to reschedule it earlier than before&#8230;but at least I got an appointment.<br \/>\nIf you&#8217;re squeamish then please look away now.<br \/>\nI have been diagnosed with a condition called &#8220;lichen sclerosis&#8221; (do a google) which involves my fiveskin becoming too tight to be useful. In Janurary the helpful people at the Guy&#8217;s Hopital clap clinic diagnosed this and told me that the only course of action was circumcision. Fine, I thought, and went to see my GP. He immediately recognised the problem and sent a referral to Lewisham Hospital. They never got it. Did I tell you about Royal Mail ?<br \/>\nTo cut a long story short, I got an appointment today. He took one look at my nob and told me that I have Lichen Sclerosis and need my fiveskin removed&#8230;<i>I FUCKING KNOW THAT!<\/i>. I&#8217;ve known that for 9 months! Oh well, at least the surgery divison have the &#8220;reservation&#8221; now. I also need a week off work afterwards (well, every English non-Jewish bloke reading this will understand that). BTW &#8211; please can you spend a second or two admiring  me for being ok about showing my nob to at least three professional people&#8230;<br \/>\nAs next week is when I start my new working regime, I&#8217;m a tad concerned. My replacement, &#8220;Sue&#8221;, is going to be great but will need a while to get her head around our way of doing things. She will cope tho.<br \/>\nToday was one of the most hectic days ever. I had a million tedious &#8220;little&#8221; jobs to do, combined with doing some serious development work (getting IMSP address books working with Squirrelmail and various other annoying stuff &#8211; you don&#8217;t care!).<\/p>\n<p>Humph has been more affectionate tonight than he has for weeks. He&#8217;s green, fluffy and we love him.<\/p>\n<p>Goodnight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite my recent decision to be less candid when dealing with other people&#8217;s names in this blog, when it comes to my own life, I&#8217;m planning to be more candid than ever. So, after a nine month waiting time, due to the GP relying on Royal Mail to deliver the referrel to the local hospital, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}