The beautiful 5-cm incision in all its glory. All the doctors and nurses admired it when I showed it off. It will make a very elegant scar.

And this is the prettiest that it looked. Over the next week, it became nasty and inflamed as my skin cells protested the metal staples. Fortunately, the staples were removed yesterday when I visited Dr. Ong and Dr. Kelley in the "Surgical Ambulatory" Clinic.