Small Issues

Poor Chuck! First he gets stuck taking care of me in my current semi-ambulatory condition. Then he finds out he has to have spinal surgery at the end of the month (he has spinal stenosis). The procedure is scary but necessary, done with microsurgery. Which got me thinking…wouldn’t it be cool if rather than microsurgery, they had microSURGEONS who could, say, go in through you nose (or orifice of your choice 😉 and with their teeny instruments go at the problem. Talk about non-invasive! And when they were done, well, they could either scoot out the way they came in or maybe get sucked out via hypodermic needle from some agreed upon location (“so you’ll meet us at the right bicep at 0100 hours, right?”). This would, I feel, revolutionize surgery. Think about the training of microsurgeons! Their very small schools would take up little or know space (of course, you’d need to cordon off the area around the school, lest the poor little folks get smooshed inadvertently). I remember that awesome ride at Disneyland called Adventure Thru Inner Space (for years this was my favorite ride)…maybe that could be another approach – start out with normal sized surgeons and miniaturize them. Which leads me to that fabulous movie from the mid-60s, Fantastic Voyage. I find myself again disappointed with us 21st century humans. Where are the transporters? Where are the flying cars and jet packs? Where are the microsurgeons? *sigh*