You know, I’m just vain enough to wonder about what effects my Friday surgery will have on my appearance. My doctor tells me that I will likely have a permanent bald spot on the right side of my head and a permanent depression on the right side of my neck after the removal of the lymph node as well as a fairly prominent scar.

It seems to me that, as long as I am unconscious anyway, and since there will be lots of knives flying, and since I won’t be able to do anything about the results I just mentioned, why not take the opportunity to fix the things that can be fixed, right? Like what? Hey what guy wouldn’t want to wake up after surgery and look in the mirror and see George Clooney looking back at him?

But I digress. What I really thought would be fun would be to have a before and after shot. Kind of like a room make-over, but, um, without knowing if the room was actually going to improve or not. I’ll post a before picture now and then I’ll post another one a few weeks after surgery. I’ll leave it up to my readers as to whether things got better or worse.

So, just for the record, here is the what I look like today....

Now we’ll just compare that with what I look like in two weeks and see if things have improved.

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