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This haggard mother spent the day after her Vicodin induced delirium at the doctor's office with Zack having his nearly human appendage surgically removed. We lovingly referred to it as "MOLAY, MOLAY, MOLAY"!!! When two baby warts appeared next to the gigantic one on his knee, we thought the thing was growing arms! It was time for action...

We entered the room with little hesitation. Zack was full of questions and answers. He immediately began to tell the doctor how the procedure would be done. She had explained it when we visited her last. She was impressed. After this, he wanted to see the needle and requested an explanation of what was in going to be shot into his knee. She was shocked at his inquisitiveness. She told him that most boys his age are nervous and cry before they see anything in her office to which her retorted, "Not me because I want to be a doctor."

She had him lie down as she inserted the needle under his life size wart. His eyebrows scrunched up a bit, but he didn't make a sound. She slowly pulled the needle out and reinserted it on the other side when Zack sat up and said, "Can I watch now"? She told him to lay down for a little bit longer. He said sadly, "Okay."

I was getting queazy as was Sophia as we sat about a yard away watching the doctor take out the surgical knife to begin removing the wart which in reality was the size of a quarter. With the first cut, it began spurting blood. She quickly grabbed a bunch of gauze to control the splatter. Just then Zack sat up and looked down at his knee. Just as the doctor was going to instruct him to lay back down and not look, he said, "That's sweet"!!! Sophia and I glanced over at him pale faced!

The doctor said, "It looks like you enjoy this stuff." Zack told her he loves to see how things about the body work. She said, "I have never had a boy like you in my office." After which she looked at me and said, "I think you have a doctor on your hands." Zack inserted, "I hope so." She let him sit up for the rest of the procedure. It took her 30 minutes to finish cutting it off and cauterizing it, and boy did it smell!!!

After she was finished, she asked him what he thought he should do so it would heal. He said, "No bath and take good care of it until the new skin grows over the bad part." She said, "Exactly" after which she put a bandaid on it simply so Sophia would stop gagging!