From: layrton@panix.com   
      
   On 7/7/2018 6:07 PM, sscbiotech@gmail.com wrote:   
   > On Friday, July 14, 2000 at 2:00:00 AM UTC-5, Meek606 wrote:   
   >> I searched snopes and dejanews with no results, so I hope this hasn't been   
   >> discussed before, but it has got to be a UL! My friend from England told me   
   >> this story, "swearing" it was true, and when I asked where she heard it, no   
   >> surprise, FOAF. Can anyone validate it?  I am sure it's false- it's too   
   >> ridiculous.   
   >>   
   >> Apparently, a woman in London went through a string of bad relationships and   
   >> decided to go celibate. As she had a sense of humor, she dyed her pubic hair   
   >> green and tattooed "Keep off the grass" above it. Some time later, this same   
   >> woman had to have an operation and was under anaesthetic. When she woke up,   
   the   
   >> doctor had shaved her pubes for the operation and written on her thigh in   
   ink,   
   >> "Sorry, I had to mow the lawn."   
   >>   
   >> Now, this is so obviously an UL (what kind of operation spare any in   
   childbirth   
   >> would require shaving the pubes?), but my friend keeps swearing it's true.   
   >> Surely someone out there can give me some backup on this.   
   >>   
   > appendectomy. hernia, pelvic floor problems, lower bowl obstruction, rectal   
   problems, etc....   
   >   
      
   The story is fairly old, nice to see the classics come around now and then.   
      
   Pre-op shaving was once ordinary and fairly extensive, hospitals had   
   manuals showing how much skin was to be shaved pre-op -- shoulder   
   surgery might require shaving with a Weck razor and Betadine soap to the   
   midline back and front, the axilla, and down to the wrist, then   
   rewashing and leaving a coating of dried betadine soap.  The idea was to   
   prevent hairs falling into the operative site and to leave an antiseptic   
   coating on the skin. But it was done on the hospital floor before pre-op   
   meds, not in the OR.   
      
   These days shaving is done with an electric clipper to a limited area   
   during prep.   
      
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