DAY 3 - afternoon
Entry point mini-nodules cauterization:
You know the tiny mini-nodules on the entry points?
I said yes to the cauterization. Did 5 small spots. There is just a little numbing injection (much less painful than before the
PMMA) and then burning with an electro-pen or something.
She said there will be tiny wounds for a few days only, then a little bit of discoloration, then after a few weeks also discoloration will be gone. I hope this is true. Wouldn’t want to exchange hardly noticeable tiny tiny nodules with noticeable discoloration which reminds people of std’s and makes people ask questions.
Put one picture here with 3 dots after the cauterization: the upper right spot is the one taht was cauterized, the other 2 spots are entry points from this round. Funnily they look supermuch the same.
Ian Meeting:
No more bandages cause no more bleeding (edit: later i will shower and there will be bleeding on one entry point). He just said to prevent retraction. I am a total shower and already in the last round i basically never retracted, so i imagine i don’t have to worry about that.
Right now it looks nice symmetrical, but of course that’s because of the swelling -> i know from last round the irregularities seemed to only appeared really at day 21! (see pics from last round on how it first looked right after procedure, then i guess 6 days after vs a year after)
Two pics added - the one with the measurement stick i guess i am not 100%
Erect, which shows irregularities less, the other one shows slight irregularities. Hm. I judge having no irregularities is really beautiful, and the small irregularities are ok. And i'll really see how it looks in about 2 weeks i guess, when swelling is mostly gone.
Getting pesos and stuff:
There is a money exchange in C1, but they don’t take euros, only dollars. In the airports they take euros. There are 2 ATM’s in grandhotel lobby, one that gives dollars, one that gives pesos (i paid i think 150pesos fee + 10 euros fee for that, so that is super-pricey). Stupidly i exchanged too little in the airport and now gotta get some pesos for taxi to airport (price should be 250, i got myself 300) on thursday evening and food for tomorrow.
So i went to 2 other money exchanges nearby. They only take dollars. Then went to intercam bank, they don’t euro exchange. Also couldn’t send me anywhere. Right next door is ‘Bandorte’, she told me yes they do exchange euros for pesos, but i need a passport. Go back and get my passport. Then she says (well, with telephone as translator, nobody there speaks english) that i need passport + migration form. I tell them that they don’t give out migration forms in airport migration anymore (they really don’t, i asked the lady ‘where is migration form’ and she said ‘just the stamp in passport’ - but i never ready anywhere that they stopped with the migration form - ok, now i read in internet that Mexico phases out Migration Form starting summer 2022 and puts stamp in passport instead). Of course my explanation in english makes no difference to them. They sent me to another bank. Bank said they don’t do that here. I told Ian and he told me he can exchange 20e to 21usd, i did that and yea, saved. Should have calculated how much pesos i need for whole trip, take that euro cash with me and convert it in a money exchange in mexico city airport.