Ah! I bet you use a black cat.
You read me like an open book 
Nice one
Sighā¦ Iāll give you the likeā¦ but Iām not happy about it
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This thread is freakinā interesting - still, Rosco, donāt get me wrong, I feel bad for what youāre having there. But I have never ever heard about an implant doing such crazy stuffā¦ Iām visiting my bodmod-artist again in two weeks, guess Iāll ask him what strange things might happen to implants - he didnāt tell me about fibrous encapsulation or whatever that is, and he told me a lot about what might or might not happenā¦ so, might be new to him as well.
But I still hope that the encapsulation stops when itās ādoneā, so you might get a biopsy from the middle (to check itās nothing ādangerousā^^) and then just live on with it 
I doubt itās dangerous. It seems pretty tame overall. Itās just that itās freaking me out each time it starts again, and my arm isnāt exactly great to look at from certain angles as a result.
The new fibrous funk that has grown yesterday has dimmed two of the LEDs a bit more, but it has an interesting side effect: in pitch darkness, it diffuses the light enough that I can clearly see the outline of a goodly portion of the implant, as well as the hole in the middle as a blurry, slightly darker patch.
I tried to take a photo, but my point-and-shoot camera isnāt exactly up to the task. Still, you can kind of make out the round halo above the two upper LEDs that the funk has grown on top of:
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Thats really cool
If I ever make that smart inductor bracelet I plan on making, Iām ready to hit the town and be the star of the local nightclubs baby!
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Iām way too excited for the Apex. Took me too long to realize the sarcasm in the comment.
Wow, eleven days to be exact. You must be VERY excited
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Haha my activity on the forum has been dropping due to moving. Just found the thread, but itās still a length of time Iām not willing to admit.
Okay, my 60 hours lying down are up, and the pocket is dry as a bone - and I feel quite seasick when I get up now. The doNExT still makes a sizeable lump on my wrist, but itās noticeably smaller. Quite pleased about that.
Now Iām off to work. Hopefully itāll stay that way, otherwise Iām gonna be slightly annoyedā¦
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Okay, Iām getting somewhere with the x-ray. I have a script, but only for my right hand / wrist. The doctor said x-ray imagery is very tightly controlled here, and they canāt go around prescribing x-rays willy-nilly without a very good reason - at least not without one they can justify if theyāre audited.
In this case, the funk buildup on the implant qualifies. Although she told me it would be more logical for her to prescribe an ultrasound. But I told her the vibrations might delaminate the chip and would be unsafe, and she deemed the justification plausible enough to put on her case report.
Anyhow, in the end I told her I needed images for a presentation Iāll be giving at an upcoming transhumanist conference, and I told her that while they were clearly not needed from a medical standpoint, the shots would be a nice plus. She sympathized very much and wrote me as vague a prescription as she felt she could get away with.
She was very intrigued by all this, and asked me a lot of questions about all my implants. She asked if she could feel them all, how they worked, and if I could do a demo. That sure lasted more than 15 minutes.
Best of all, I only paid EUR 90.90: she applied some discount for non-important problems that didnāt require more than 5 minutes of consultation
So, x-ray at 12:10 today then. Iāll see if I can get the radiologist excited enough to do me another one of my other hand āon the sideā, hush-hush-like.
The moral of this is, if you want an x-ray done, make sure thereās some kind of an issue with your implant(s) that the doc deems worthy of investigation. The funk buildup served as a nice trojan horse after all.
Oh and yeah, speaking of that, she said itās an unusually large collagen buildup. She said she normally saw that around non-biocompatible foreign object that got embedded into the flesh years prior, and that it was unusual so soon and with one that doesnāt cause inflammation or infection. But she said itās fine and I donāt need a biopsy. So she cancelled that. She said the growth may or may not stop, but from what I told her, itās unlikely to grow much larger. Maybe a few more minor flare-ups, but the foreign object is so well covered now that she canāt think of a reason why my body would want to add more of the stuff.
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Interesting, perhaps the hole worked against you and made your body think of it as a larger āopen woundā sort of thing? And by having the more solid implant the body doesnāt see an open cavity? Iām definitely not a doctor, but seems odd that itās just yours thatās had the reaction.
Sounds like a variable, and science demands that we test it
@anon3825968 needs a flexnext stat
Iām hoping the x-ray will show the funk, to see what it looks like instead of feeling it.
Another issue: the hospital just informed me they donāt cut souvenir CDs of your medical images. I might have to go back see the specialist so she can download them for me - to the tune of EUR 90.90 no doubt.
EDIT: and the paper slip I see on my windshield from the waiting room will no doubt help make this the most expensive xray Iāll have ever takenā¦ 
Okay done. Two doNExT photos on the way. No more. The radiologist was having none of my pleading: she said doctorās orders only, lest she gets into trouble. Jeezusā¦
You must keep us in the loop for this. Iām still very new to making things so my plan was just to tape a reader onto a raspberry pi and chuck a battery pack on it to show off my blinkies XD
Your plan sounds abit more compact.
Lol! The doNExT is almost completely radiolucent:
Not much to look at for 240.70 euros. Good thing my trusty IAR EM4305 is there to liven things up a bit
Iām gonna start crowdfunding my expensive and useless implant ideas too I thinkā¦
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No no its not but thats so bloody cool, its also good to know it and similar implants wonāt block of mask issues with bones. Although does also raise concerns of how do you check on a flex 
ultrasound maybe?
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Hahaha, thanks for sharing, that was veryā¦ ummā¦ anticlimacticā¦
The blinkies were interesting though first time I have seen them under xray
What was your parking fine?