(Blog) Something I wouldn't wish upon my worst enemy

[Bird]

I sympathize with you. I had surgery a few months back... you know... um... well... the kind where you walk in as a stud and leave as a dud? Well, I felt that exact same way. Geeez, was it bad. I started wondering if the surgery went wrong, it was so bad.

The key is that you have to listen to what they tell you to do for post-op. If you're like me, there is no possible way you can lay low and sit around on the couch for a few days, let alone a few minutes or hours even. I was up and about as soon as I got home and boy-oh-boy did I ever pay for it. I'm talking bruising to the point of turning black I thought the surgery got botched and I might lose important parts.

After a week or so, everything was fine.

I did that one in 1969, and on a Friday evening so I didn't miss any work since it was one of those few times that I had a weekend off. I've always said it was one of the few times I really felt like I got my money's worth from a doctor.

And once when I was a lieutenant working an evening shift, one of my patrolmen had that done one morning and came to work at 3 o'clock that afternoon; just didn't want to call in sick. But I made him go home and take that one day off anyway.

 

[frank_f15]

OUCH!!! never had that done, but did have all my teeth extracted last Sept. NOT PLEASENT. fOLLOW THE DR. INSTRUCTIONS and do not over do it, as i did when i had my hand operated on a few years back seems i have the same condtion on my right hand now that i had on the left hand, trying to hold off till late fall. darn shame when a guy can't do what he used to

 

[dieselsmoke1]

I know the drill on the hernia event. I've lifted way over my weight more times than I can count, but tore one open on an 8" cinder block in a bad position.....go figure.

I went way too long before mine was fixed. The Doc was a friend, said he would fix me good enough to never bother again. He did, only problem was that I couldn't extend my leg. Had to hop around on one leg while holding the other up for about a week till the muscles stretched enough for my foot to touch the floor.

 

[txdon]

Oh man........ what a time for this subject to come up. I talk to the surgeon next month, maybe it's not that bad.......... ........

 

[Redneck_Randy]

And once when I was a lieutenant working an evening shift, one of my patrolmen had that done one morning and came to work at 3 o'clock that afternoon; just didn't want to call in sick. But I made him go home and take that one day off anyway.

LOL That explains alot. All you hard arsse Harry Callahan's think a slug in the but*t is a splinter. I sleep better at night because of peeps like you.

 

[Redneck_Randy]

Oh man........ what a time for this subject to come up. I talk to the surgeon next month, maybe it's not that bad.......... ........

You remeber when you fell off your bike as a kid and cracked your walnuts on the cross bar .... that times X10 for one full week if your lucky.

I'm being serious. There are things that you can do that I was not told about to make things better and more confrontable during the recovery. It's little things but they are not appropriate for a forum such as this. If serious PM me.

 

[midlf]

It's interesting hearing of this. I don't need one, and don't want it either. There are two types of hernia surgery these days. The traditional with all the cutting and incisions from the outside and new one where they work the tools though incisions, the scope surgery. The recovery times are dramatically different. I have had employees who had it done one way and some who had it done the other. Recovery times were dramatically different. Hernia recovery with traditional surgery was like a month, with the scope style it was like a week.

I would be interested to know from those commenting, which type they had.

 

[rbarker]

You remeber when you fell off your bike as a kid and cracked your walnuts on the cross bar .... that times X10 for one full week if your lucky.

I had a bilateral done with laproscopy and mesh a few years back and while it's not on my list of things I want to do again I did not experience the pain you got! I was uncomfortable for a week and out of work two but all has been fine since.

My first knee scope was worse that that, pain wise.

 

[Bird]

It's interesting hearing of this. I don't need one, and don't want it either. There are two types of hernia surgery these days. The traditional with all the cutting and incisions from the outside and new one where they work the tools though incisions, the scope surgery. The recovery times are dramatically different. I have had employees who had it done one way and some who had it done the other. Recovery times were dramatically different. Hernia recovery with traditional surgery was like a month, with the scope style it was like a week.

I would be interested to know from those commenting, which type they had.

Since I've only seen one such surgery done, I don't know how many ways there are. But he cut a pretty good sized incision and sewed in a mesh patch. Now I don't know, but I figured the reason it was so sore later was because of those two "retractors?" they used so much; looked like two egg turners with the blades bent back so they'd hook them in and pull to stretch that incision open more.

 

[midlf]

Well bird you did not have the laproscopy (thanks rbarker for the name I couldn't remember) if you are taking retractors and stitching. One of my employees brought in a video of his laproscopic hernia procedure. It was very interesting, especially the laproscopic stapler they used to staple the mesh into place.