Recovering from surgery SUCKS.

[mattimeo]

Just had an inguinal hernia repaired. Friggin frustrating not being able to move properly. The weather has been beautiful in the Wairarapa, I keep hearing motorbikes pass on the road. Its torture! Never been so bored in my life.

The worst part is whenever I cough or sneeze, I'm in agony! I don't recommend getting hernia operations for fun.

[Blackbird]

I completely sympathise with your predicament! Had mine done a few years back. It was memorable for the fact that I was recovering from surgery at the exact time that 9/11 was occuring and the nurse woke me in the middle of the night and stuck the TV on to show me what was going on. In my drugged state, I wondered why she woke me up to show me a disaster movie!

Best wishes for a speedy recovery.

[vifferman]

WHat part of your anatomy is an inguina?

[Bloody Mad Woman (BMW)]

hope you have a speedy recovery - hope you don't get hayfever then lol.
I have surgery in Feb - on my knee - and I won't be allowed on my bike for 2 months.

[Blackbird]

WHat part of your anatomy is an inguina?

Close to where most women think a guy's brains are:shifty:

[mstriumph]

yeah - recovering from surgery MIGHT suck ......... but it's a damn sight better than the alternative :yes:

give thanks!!

[or carry on moaning - as you wish ........ we'll be sympathetic, either way]

[Paul in NZ]

I'll swap you a herina scar for my testicle scar

[scott411]

try spending 7 weeks in waikato hospital after surgery, that really sucks,

and i can normally win scar contests easy

[janno]

Ah quit your bitching! Typical bloody bloke.

Wait til you get in to double figures for major ops, then I'll listen to ya.

Wuss.

[Pwalo]

Yep, it pretty much does.

[vifferman]

I have a very tidy appendix scar, accompanied by a very ugly drain scar.:o
Courtesy of Jenny Shipley, and the nurses strike her ministering of the Health portfolio seems to have provoked.
Or summat.

You can have the pair of them as a trade, if you want - I'm not very fond of them. :crazy:

But apparently, if I didn't have them, I'd be kinda dead right now.

[mattimeo]

I'll swap you a herina scar for my testicle scar

Hahaha... No my friend, I had decided to omit that bit. I also had a cyst taken out from down below (they thought it was a tumor, turned out to be a benign cyst). It was all done through the one incision but the bruising is intense.

I get bad heyfever so trying not to sneeze has been an issue of late.

[The Pastor]

"hey dr chan.... I don't think it was this patient who was in for the vasectomy... i think it was one bed over"

'did you switch the charts again? your such a kidder'

"hahaha yeah got you good"

'you so did'

[riffer]

Sorry mate but I've had an inguinal hernia repair (mesh repair) and its a walk in the park. You need to seriously harden up. :girlfight:

Try a ACL/medial ligament reconstruction using patella tendon grafts. That hurts a bit more.

Or a vasectomy. My vasectomy made my balls completely black and blue for two weeks and gave me a ball sack the size of a tennis ball... though I guess Paul's one might beat it. Sounds like the vasectomy from hell.

[TonyB]

Yeah it does suck a bit. Even though what you've had done is pretty minor*, just take it easy and don't do anything stupid- you might feel like a wimp but the complications just aren't worth it.

*Try have your guts opened up from ribs to pubes:pinch:

[fireball]

you all need to HTFU
ops yeah they are not fun.. i had one go wrong now i am blind in one eye i think i would rather all your pain all at once.... just to be able to see like a normal person.

you are all fortunate.

[ynot slow]

you all need to HTFU
ops yeah they are not fun..
you are all fortunate.

Yep agree with you about being fortunate.Everyones ideas are different re surgery.

I'd swap my scar no worries,mid stomach to pubic bone.But if I didn't have it I would be dead.Bowell cancer isn't much fun,especially when you have to cough and sneeze,then the nurses give you deep breathing exercises to stop pneumonia setting in,which can have the side effect of coughing.

Not nice but hey just keep positive,someone else is worse off.

[pritch]

*Try have your guts opened up from ribs to pubes:pinch:

I can introduce you to a guy who had something similar with no anaesthetic.
An unfortunate incident involving mortars...

And I have a slight sense of unease about a possible knee operation?

[Usarka]

Sorry mate but I've had an inguinal hernia repair (mesh repair) and its a walk in the park. You need to seriously harden up. :girlfight:

Try a ACL/medial ligament reconstruction using patella tendon grafts. That hurts a bit more.

Or a vasectomy. My vasectomy made my balls completely black and blue for two weeks and gave me a ball sack the size of a tennis ball... though I guess Paul's one might beat it. Sounds like the vasectomy from hell.

Sounds like you need a better doctor!

[riffer]

Sounds like you need a better doctor!

Yeah maybe. I dunno. Margaret Sparrow did my vasectomy. She's done thousands. Interestingly though, the same thing happened to my brother when he had his done and I found out in conversation with my mother a year or so later that the same thing had happened to my dad.

Typical fathers - I had no idea he'd even had one. :wacko:

[TonyB]

I can introduce you to a guy who had something similar with no anaesthetic.
An unfortunate incident involving mortars...

If mine was an unfortunate accident involving a chainsaw, would I win?;)

Fireball, I sympathise with you, but if you want to pull that card out I have dealings with people who have lost a lot more than just the sight in one eye due to medical misadventure. Try oxygen depletion under general anesthisa leading to severe brain damage- I know at least two of them. Or getting perscribed two medications that when used together cause massive damage to your internal organs turning the guy from a big, strong man into a near basket case in just one week.