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And by "under the knife" I mean you had an operation. Y'know, like cut-open-your-gut-and-take-out-appendix kinda operation.

I've gone under the knife once for, well, appendicitis. It(the operation, of course) really isn't that bad, as long as you are under anesthetics. It's the recovery that usually sucks. You are stuck in a weird-smelling hospital bed for days, and you can't eat for a few days as well. There's never anything good on the channels they have on the T.V.'s, and the food is... sub-par.

Never.

I did have to get a few stitches, but never surgery

Three
1 I broke my femur so bad when I was 6 that they had to put screws in
2 Cut my finger off when I was 7 in the school door ... hand to be trimmed and then re-attached (just the tip)

3 Got in a fight with a few guys who tried to grab a drunk female friend of mine ... she' was safe I ended up geting stabed from behind in the side ... they had to staple my lung

Once. To repair my right ankle(damaged my achilles tendon)

I could have given several examples, but you specified hospital operations so I'll have to say 'never'.

thankfully, never.
i was in a bad car crash when i was 11 and they were gonna do surgery on my shattered wrist, but they called in a consultant who snapped/poked it all back in place before putting a cast on real quick, meaning no surgery :)
at least thats what i understand happened - i was full of morphine at the time...

Never have, never will. That's what duct tape is for.

I could have given several examples, but you specified hospital operations so I'll have to say 'never'.
You operated on yourself? :confused:

You operated on yourself? :confused:

Not quite, but something along those lines.

Not quite, but something along those lines.
Please do explain. I don't see where it says it has to be in a hospital

Zip - excluding a few trips to the dentist who like drills, knives and sharp things in your mouth.

once when i was 4 weeks old, i still dunno what it was for though but i still have the scar on my tummy

Once... I had something weird in my mouth. They had to cut
it off???

I've had surgery once. It didn't involve a knife, just a fiber optic scope/claw shoved up my penis.

Kidney stone, avery bad kidney stone. They give some great drugs for kidney stones. So great that you don't mind having a claw shved up your penis. But, it is uncomfortable once those drugs wear off.

I've had surgery once. It didn't involve a knife, just a fiber optic scope/claw shoved up my penis.

Kidney stone, avery bad kidney stone. They give some great drugs for kidney stones. So great that you don't mind having a claw shved up your penis. But, it is uncomfortable once those drugs wear off.
that made me cringe and close my legs

Only once in a formal setting. Tonsils.

Blew myself up in a lab accident once, but the glass pieces were small enough that none of the holes they put in me were large enough that they needed stitches. Well, they probably "needed" stitches, but I got by without. :) Nearly bled out, but no surgery necessary.

I've had surgery once. It didn't involve a knife, just a fiber optic scope/claw shoved up my penis.

Kidney stone, avery bad kidney stone. They give some great drugs for kidney stones. So great that you don't mind having a claw shved up your penis. But, it is uncomfortable once those drugs wear off.

Thanks a million for the unbelievably uncomfortable physical sensation you just provoked, not to mention the disturbing mental image.

I've had surgery once. It didn't involve a knife, just a fiber optic scope/claw shoved up my penis.

Kidney stone, avery bad kidney stone. They give some great drugs for kidney stones. So great that you don't mind having a claw shved up your penis. But, it is uncomfortable once those drugs wear off.

:eek:

Reminds of some South American fish which do the same, but getting them out is hell (spiny things). Do not urinate into the Amazon river ...

Will you people STOP? If I cross my legs any tighter I'll definitely be needing surgery.

Once... I had something weird in my mouth. They had to cut
it off???

Heeeeeey me too :p

YAY so far Im .... winning?

Will you people STOP? If I cross my legs any tighter I'll definitely be needing surgery.

So what did expect from a thread like this? Stories of fun things. :)

Knives and blood! I expected knives and blood! I can handle knives and blood! But what you people speak of is a place where nothing should ever be inserted! It's just not the done thing!

So what did expect from a thread like this? Stories of fun things. :)
yeah, but even i found those stories painful and i'm not even a guy

I got my tonsils out when I was about 2.

But i've never broken bones or anything. Yay!

yeah, but even i found those stories painful and i'm not even a guy

I guess I'm really desensitised to these things, but I go watch documentaries on germ warfare and horrible things like that.

I guess I'm really desensitised to these things, but I go watch documentaries on germ warfare and horrible things like that.
Hee, same here.
I spent yesterday reading about some of the terrible things that happened to experiment subjects in Japan during WWII.
Unit 731 an' all that.
Reading about vivsections is a tad on the desensitizing side...

Hee, same here.
I spent yesterday reading about some of the terrible things that happened to experiment subjects in Japan during WWII.

Yes, the same doctors who go fix us are also capable of using us as experiments for science. :confused:

Yes, the same doctors who go fix us are also capable of using us as experiments for science. :confused:
Huh?
What?
:confused:

How about "drug you up and remove your wisdom teeth" types of operations?

Huh?
What?
:confused:

Doctors and drug companies use us as guinea pigs every day in many forms.
Surgery or drugs that don't work, well, kills patients. So if doesn't work, they stop it.

Doctors and drug companies use us as guinea pigs every day in many forms.
Surgery or drugs that don't work, well, kills patients. So if doesn't work, they stop it.
Yeah...
I was more wondering what exactly that has to do with the Japanese in WWII and Unit 731...
:confused:

Will you people STOP? If I cross my legs any tighter I'll definitely be needing surgery.

I've had four operations, but I'll spare the details, so that you can all keep some degree of sanity. I had to get one type of operation done twice because it didn't work properly (the op wasn't botched, but it wasn't effective).

As an aside, though, I'm a bit of a wimp when it comes to surgery. Local or general? General for me! Can't stand being awake...

Twice. The first time I had an appendectomy, and the second time I had a xanthoma removed from the distal phalange of my left index finger.

I've had two gastroscopies (fiberobtic tube down my esophagus and into my stomach/duodenum) done, where tissue samples were taken as part of a study on the effects of nitrogen oxide on gastric and duodenal mucosa. Got a decent amount of money for it.

And then I've assisted at numerous surgeries myself.

Yeah...
I was more wondering what exactly that has to do with the Japanese in WWII and Unit 731...
:confused:

OK, what you're talking about is the Japanese being horrible and nasty using humans as guinea pigs for some unpleasant experiments (like the Nazi's did to the Jews and others).

In our market system, a silent version is occurring. The drug companies do not want the expense of releasing drugs with expensive trials, so they buy out the authorities who control this system so the drugs go out faster. If the drug does have bad side effects, they cover it up. In effect, we are being used to test new drugs for commercial profit, whether it works or not.

And by "under the knife" I mean you had an operation. Y'know, like cut-open-your-gut-and-take-out-appendix kinda operation.

I've gone under the knife once for, well, appendicitis. It(the operation, of course) really isn't that bad, as long as you are under anesthetics. It's the recovery that usually sucks. You are stuck in a weird-smelling hospital bed for days, and you can't eat for a few days as well. There's never anything good on the channels they have on the T.V.'s, and the food is... sub-par.
You're being very charitable about the food, in most cases. The best food I've had in a hospital was at Womack Army Hospital, Fort Bragg, NC. Surprising, eh?

I've been operated on five times: age 6 for a tonsilectomy, age 10 for a double-hernia operation, age 25 for an appendectomy, and twice for my shattered femur when I was 53.

If you count having wisdom teeth removed, add two more.

OK, what you're talking about is the Japanese being horrible and nasty using humans as guinea pigs for some unpleasant experiments (like the Nazi's did to the Jews and others).

In our market system, a silent version is occurring. The drug companies do not want the expense of releasing drugs with expensive trials, so they buy out the authorities who control this system so the drugs go out faster. If the drug does have bad side effects, they cover it up. In effect, we are being used to test new drugs for commercial profit, whether it works or not.
A-ha, so you were using my statement to go off on a similar tangent! It all makes sense now.
For a moment there, I thought you were trying to argue against me and say that no atrocities happened in Japan during WWII. Man was I confused there.

And back to the original topic of the thread, I have had surgery once. It was mouth surgery, and it was very unpleasant.

Let's see, Apendix and Tonsils, check...

Hit by a car when I was six (while riding my bike.) That one necessitated getting a broken rib taken out of a lung and some minor stuff.

Forgetting to duck in Big Mistake in the Gulf Number One (Desert Storm to most of you.) That entailed almost a dozen surgeries before Humpty Dumpty was put back together again. Left ankle, left knee, right hip, bladder...

I'm a friggin walking box of metal bits that makes it so I have to carry my medical records with me when I fly, just so folks at the metal detectors will understand.

Sometimes, when I sit back and think about things like this, I'm amazed I ever lived to reach adulthood, much less middle age.

A-ha, so you were using my statement to go off on a similar tangent! It all makes sense now.
For a moment there, I thought you were trying to argue against me and say that no atrocities happened in Japan during WWII. Man was I confused there.

And back to the original topic of the thread, I have had surgery once. It was mouth surgery, and it was very unpleasant.

Surgery anywhere near the mouth is just, unpleasant. I have to get rid of my wisdom teeth sometime. :confused:

Let's see, Apendix and Tonsils, check...

Hit by a car when I was six (while riding my bike.) That one necessitated getting a broken rib taken out of a lung and some minor stuff.

Forgetting to duck in Big Mistake in the Gulf Number One (Desert Storm to most of you.) That entailed almost a dozen surgeries before Humpty Dumpty was put back together again. Left ankle, left knee, right hip, bladder...

I'm a friggin walking box of metal bits that makes it so I have to carry my medical records with me when I fly, just so folks at the metal detectors will understand.

Sometimes, when I sit back and think about things like this, I'm amazed I ever lived to reach adulthood, much less middle age.

You sound like Bionic man!

2 c-sections: one emergency, one planned.

And I've had a few dental surgeries, but I don't really count those, since they didn't require hospitalization.

In general, I react very poorly to anesthesia, so the less the better.

Ive had 6 surgeries. Ive had an operation for a hernia, a surgery on my eye, and to take out some kind of cancer( melanoma I think), plus 3 different surgeries to cut out parts of my feet. its fun im used to the pain now.

Let's see, Apendix and Tonsils, check...

Hit by a car when I was six (while riding my bike.) That one necessitated getting a broken rib taken out of a lung and some minor stuff.

Forgetting to duck in Big Mistake in the Gulf Number One (Desert Storm to most of you.) That entailed almost a dozen surgeries before Humpty Dumpty was put back together again. Left ankle, left knee, right hip, bladder...

I'm a friggin walking box of metal bits that makes it so I have to carry my medical records with me when I fly, just so folks at the metal detectors will understand.

Sometimes, when I sit back and think about things like this, I'm amazed I ever lived to reach adulthood, much less middle age.

Wow .. that's pretty amazing.

Never been in hospital for anything physical. Apart from being born and visiting people.

I almost had one to get my gallbladder out. Then the gallstones all left on their own accord and I didn't need the surgery any more. The doctor still wanted to take it out in case they came back, which may or may not happen at some point in the future; but I just said no. If there's the need to take it out later, I'll have it removed, but while there's no need, I'd rather keep it.

If you count mouth stuff, I had a tooth growing inside my mouth (not where they usually grow, nearer the tongue) and had it taken out before it messed all the other teeth and chewed on my tongue.

18 years and nothing has gone wrong with me yet, apart from a slight case of shortsightedness. If only I could say the same for my mental health...

In-patient surgery: Strabismus eye muscle surgery for an exotropia at age 8. Two nights in the hospital, and a trip to Disneyworld. :D

Out-patient: 4 impacted wisdom teeth in one go. 4 hours at the clinic and some awesome pain drugs to take home.... :D

Let's see, Apendix and Tonsils, check...

Hit by a car when I was six (while riding my bike.) That one necessitated getting a broken rib taken out of a lung and some minor stuff.

Forgetting to duck in Big Mistake in the Gulf Number One (Desert Storm to most of you.) That entailed almost a dozen surgeries before Humpty Dumpty was put back together again. Left ankle, left knee, right hip, bladder...

I'm a friggin walking box of metal bits that makes it so I have to carry my medical records with me when I fly, just so folks at the metal detectors will understand.

Sometimes, when I sit back and think about things like this, I'm amazed I ever lived to reach adulthood, much less middle age.
ROFLMAO!!! I know how you feel! :D

Hmm, three incidents I would consider actual surgery.
1. A car crash when I was 5. Compound fractured my left femur and was laid up for 4 months and in a full leg and waist cast for another two. Then down to a short cast for the last month and a 1/2. Had to learn to walk properly again.
2. Age 6, another car crash I shattered my jaw in this one, forever fucking up my teeth and making me need major dental work. They did wire it back together, however.
3. Age 17, went in to get posts put in for two permanent fake teeth in my bottom jaw, and of course the damned bone crumbled because it was too thin to properly use. Had to have a friggin bridge put in instead.


The myriad incidents that didn't require actual surgery.

Age 7, managed to get a dime stuck in my sinus cavity(don't ask), had to go in to the doctor to get it pulled out.

Age 11, nasty bike accident #1, had to get 16 stitches to put the skin over my knee back in place.

A couple months after bike accident #1, accident #2 happens. This one involved a big hill, and a rock in the middle of the road at the end of the big hill. It happened a little after dusk. I managed to flip over the handlebars face first into the road. Luckily I was wearing braces still because of the car accident, and so I only chipped a tooth. Went to the dentist who pulled my upper teeth back into their proper places and had to replace all the dental wire.

Last summer there was an incident with a roman candle fight, and one of the projectiles lodged in my skin. Not fun, although it didn't require anything but a lot of ice and not putting any pressure on the burn for a week.

Other than the shrink....yes my mum thought I wasn't normal...shrink differed I haven't been to the main hospitol for anything.
I did however go to a foot specialist (ug training) hospitol for several years. My feet rolled in, and despite my GP's assurances I'd 'grow out of it' to some extent I didn't, and had knee problems. Apparently I was terriby fascinating at one point with biro down the back of my legs and 'super extra dorsal rotation' (er...right, something to do with how far my ankles went round) and got about 15 different 'doctors' staring at me. What was more infuriating is you'd get different doctors each week, and if they could they would have made me change days (1st years Monday, 3rd years Thursday...) so the whole shennanigans repeated each week.
Hooray for the NHS :eyeroll:
Finally got some innersoles until one day in my dislike of shoes managed to get something in my foot. Doctors took bets whether it was a vurrocca(sp?) or glass etc. After several weeks of 'drawing out' stuff, pain and I'm sure it coming out. They decided to cut me open and see. Got a teacher doc (\o/), local anesthetic and a lot of 'grey flesh' cut out of my foot.
And that's my long-winded scalpel story.
(unlike my mum who's been in and out of hospitol since I remember for one thing or another, from retina reattachment, endoscopies in both ends, implants, allergy testing (90% of them positive :rolleyes: ) digestion problems, back problems etc etc)

Surgeries??.. uh.. 21 I think.

All 21 operations was because of my right foot which was caught in a faulty theme park escalator when I was 10. Nearly ripped my foot into 2 if it weren't for my tough shoes.

I had like 200+ stitches, required micro-surgery, taking tissue and veins from under my armpit, and skin from my right thigh.

Actually out of the 21 operations. 6 of them were major microsurgery, the rest was more of cleaning up the leg, as it was contaminated with oil and other gunk. Luckily it didn't get horribly infected if not they probably had to amputate.

Twice for me. I had a inguinal hernia removed which had descended into my scrotum when I was 5, and I had all 4 of my wisdom teeth removed in 2002.

How about self surgical adventures?

'IT PUTS THE LOTION IN THE BUCKET!!!!'

:eek:

never had an operation even though i should have once. i nearly cut my finger off when i ran through a glass door at 6 but my mum decided, hey, i'll just leave it in some freezing cold water and hope it'll be ok. and yes, i was ok, luckily enough..

i had breast implants.


then i got them removed.

Woah! That must have been expensive.
What made you do that?
Not that my mum's terribly happy with hers: I'm still bigger than her! :p

emergency c section - if it hadnt been done both myself and my son wouldnt be here now

Age 7, managed to get a dime stuck in my sinus cavity(don't ask), had to go in to the doctor to get it pulled out.


ask what? what is there to ask? you shoved a dime up your nose.

Woah! That must have been expensive.
What made you do that?
Not that my mum's terribly happy with hers: I'm still bigger than her! :p
get them? -stupidity-
remove them?- intelligence-

expensive for my parents, who were more than happy to pay to remove them.

I voted zero because I've never actually been cut open.

I was hospitalized when I was three. I needed a good amount of blood transfusions, but no surgery.

When I was around eight or so, I split my head open on the tv stand, and I needed stiches, but again, that doesn't count.

I broke my foot a couple years ago, and almost needed surgery. The doctor said that there was one bone that was almost seperated enough to need it, but it would be fine without any.

Those are the major things that have happened to me. I seem to injure myself a good amount, but surgery never seems to be involved.

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ask what? what is there to ask? you shoved a dime up your nose.
No, no, managed to get a dime stuck up my nose. I didn't put it there.

I've had surgery once. It didn't involve a knife, just a fiber optic scope/claw shoved up my penis.

Kidney stone, avery bad kidney stone. They give some great drugs for kidney stones. So great that you don't mind having a claw shved up your penis. But, it is uncomfortable once those drugs wear off.


I may need more surgery now to unclench my jaw and uncurl my toes.

In-patient surgery: Strabismus eye muscle surgery for an exotropia at age 8. Two nights in the hospital, and a trip to Disneyworld. :D

Out-patient: 4 impacted wisdom teeth in one go. 4 hours at the clinic and some awesome pain drugs to take home.... :D


I pulled a lower wisdom tooth with needle nose vise grip pliers. The crown of the tooth was missing for a week and it hurt to breathe. It throbbed at night. I couldnt stand it anymore.The tooth cracked in two, which actually made it's removal easier. The tooth pain went right away and after a peroxide gargle and several advils I slept like a baby.
An orthodontist pulled the others when I got better insurance.

I've had an ingrown toe nail removed 5 times but fortunately have never had a serious operation.

The appendectomy was the most painful...

...and they say sepsis is a bad thing...

I've had an ingrown toe nail removed 5 times but fortunately have never had a serious operation.


I had those removed too. They have to take some meat away too and then burn the root of the nail so it doesnt continue to come in the wrong way.
Its painful and really sucks. Mine have been healthy for over 20 years now.
I hope yours dont give you any more trouble.

once when i was 4 weeks old, i still dunno what it was for though but i still have the scar on my tummy

me too :) right above my bellybutton, The opening leading out of my stomach was closed or something so i couldt keep my food down.

I had to get a tumor (not the cancerous kind, so I could just call it a growth, but come on, tumor sounds much cooler) removed from the tip of my left ring finger/under the nail. That was some fun. Waaaaaay too many shots in one finger, though. And apparently the doctor was absent the day they explained that if the machine that cauterizes the wound suddenly stops working, check the connections FIRST! Do NOT just TURN IT UP to see if it works, and THEN check the connections.

But I had the coolest looking crater in the tip of my finger... it was awesome.

Never. I haven't stayed overnight in hospital since I was a little pathetic premature baby either. Go me.

I may need more surgery now to unclench my jaw and uncurl my toes.

same here >.<

The only procedure I've had was getting stitches, and I was awake to see.

I pulled a lower wisdom tooth with needle nose vise grip pliers. The crown of the tooth was missing for a week and it hurt to breathe. It throbbed at night. I couldnt stand it anymore.The tooth cracked in two, which actually made it's removal easier. The tooth pain went right away and after a peroxide gargle and several advils I slept like a baby.
An orthodontist pulled the others when I got better insurance.

Prescription strength Codine = very happy Daistallia. :D

I almost had one to get my gallbladder out. Then the gallstones all left on their own accord and I didn't need the surgery any more. The doctor still wanted to take it out in case they came back, which may or may not happen at some point in the future; but I just said no. If there's the need to take it out later, I'll have it removed, but while there's no need, I'd rather keep it.

If you count mouth stuff, I had a tooth growing inside my mouth (not where they usually grow, nearer the tongue) and had it taken out before it messed all the other teeth and chewed on my tongue.


I had my gallbladder removed laproscopically after having an attack almost daily lasting over a half hour each. Some of the worst pain I ever experienced. There were complications as it was deeply embedded in my liver so the procedure went for over 3 hours and required extra incisions. Having them cut through your navel is not a plus-who care wether you have 4 scars or 5 showing? The navel incision hurt the most and took the longest to heal.
Then two days after being released, I woke up at 4 in the morning with pain worse than the attacks-lasting over an hour till IV pain killers-demerol and something else stopped it. After several tests, the doctors said it may have been gas....

Prescription strength Codine = very happy Daistallia. :D


codeine has made me really naseous in the past. A shot of demerol in the butt and you feel the pain rinse away like you were in a shower of warm anesthesia

My appendix burst before they could remove it. I wouldn't wish that stuff on my worst enemy.
I don't remember much from the three days in intensive care after the operation because they gave me loads of morphine. Except one thing, the nasty smell of my pee from all the antibiotics.

My appendix burst before they could remove it. I wouldn't wish that stuff on my worst enemy.
I don't remember much from the three days in intensive care after the operation because they gave me loads of morphine. Except one thing, the nasty smell of my pee from all the antibiotics.


Thats right up there with a full blown heart attack-you're lucky to have survived.

More than 8 all involving the groin area.

Thats right up there with a full blown heart attack-you're lucky to have survived.

It didn't do any permanent damage though and I was really lucky not to get any infections. I didn't realize how serious it was untill long after I came home from the hospital. What I remember the most were those huge doses of antibiotics. That stuff somehow makes *everything* smell horrible.

I may need more surgery now to unclench my jaw and uncurl my toes.

It isn't that bad, really. Its just a little uncomfortable. I think not being able to pee for more than an hour having nearly 2 liters of die in my blader was worse than the actual insertion.

I wasn't even awake for the original surgery, but they put in a stint to help my kidney drain and that had to be removed.
They don't use any anestetic for that, as it is an outpatient procedure. That was uncomfortable but it wasn't too bad.

I just recomend that everyone drink plenty of fluids to keep the plumbing running properly. This advice applies to women as well as men. We all have kidneys and we all have urethras.

I'm just glad it was a kidney stone and not testicular torsion. Now that makes me squeemish.

It isn't that bad, really. Its just a little uncomfortable. I think not being able to pee for more than an hour having nearly 2 liters of die in my blader was worse than the actual insertion.

I wasn't even awake for the original surgery, but they put in a stint to help my kidney drain and that had to be removed.
They don't use any anestetic for that, as it is an outpatient procedure. That was uncomfortable but it wasn't too bad.

I just recomend that everyone drink plenty of fluids to keep the plumbing running properly. This advice applies to women as well as men. We all have kidneys and we all have urethras.

I'm just glad it was a kidney stone and not testicular torsion. Now that makes me squeemish.


yeah-testicular tortion usually culminates with the removal of said teste and a change in the tone of your voice.
I'd still rather pull another of my own wisdom teeth, if given the choice.

It didn't do any permanent damage though and I was really lucky not to get any infections. I didn't realize how serious it was untill long after I came home from the hospital. What I remember the most were those huge doses of antibiotics. That stuff somehow makes *everything* smell horrible.


The blood poisoning after a ruptured appendix is the main thisng I think. You're lucky, though, I'm sure it was still an ordeal.

The blood poisoning after a ruptured appendix is the main thisng I think. You're lucky, though, I'm sure it was still an ordeal.

Actually, I didn't know that. I know they were really scared of me getting a condition which I don't know the english word for. It's a swelling of some membrane in there. It didn't happen though.

yeah-testicular tortion usually culminates with the removal of said teste and a change in the tone of your voice.
I'd still rather pull another of my own wisdom teeth, if given the choice.

What's a testicular tortion? It sounds frightening :eek:

Just gall bladder removal surgery. The doctor gave me a digital photo montage of the operation as a souvenir. Good times.

Just gall bladder removal surgery. The doctor gave me a digital photo montage of the operation as a souvenir. Good times.Your doctor has a strange sense of esthetics/humor.

I'm sqeekily healthy myself; never been in a hospital for treatment of any description.

Your doctor has a strange sense of esthetics/humor.

I'm sqeekily healthy myself; never been in a hospital for treatment of any description.


Thats good for you- keep up whatever you're doing-it seems to be working.

Thats good for you- keep up whatever you're doing-it seems to be working.Being 18, in decent shape, and from a health-freaky family helps. :)

Being 18, in decent shape, and from a health-freaky family helps. :)


I didnt start hitting any bumbs in the road till I was 30. Most of the stuff can be prevented by a healthy diet and regualr excercise.

Three times.

Once when I was three, I cracked my head open spinning around in a circle in the local dry cleaners. Hit the plate glass window moving pretty fast (for a three year old).


Second time - hyperextended my knee playing soccer.

They had to cut out a piece of my medial miniscus (small tendon within the knee joint)


Third Time - testicular torsion. That hurt like a bitch.


The last two times I was on morphine for the operations which made the recovery process so much better.

None, thank you, but I did have some stitches in.

I hope I never need surgery either, because, as I found out at stitches time, anaesthetic doesn't work on me.

None, thank you, but I did have some stitches in.

I hope I never need surgery either, because, as I found out at stitches time, anaesthetic doesn't work on me.

Yeesh... I'm glad the painkillers worked on me, because when they tried to put one in without them, it was horrible.

Third Time - testicular torsion. That hurt like a bitch.


did you learn your lesson?? the one about making me mad???

I didnt start hitting any bumbs in the road till I was 30. Most of the stuff can be prevented by a healthy diet and regualr excercise.

Not appendicitis.

I was a happy, energetic young boy who loved to play sports. I ran and I ran. I was goalie, I was right-field, I was whereever you needed me. I even played Cricket!(I was in Pakistan and the time of the operation). I would then eat some scrumptious(und healthy) food made by my cook.

Then, the appendicitis got me.

So, a word to everyone: Being healthy, young, and active does NOT make you invincible.

I got hit in the eye with a baseball when I was 11 yrs old. The coach & the rest of the players said it sounded like I caughtr the ball because it made that smacking sound like a ball does when it hits leather. Anyway it broke the bone under my eye & the muscle poked through & started catching on the bone when I moved my eye. They had to go in pull the bone apart & build a hard plastic shelf under my eye. My surgeon did an amazing job though. You can only see the small scar if you get really close & look where the natural crease is by my left eye. The surgery took over 5 hrs.

I had to have surgery on my arm the 3rd time I broke it. I also had to have surgery on my toe once for reasons... you wouldn't want to know.

Had a bowel resection and bladder repair in one go. I have crohns disease, the fistulizing version, yeah!
There was a fistula from my small intestine into my bladder with some really nasty results. They had to remove 15cm of bowel and repair the bladder, I feel a hell of a lot better and since I began drinking a little my crohns has virtually disappeared.