dynarider
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Reading Due's recent hospital related postings got me thinking. What surgeries/hospilizations have you all had? Don't have to list little stuff like tonsils since most of us have been there & done that.
List your surgeries
StLCardsFan
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Nothing for me. My wife on the other hand is a different story.
I have been 'put under' one time to get my wisdom teeth out.
I have been 'put under' one time to get my wisdom teeth out.
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dynarider
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My list is as such:
When I was 19 had a car accident resulting in a ruptured spleen which was removed, as well as broken 3rd vertebrae resulting in 3 months wearing a halo brace.
Kidney stones numerous times, resulting in sonic blasting to get rid of them.
Crushed my right arm in a work accident back in 89 or so, resulted in a fasciotomy which is where they have to cut you open to reduce the swelling & allow the blood vessels to slowly work themselves back into shape. This resulted in a 3 week stay at the hospital where my arm was cut open with a 9" incision & it stayed that way for 2 weeks. Kinda weird being able to see my muscles & everything for that time period. Afterwards they did a skin graft removing a patch from my leg to seal everything up. After 10 months or so I had to go back & they removed the graft & pulled the skin back together to where it originally was.
Have shatzkis ring which is in the throat, acid reflux kicks it into gear & it closes the throat where it enters the stomach. Basically you can't swallow any food, can breathe but not swallow. Typically food will get caught there & the throat is flexing & trying to force it down but can't get past that ring. Usually it gets worse slowly over a period of weeks & I can schedule a dilation which is where they use a device similar to a ballon to stretch the throat open again. It's done as an out patient procedure but they do knock you out & it messes you up for a couple of days afterwards. Have had this done 5-6 times now, most recently was about 3 weeks ago.
Last but not least was my heart surgery to repair a genetically defective mitral valve. This was done last march & they literally "kill you", stop your heart & put you on the bypass machine while they perform the repair. Procedure went well & I was out of the hospital 2 days afterwards...shocked the hell out of me. But ended up going back in a week later when the sack that surrounds the heart filled with blood from interanl bleeding for a couple of reasons. Ended up having to get that drained & then had a petcock installed for a week while the rest slowly drained out. This was actually worse than the heart surgery.
I think that's it for the big ones, who else has tales of woe?
When I was 19 had a car accident resulting in a ruptured spleen which was removed, as well as broken 3rd vertebrae resulting in 3 months wearing a halo brace.
Kidney stones numerous times, resulting in sonic blasting to get rid of them.
Crushed my right arm in a work accident back in 89 or so, resulted in a fasciotomy which is where they have to cut you open to reduce the swelling & allow the blood vessels to slowly work themselves back into shape. This resulted in a 3 week stay at the hospital where my arm was cut open with a 9" incision & it stayed that way for 2 weeks. Kinda weird being able to see my muscles & everything for that time period. Afterwards they did a skin graft removing a patch from my leg to seal everything up. After 10 months or so I had to go back & they removed the graft & pulled the skin back together to where it originally was.
Have shatzkis ring which is in the throat, acid reflux kicks it into gear & it closes the throat where it enters the stomach. Basically you can't swallow any food, can breathe but not swallow. Typically food will get caught there & the throat is flexing & trying to force it down but can't get past that ring. Usually it gets worse slowly over a period of weeks & I can schedule a dilation which is where they use a device similar to a ballon to stretch the throat open again. It's done as an out patient procedure but they do knock you out & it messes you up for a couple of days afterwards. Have had this done 5-6 times now, most recently was about 3 weeks ago.
Last but not least was my heart surgery to repair a genetically defective mitral valve. This was done last march & they literally "kill you", stop your heart & put you on the bypass machine while they perform the repair. Procedure went well & I was out of the hospital 2 days afterwards...shocked the hell out of me. But ended up going back in a week later when the sack that surrounds the heart filled with blood from interanl bleeding for a couple of reasons. Ended up having to get that drained & then had a petcock installed for a week while the rest slowly drained out. This was actually worse than the heart surgery.
I think that's it for the big ones, who else has tales of woe?
TC
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i've had 3 surgeries:
1. Motorcycle accident resulted in a compound fracture of the right wrist. it was painful and disgusting to look at when it happened. I have 5 titanium screws in my right wrist.
2 & 3. Had two surgeries on my right knee. Tore my miniscus playing basketball and then the mcl playing basketball. This is why i picked up golf, my basketball and softball days are over!
1. Motorcycle accident resulted in a compound fracture of the right wrist. it was painful and disgusting to look at when it happened. I have 5 titanium screws in my right wrist.
2 & 3. Had two surgeries on my right knee. Tore my miniscus playing basketball and then the mcl playing basketball. This is why i picked up golf, my basketball and softball days are over!
Dirt_Guy
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Re: List your surgeries
I had my ACL and meniscus repaired from a football injury in college. I wish I could say it was from the real thing, but it was during an intramural flag football game.
The rest of my clumsy mistakes have happened to heal themselves.
I had my ACL and meniscus repaired from a football injury in college. I wish I could say it was from the real thing, but it was during an intramural flag football game.
The rest of my clumsy mistakes have happened to heal themselves.
thedue
Another Day in Paradise
I've not had any where near your experiance Dyna. The hospital know's your SS number by heart when you walk in I bet.
I had a broken Collar bone and tried to slice my thumb off, but no surgery there, maybe 50 stitches. Then a stroke while they were setting up for my brain surgery. Went in at my crotch, through the heart and into my brain to cut the leads and cotterize, while I was awake. Doc nudged other doc and says "hey, his face dropped". I had no idea until then and couldn't move arms and legs or talk.
The brain surgery was on Halloween in 95 and was like so many cattle through the shute. cut my hair off, drilled three holes and used a skill saw to cut the vee out. I can still feel the 3 holes, lmao. that was a Tuesday and sent me home Saturday AM.
Back to the hospital less than a week later with major blood clots. Couldn't do anything so had Deep Vein Thrombosas ever since.
Hearth cath last year and this crap. Oh yeah the 4 wisdom teeth and kidney stones along with both thumbs broken once, lol at the same time.
cant focus enough to think of anymore, kind of glad!
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I had a broken Collar bone and tried to slice my thumb off, but no surgery there, maybe 50 stitches. Then a stroke while they were setting up for my brain surgery. Went in at my crotch, through the heart and into my brain to cut the leads and cotterize, while I was awake. Doc nudged other doc and says "hey, his face dropped". I had no idea until then and couldn't move arms and legs or talk.
The brain surgery was on Halloween in 95 and was like so many cattle through the shute. cut my hair off, drilled three holes and used a skill saw to cut the vee out. I can still feel the 3 holes, lmao. that was a Tuesday and sent me home Saturday AM.
Back to the hospital less than a week later with major blood clots. Couldn't do anything so had Deep Vein Thrombosas ever since.
Hearth cath last year and this crap. Oh yeah the 4 wisdom teeth and kidney stones along with both thumbs broken once, lol at the same time.
cant focus enough to think of anymore, kind of glad!
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halk
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In 2004 surgery to repair broken vertebrates C6 and C7 due to a fall. Was told by the neurosurgeon that I was very lucky to be walking around.
halk
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I have numbness in my right arm and hand especially in the little finger and the side of my hand. I was told that was something that I would have to live with for life one of the bone fragments almost cut a nerve into that goes to the hand and the little finger. One thing that has helped more than anything I have found is the exercise I am doing now, I go to the gym 4 days week run and work out with resistance weights. Doc says weights are the best thing I can do to rebuild strength on the right side. One other side effect, is strength on the right side it effects my distance in golf but again the workouts is helping a lot in that area.
Spank818
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In High School I was playing goalie for the soccer team. I got my hand on the ball and one of the opposite team's strikers hit the ball and my hand. I lifted my glove and my right pinky was pointing right with my palms facing out. I shattered the bone between my two pinky knuckles and have to have reconstructive surgery and pins inserted. I remember this because it was right before my 18th birthday and I had to take my driver's license test with a cast on my right hand.
Needless to say I can feel when the barometric pressure drops.
Needless to say I can feel when the barometric pressure drops.
TheGasman
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I had a scope done on and all of the cartilage removed from my wrist.
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I had a septoplasty with turbinectomy around 1985 or 86. That's straightening a busted nose (septoplasty) and widening my nostrils (turbinectomy). I could not breathe thru my nose very well and it turns out I broke my nose sometime during my life, best I can figure it was when I played Evel Kneivel on my bicycle and tried to ride up a teeter totter. I drove right off that sucker and landed nose first into the ground. It lasted for a couple of years, but pretty much went back the way it was.
Then in 2003 I had the same thing done but they had really changed the way they did it. Not as invasive and less recovery. No trouble since.
In 2000 I had Lasik surgery.
Then in 2003 I had the same thing done but they had really changed the way they did it. Not as invasive and less recovery. No trouble since.
In 2000 I had Lasik surgery.
C-Tech
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Heart cath 5 years ago to place a stent in my circumflex artery. A month later, they did atherectomy on left femoral to open it up. Then they had to re-do the stent, it was closing due to scar tissue forming. They put in drug eluding stent second time and no problems since.
provisional
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When I was very young I was running from my older brother, turned a corner, and ran my right eye straight into piece of pipe. I all but "cored" my eye out of it's socket. At the time medical facilities in Las Vegas were good, but specialists were not available in the immediate area. I needed a specialist. My mother, and myself were flown by a AF military plane from Nellis AFB to Denver, Colorado where some "specialist" doctor spent a long afternoon sewing various parts of my eye back together. I don't remember any of this at all since I was so young.
When I was in my late teens, I was in an explosion of sorts where glass was involved. I cut my self up pretty well. 800 stitches, and night in the hospital later I was home in my own bed. The really agonizing part of this ordeal was my mother was the head trauma nurse on duty in the ER when the ambulance guys wheeled me in. You can't imagine the thoughts of a mother who's son unexpectively shows up at her ER, literally covered in blood, unconscious.
When I was in my late teens, I was in an explosion of sorts where glass was involved. I cut my self up pretty well. 800 stitches, and night in the hospital later I was home in my own bed. The really agonizing part of this ordeal was my mother was the head trauma nurse on duty in the ER when the ambulance guys wheeled me in. You can't imagine the thoughts of a mother who's son unexpectively shows up at her ER, literally covered in blood, unconscious.
dynarider
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Did you both feel the heart cath was scary? That procedure bothered me more than the actual heart surgery. But then it doesn't help when the Drs & nurses sometimes give you more info than you need.
Like telling you if the plug they put in your femoral artery comes out you will pretty much bleed to death real damn quick. Or I had an IV in my carotid artery in my neck for the heart deal, the person removing needs to know what the hell they are doing or you could supposedly either bleed to death or have a stroke if they screw up.....& of course they are telling you this as they are getting ready to pull it out.
thedue
Another Day in Paradise
It was scary for me, but not as bad this time. This was very similar to what they did before, going up through my heart into the brain. They had a monitor set up so I could watch while the were in there. I watched some, but mostly kept my eye's on the doctors to see if all was well.
Harry Longshanks
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No surgeries, but a bunch of concussions (mountain biking and snowboarding), a few ER visits, and a couple of lost days.
GMDNP1
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I've never had any surgery or a broken bone in my entire life. that's hoping this wrist doesn't ruin that streak. my father and younger brother have had some broken bones and surgeries.
C-Tech
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Funny story...
When they had me in the cath lab, getting me blocked in and prepped, etc., the cath charge nurse came over and asked if I had any questions. I told him I didn't really have any questions, but I did have a request. He asked what it was. I told him that I had been reading up on this procedure and I understood that they sometimes left the patient awake so they could communicate with the surgeon. I told him I did NOT want to be awake and I had no desire to know anything during it. He said not to worry, he would be right back with the happy juice. I remember him saying, you'll feel this in just a few min....... that's it til late that day.
After the first time, the other two were a snap. If they would give me those good drugs again, I'm ready right now.
provisional
Could Care Less
I just remembered a surgery I did not have. I was playing slo-pitch softball as a pitcher. A guy hit a ball to my left side, and as I pivoted to field the ball I popped a hammy. No big deal I thought . Took a couple of weeks off before my return. Same thing happened, as I pivoted left to field the ball, I popped the same hammy again. Ok, still not a big deal I continued to think. A few weeks went by, and I could still feel a little dull pain in the hammy area. My wife kept insisting all this time to go see a doctor. But heck, I could still golf, and hike with no issues so why go to a doctor. I finally take the advice and let my golfing doctor buddy look at it. He sends me to sports medicine muscle doctor guy. He tells me I had severely torn the hamstring, and when it grew back, it grew back some what twisted. The fix was to cut it, and then reattach it correctly. Healing time would be in the 8-12 month range. I declined the fix, and I don't play softball anymore. 
cauley
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2 for me
2 for me
Well, sort of three, if you count removing pins as another surgery. Nothing uber-serious, though.
- Insertion of screws to fix metatarsal broken playing ultimate frisbee (due to ignored/unknown stress fracture incurred doing lots of runnning and biking). The Portland airport hallways are long. Especially if you're hopping on one leg. And even more so if the only bar in the airport is closed at the time.
- 8+ hour surgery to fix bones around the wrist pulverized playing basketball, when a buddy ducked under my legs to keep me from blocking his shot.
The one I haven't (yet?) had... whatever is torn in my shoulder, so that I can't sleep on my right side or throw a baseball for more than 10 minutes. Oh, and countless stitches. I was somewhat reckless as a kid.
2 for me
Well, sort of three, if you count removing pins as another surgery. Nothing uber-serious, though.
- Insertion of screws to fix metatarsal broken playing ultimate frisbee (due to ignored/unknown stress fracture incurred doing lots of runnning and biking). The Portland airport hallways are long. Especially if you're hopping on one leg. And even more so if the only bar in the airport is closed at the time.
- 8+ hour surgery to fix bones around the wrist pulverized playing basketball, when a buddy ducked under my legs to keep me from blocking his shot.
The one I haven't (yet?) had... whatever is torn in my shoulder, so that I can't sleep on my right side or throw a baseball for more than 10 minutes. Oh, and countless stitches. I was somewhat reckless as a kid.