How Many Surgeries Have You Had?

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

I just can't imagine being knocked out and letting a near stranger cut me open.

I was there when my wife woke up from the boob job.. She didn't know where she was for hours. I would hate to be in that condition.

 

[AuroraSurrealis]

Only surgery I had was for my acromegaly. Had a tumor on my pituitary gland. Has a metal thing shoved up my nose. I was unconscious of course. Last I was measured was in high school at 6'10". They said I could grow a few more inches but I haven't let my doctors measure me since then, about 14 years.

I’m going to have same kind of surgery in a month, though my tumor is secreting only thyrotropine. It’s a first surgical operation for me and it makes me bit anxious time to time. Several people have told me that patients recover usually quickly after endoscopic pituitary operation.

 

[El Capitán]

I’m going to have same kind of surgery in a month, though my tumor is secreting only thyrotropine. It’s a first surgical operation for me and it makes me bit anxious time to time. Several people have told me that patients recover usually quickly after endoscopic pituitary operation.

Yeah it really isn't that bad. I was lifting heavy weights in a month.

 

[edger]

I'm curious now, and feel free to tell me to get stuffed @edger, but I'm guessing you have worked a hard job or something to have both hips replaced plus the crushed discs.

So like, where you a piano mover, stone mason, professional rugby player, stevedore, and/or rodeo clown?

No disrespect intended, I'm genuinely curious - but if I'm being nosy just tell me where to go.

I was a desk jockey(banking in NYC,finally) until the age of 40 when a dear friend rescued me and I joined him in Connecticut doing remodeling, stone work(New England abounds with beautiful dry stone walls).
Coming to hard labor at that age probably caused the damage.
Previously I was an actor/stage manager so .......
You needn't get stuffed on my account

 

[cosmicfolklore]

When I boxed, I had to have the metacarpals set and pinned several times (that is in your hands), and my nose now has a prosthetic bridge from being flattened so many times. I had to have my hip reset after falling off a cliff in a mountain biking accident. Then the normal stuff, appendix, tonsils, , etc... Oh, and colon surgery after another Mt Bike accident, where the damn seat tried to prison rape me on another fall. Nowadays, I stick to my touring bike.
Stiches and other broke bones, but I didn't have actual surgeries for those.

 

[crawdad]

Pilonidal cyst below tailbone, tonsils removed, Osgood-Schatters both knees, 3.4 oz shrapnel removed, Quadruple bypass, perforated appendix, stent.

 

[kcghost]

I only had surgery once. A fairly simple rhinoplasty to fix a deviated septum.They take patients who had this surgery to the pediatric ward after it is over. About half the patients go home the same day and the other half stay over one day. Anyway they wheel me in and I am in room with a chronic whiner. And this guy goes on and on about being in pain and he needs pain pills. They tell he has to wait two more hours before he can receive more. Well I am hurting too but I figure I'll have to man up because I came in after this guy. He continued to whine for the next couple of hours about everything on the planet. So finally the nurse comes over to me to see how I'm doing. I ask her when I am scheduled to get some pain medication. She looks at my chart and says,"Oh, my gosh, we didn't give you any. I'll be right back."
Mean while, Ol' Buttlick is still complaining about everything on earth.
They come back with my medication. I take the pills. They go back to Ol' Buttlick and ask him if he is going to stay overnight or go home. "I can't go home I'm in pain and I need medical assistance" he says. Now I had thought the same and I was going to elect to stay in hospital overnight but when I heard that I said to my wife "Oh, hell no, get me out of here". And we left.
That was 30 some years ago and I have been to the hospital since.

 

[Brendan]

I was a desk jockey(banking in NYC,finally) until the age of 40 when a dear friend rescued me and I joined him in Connecticut doing remodeling, stone work(New England abounds with beautiful dry stone walls).
Coming to hard labor at that age probably caused the damage.
Previously I was an actor/stage manager so .......
You needn't get stuffed on my account

No worries, thanks for the reply ?
I had a feeling stone work of some kind was going to pop up - I wonder about doing it myself one day, but it obviously takes a heavy toll.
Plus I'm 35, so almost 40.
I'm no spring chicken anymore!

Just to keep on track, I've yet to have any surgeries myself, but that may change soon (it starts with a V)

 

[LotusEater]

Oral surgery for impacted wisdom teeth.
Crushed disc between lumbar 4&5.
Radical prostatectomy for cancer.
Two hip replacements.

I’m still here!

Dang!

 

[LotusEater]

Pilonidal cyst below tailbone, tonsils removed, Osgood-Schatters both knees, 3.4 oz shrapnel removed, Quadruple bypass, perforated appendix, stent.

I’m going in this morning for the results of my first echocardiogram. BP is ridiculously high and the doc thinks I probably had a heartache recently- although I feel fine.
I hope you are doing well after the quadruple bypass and I hope I won’t be needing a similar procedure

 

[cigrmaster]

I forgot I also had to have 2 nose surgeries one from a baseball and one from the 1980's if you catch my drift.

 

[Brendan]

Yep, I catch your drift.


You broke it in a break dance battle.

 

[irishearl]

I just can't imagine being knocked out and letting a near stranger cut me open.

I was there when my wife woke up from the boob job.. She didn't know where she was for hours. I would hate to be in that condition.

When I had triple by-pass 9 years ago, 1 or more grafts sprung a leak and they returned me to surgery 4 hours after I left it. Used 16 units of blood. I became conscious 2 days later in the ICU but didn't know who I was for a day or so later.

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

When I had triple by-pass 9 years ago, 1 or more grafts sprung a leak and they returned me to surgery 4 hours after I left it. Used 16 units of blood. I became conscious 2 days later in the ICU but didn't know who I was for a day or so later.

That's scary stuff.

 

[Ahi Ka]

Just to keep on track, I've yet to have any surgeries myself, but that may change soon (it starts with a V)

Good on ya mate, finally getting that sex change ?

 

[Brendan]

Good on ya mate, finally getting that sex change ?

Wait, what?

No, not at all...



Well I really set myself up there ?