Double hernia surgery...

[Engineer]

April 10th.

Yay me! :barf;

(Hopefully, I'll still be employeed to have insurance - if not, COBRA it is).

That is all.

 

[ethebubbeth]

I had a double hernia repair... when I was 18 months old. Needles to say, I don't remember it too well .

Good luck with your surgery.

 

[BoomerD]

Ouch...fuck-dammit...that hurts!

Good luck...yer gonna need it!

 

[Engineer]

Originally posted by: BoomerD
Ouch...fuck-dammit...that hurts!

Good luck...yer gonna need it!

Sort of got the same impression when he told me that there will be a drip tube installed for a few days to allow local anastetic to be dripped onto the area. Ouch!

 

[RKS]

Originally posted by: ethebubbeth
I had a double hernia repair... when I was 18 months old. Needles to say, I don't remember it too well .

Good luck with your surgery.

So did my son but he got better.

good luck OP, especially if you have to pay for COBRA

 

[FelixDeCat]

I hope your surgery goes well and youre still employed.

Pray you dont have to go on COBRA. My payments were $579.80 per month, just for myself. And I paid six months worth.

 

[Engineer]

Originally posted by: RKS

Originally posted by: ethebubbeth
I had a double hernia repair... when I was 18 months old. Needles to say, I don't remember it too well .

Good luck with your surgery.

So did my son but he got better.

good luck OP, especially if you have to pay for COBRA

Originally posted by: FelixDeKat
I hope your surgery goes well and youre still employed.

Pray you dont have to go on COBRA. My payments were $579.80 per month, just for myself. And I paid six months worth.

The new stimulus bill will pick up 65% of my COBRA payments for 9 months, if it comes to that. I hope that I won't need to do it, but you never know.

 

[JC]

Youch....I had one (strangulated) when I was an infant, glad I don't remember that one! Second one came along 9 years later, got it early.

Hope you recover quickly!

 

[rudeguy]

I'm sure you will do fine. I am also sure that its going to hurt like a bitch, but just think about it. You now have a trump card if your wife ever plays the childbirth card!

Best of wishes. Please post when the date gets close, I'll put you in my prayers.

 

[funkymatt]

oh it's going to hurt. I had bi-lateral involuntary hernia surgery when I was 18. do you have a single level home? I wasn't able to climb stairs for 2 or 3 days and slept on the sofa bed. grab a bunch of movies you've been meaning to watch but haven't watched yet.

 

[troytime]

where is it?

i had hernia surgery TWICE for one near my belly button.
the first time yielded a 6 inch incision, but apparently 'didn't take'
2nd time they used a bunch of little incisions and scopes and stuff (also used a mesh instead of stitches to fix hernia)

both times i sweet talked them into letting me go home the same day
and both times i was stuck on the couch for a week

the absolute WORST thing about the recovery is the pain meds constipate you, and your abdomen muscles are cut up so its hard to 'push' when its turd-time.

 

[Corporate Thug]

my dad got that done recently, took him a solid 2 months to walk properly.

 

[BoomerD]

Originally posted by: FelixDeKat
I hope your surgery goes well and youre still employed.

Pray you dont have to go on COBRA. My payments were $579.80 per month, just for myself. And I paid six months worth.

That's cheap...when my insurance ran out after I got hurt on the job, my COBRA through my union was $1300 per month...in 2004.

 

[eplebnista]

Hope everything goes smoothly and recovery is quick!

 

[Engineer]

You guys are making me nervous, lol.

I've had my gallbladder taken out but it was laproscopic (spell?) with 4 smaller incisions. Hurt like hell for a few days and then just became sore. I'm not sure that this won't hurt more as the 3 inch incision is so much bigger than the smaller cuts of the gallbladder surgery.

 

[Engineer]

Less than 24 hours to go....ugh. Can't wait to get this over with!

 

[scott916]

I had a single hernia operated on in HS. My incision was a little more than 4". I had to stay in bed for the first day or so, but after that I could get up and walk around as long as I hunched my back and stayed on the motrin and vicodin. It's not so bad. If you've never had surgery before, you won't remember a damn thing after being wheeled into the room and before waking up.

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

what does a hernia feel like?

 

[scott916]

Originally posted by: MikeyIs4Dcats
what does a hernia feel like?

Mine was a large painless lump protruding from right above and to the left of my bladder, about the size of half an orange under your skin. It happened when I was weight lifting.

 

[Chunkee]

good luck..i have surgery tomorrow also...having a cervical disc removed and a prosthetic put in...eeesh

 

[Engineer]

Originally posted by: scott916

Originally posted by: MikeyIs4Dcats
what does a hernia feel like?

Mine was a large painless lump protruding from right above and to the left of my bladder, about the size of half an orange under your skin. It happened when I was weight lifting.

Not necessarily painless. Mine appeared so fast (muscle tearing) that it burns at times. Also, when pushing it back in, there is a small amount of pain. I decided because of the pace at which it is growing (and the possibility that I may lose my job and insurance) that it was time to get it fixed (I have a small one in my naval that needs to be fixed too).

The doctor said that he would leave a small tube outside of the cut that I could drip anesthetic into when it hurt so the local should help the pain.

 

[Engineer]

Originally posted by: Chunkee
good luck..i have surgery tomorrow also...having a cervical disc removed and a prosthetic put in...eeesh

Ouch. Good luck and hope all goes well.

 

[Engineer]

Off to the surgery center I go. See you guys in a few days (hopefully, lol).

 

[Leros]

Good luck

 

[Auggie]

Good luck, dude! Go get better!