Surgery thread

[Jethro!]

I'm currently laid up after a knee operation which has left me rather incapacitated and bored.
As much as Bigfooty has entertained me over the last few days it is not enough to keep the mind ticking over. The dvd player and X-box have also had a thrashing.

What are some ways people pass the time whilst recovering?

More interestingly, What have people's experiences of surgery been? What types of surgery have people had?
I myself have had numerous foot reconstructions following a hideous motorcycle accident. Have also had an acl reconstruction and knee clean outs.
Inb4 sex change yada yada yada

 

[Gough]

Spent nine days in hospital over Christmas 2006 with a ruptured appendix. I recommend morphine, I vaguely remember watching Andrew Symonds' century in the Melbourne Test through a rather agreeable opiate haze.

 

[Jethro!]

Spent nine days in hospital over Christmas 2006 with a ruptured appendix. I recommend morphine, I vaguely remember watching Andrew Symonds' century in the Melbourne Test through a rather agreeable opiate haze.

I've found the recovery from the general anaesthetic has been horrendous this time. A knee operation is only a day procedure so only got sent home with panadeine forte. Didn't get any oxycodone this time.
Appendix surgery sounds pretty horrendous.

 

[The Passenger]

come end of footy season, i gotta get surgery for a torn tendon in my finger from about 3 months ago. i'm pretty sure i'll survive but hopefully i can convince them to give me some sort of opiates.

if i was laid up i would take the time to start really working on my chess skills. i imagine ten days should be enough for grandmaster?

 

[Mooster7]

I've never had a surgery, a broken bone or needed stiched up. But if i did have some knee surgery done, I'd spend some of my time learning how to walk on crutches. Barring that, and being completely laid up, I'd drink loads of beer and masturbate a lot.

Get well!

 

[Igloo]

Heart/lung bypass.
Sternotomy.
ECMO (Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation).
Emergency surgery for internal bleeding.
Tracheostomy because they couldn't do it while I was awake and just in the room for some reason.


And +1 for Morphine. So good.

 

[Gough]

Heart/lung bypass.
Sternotomy.
ECMO (Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation).
Emergency surgery for internal bleeding.
Tracheostomy because they couldn't do it while I was awake and just in the room for some reason.


And +1 for Morphine. So good.

Clubhouse leader.

 

[The Passenger]

Clubhouse leader.

i cant even pronounce most of those things.

it's just occurred to me i've never been sent unconscious by someone qualified to make people unconscious. that disappoints me. i, on the other hand, have sent myself unconscious a fairly unhealthy amounts of times.

 

[Igloo]

Clubhouse leader.

There's someone around here that bests me, but I can't remember who . They mentioned it in another thread a while ago.

 

[Igloo]

it's just occurred to me i've never been sent unconscious by someone qualified to make people unconscious. that disappoints me. i, on the other hand, have sent myself unconscious a fairly unhealthy amounts of times.

It makes for some fun times. You're missing out.

 

[Colin D'Cops]

Got all 4 wisdom teeth out a couple of years ago.

Other than that...

 

[Shell]

Got all 4 wisdom teeth out a couple of years ago.

Other than that...

Same, just replace "couple" with "ten" for me.

horrible procedure. Glad the ****ers dont grow back.

 

[Tulip]

Two broken arms, a gum-digging operation, tonsilectomy are all i remember.

 

[Colin D'Cops]

...tonsilectomy are all i remember.

Sister is currently feeling the effects of this, showing no real signs of getting better yet. About a week after it now.

Any handy tips?

 

[Igloo]

a gum-digging operation

This sent a shiver down my spine . Surely you could have worded it better?!

 

[Tulip]

Sister is currently feeling the effects of this, showing no real signs of getting better yet. About a week after it now.

Any handy tips?

I was quite young (8 or 9), but both my siblings have had theirs more recently.

Only advice I have is to keep re-watching shite tv shows and wait or that day when you wake up and half the pain's gone. Will likely coincide with the day that the film, or whatever it's called, that has developed on the back of your throat starts to come apart. Just get rid of it down the sink. Once that day comes, the pain will go quickly.

Most importantly, however, is that she drinks heaps of orange juice. Even when it becomes unpleasant to do so. Not that supermarket bottled just juice stuff, fresh refrigerated OJ like Nudie.

 

[Tulip]

This sent a shiver down my spine . Surely you could have worded it better?!

They literally drilled into my gum, I'm not really sure what the correct medical terminology is.

Was a lot easier than a heart/liver bypass, I imagine!

 

[Igloo]

They literally drilled into my gum, I'm not really sure what the correct medical terminology is.

Was a lot easier than a heart/liver bypass, I imagine!

That's like my worst nightmare. Gives me the heebee-jeebees .

Heart/lung*

 

[Colin D'Cops]

Cheers for that, will get to it (orange juice).

 

[Tulip]

Cheers for that, will get to it (orange juice).

Also a good tip for regular sore throats. Makes them go away in double time. The vitamin C goes to town.

 

[Colin D'Cops]

Yeah I don't mind oranges, one of my fave fruits.

 

[Hand]

Tympanostomy tube insertion
Ruptured Appendix (scary stuff)
Myringoplasty
Knee Arthroscopy

 

[DrVanNostrand]

Only ever been to hospital when I had my tonsils out as a kid. Was awesome, unlimited ice-cream and the ward was pretty empty so I had the N64 and Sega all to myself, bitches. Diddy Kong Racing ftw. Oh, and I guess I'm no longer a chance of swallowing non-essential organs in my sleep (or something similar), so win/win.

Over the last 15 years I have slowly plotted revenge against the relatives that didn't visit me. I'm playing the end game mofos.

 

[Jethro!]

Got all 4 wisdom teeth out a couple of years ago.

Other than that...

I have to have that done in a few weeks too. The wisdom teeth thing, not the penis enlargement thing (props on the picture). Though it wouldn't be bad if they could do both.
What was your experience of that like? From most reports it sounds much more painful than the knee operations so I'm really not looking forward to it. It seems most of these medical things always occur in an intense burst.

 

[Upgrayedd]

Had a few


I love when they tell you to count to 20, I always try to last the count.

last time i went "HA! counted to 20!" and the nurse replied "Do it backwards now" Confused the hell out of me then woke up 3 hours later