Well, it's gone

[BugI02]

Thanks everyone. You guys are good people. And that's not the dope talking

I think they sell those to China as an epicurean delicacy. Did you get the Doc to split the windfall?

Speedy recovery, Woob

 

[Nazgul]

Hope you recover quickly.

My appendix burst about 10 years ago. The pain was all they said it was. The surgeon was very young but great. I was sick foe about 2 months recovering.

Had sinus surgery, 3 hernias and the appendix. General Anesthesia never really bothered me. Seemed to wake up slow but no nausea.

Get well.

Don

 

[Dead Duck]

See if they'll let you take it home in a specimen jar.
Just keep it on the mantel as a conversation piece or for your kids show and tell.

 

[Woobie]

Hope you recover quickly.

My appendix burst about 10 years ago. The pain was all they said it was. The surgeon was very young but great. I was sick foe about 2 months recovering.

Had sinus surgery, 3 hernias and the appendix. General Anesthesia never really bothered me. Seemed to wake up slow but no nausea.

Get well.

Don

I've always had a lot of abdominal pain. It's one of the family heirlooms that I've been blessed with. This wasn't considerably worse, but it was just different. That's what kind of clued me in on something being amiss. So mine was pretty severely inflamed, but not very infected. In fact, my white cells weren't even elevated. Most likely, I'll be going home tomorrow, pending results from a blood test in the morning. So, really I've got it as good as you can get it, if you have to get it. I can imagine that if you got to the point of it bursting, that it would be excruciating. I've known two people that have done it, and they spent a month in the hospital. I don't have time for all that, lol.

 

[Woobie]

Well, now you have to put all your supplementary information into the body of the text.

General anesthesia has started making me hallucinate for days after. Last time I came out from it I was in a foul mood, referring to the medical personnel as peasants, and threatening beheadings and burnings at the stake. I kept thinking they'd set my legs up with remote control and replaced them with wheels. I can't even describe what I thought they'd done to my digestive plumbing.

Your digestive plumbing? Is that where the Evilwrench name originated?

Man, that sounds horrible! I feel bad for you. I know I didn't really enjoy coming to, but it wasn't too bad. Certainly nothing like the horror you experienced. But I was also on a lower dose of narcotics due to the nerve block.

 

[Woobie]

See if they'll let you take it home in a specimen jar.
Just keep it on the mantel as a conversation piece or for your kids show and tell.

I'll dehydrate it in a bag of uncoiled rice and throw it in my WALLET!

 

[Woobie]

Thanks for the well wishes, guys. And for saving me from boredom.

 

[Dead Duck]

I'll dehydrate it in a bag of uncoiled rice and throw it in my WALLET!

Organ Jerky. Interesting......

 

[Hoosierdood]

When I had carpal tunnel surgery, I went under general anesthesia. I woke up and was the nicest person you have ever met. Kept saying Thank You to everyone I saw and telling them they did a GREAT job! It felt like I was in a state of euphoria. Then as my wife drove me home about 2 hours later, she had to pull over so I could throw up on the side of the road.

When I went to have the second wrist done, I told them it made me sick and they gave me some other stuff in the IV. Still woke up in a state of euphoria, but I didnt get sick that time.

Got home and took one Vicodin and hated it. Felt dizzy/drunk for 2 days. Thats the first and last time I take Vicodin.

 

[OutdoorDad]

There are many things worse than general anesthesia.

One of them is surgery WITHOUT general anesthesia.

Glad you are on the mend.

 

[Woobie]

There are many things worse than general anesthesia.

One of them is surgery WITHOUT general anesthesia.

Glad you are on the mend.

Ha! Wouldn't that be a joy? Actually, when churchmouse had his gall bladder removed, they just hit him in the head really hard every time he started to wake up. But you can't expect too much in the Iron Age.

 

[Ddillard]

Glad all went well. INGO on and happy healing.

 

[OutdoorDad]

Ha! Wouldn't that be a joy? Actually, when churchmouse had his gall bladder removed, they just hit him in the head really hard every time he started to wake up. But you can't expect too much in the Iron Age.

I have met Churchmouse.

It may have have been the Bronze Age.

 

[Mr Evilwrench]

Your digestive plumbing? Is that where the Evilwrench name originated?

Man, that sounds horrible! I feel bad for you. I know I didn't really enjoy coming to, but it wasn't too bad. Certainly nothing like the horror you experienced. But I was also on a lower dose of narcotics due to the nerve block.

You'd have to remember the old GM service commercials:

[video=youtube;FgD9rzHQw3M]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgD9rzHQw3M[/video]

I was on oxy from the surgeon, which was an upgrade over the hydrocodone I took for three months before the surgery. They wouldn't give me any in my room because they thought I was asleep. I didn't get any sleep for three days, and I was so tired I couldn't keep my eyes open. That was the worst part. I was raising hell in the room where I woke up because I was being mugged; they seemed to be trying systematically to perforate all my veins. They were onto the ones in my neck. After a few weeks of my mom tweezing the oxy to me like it was on a stopwatch because she was afraid I'd wind up face down in a gutter, I stopped taking them. I don't have any intoxicating effects from the stuff, I just need nukes for pain when I have it.

 

[BigBoxaJunk]

I woke up and was the nicest person you have ever met. Kept saying Thank You to everyone I saw and telling them they did a GREAT job!

I had a surgery on my hand to repair a severed tendon on my thumb. They did the epidural block to deaden my entire arm, and then just sedated me. Apparently, I talked and talked throughout the surgery. It was like I could listen to myself talk, but like it wasn't me talking. At one point, I asked the surgeon if I'd be able to play the piano afterwards and he just laughed and said "yeah, I've heard that one before". When I was in recovery, and came around from the sedative, I was pretty embarrassed at babbling through the entire thing, but the nurse said lot's of people do that when they get that sedative.

 

[Dead Duck]

I had a surgery on my hand to repair a severed tendon on my thumb. They did the epidural block to deaden my entire arm, and then just sedated me. Apparently, I talked and talked throughout the surgery. It was like I could listen to myself talk, but like it wasn't me talking. At one point, I asked the surgeon if I'd be able to play the piano afterwards and he just laughed and said "yeah, I've heard that one before". When I was in recovery, and came around from the sedative, I was pretty embarrassed at babbling through the entire thing, but the nurse said lot's of people do that when they get that sedative.

Do you even play piano?

 

[Woobie]

You'd have to remember the old GM service commercials:

[video=youtube;FgD9rzHQw3M]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgD9rzHQw3M[/video]

I was on oxy from the surgeon, which was an upgrade over the hydrocodone I took for three months before the surgery. They wouldn't give me any in my room because they thought I was asleep. I didn't get any sleep for three days, and I was so tired I couldn't keep my eyes open. That was the worst part. I was raising hell in the room where I woke up because I was being mugged; they seemed to be trying systematically to perforate all my veins. They were onto the ones in my neck. After a few weeks of my mom tweezing the oxy to me like it was on a stopwatch because she was afraid I'd wind up face down in a gutter, I stopped taking them. I don't have any intoxicating effects from the stuff, I just need nukes for pain when I have it.

Ah, Mr. Goodwrench


Man, that sounds like a terrible experience. I can see why, even if your pain had been under control, you wouldn't have been getting any sleep. I gave up trying to sleep in the bed and moved myself to a chair. I'm 34, have normal blood pressure and in generally very good health. Do I really need to be shoved around every 3 minutes and listen to an air compressor all night? If rest is important for recovery, they certainly do their best to make sure you don't get any. Whoever decided that everyone should get one of these beds should be drug out into the street and shot.

 

[Nazgul]

Got home and took one Vicodin and hated it. Felt dizzy/drunk for 2 days. Thats the first and last time I take Vicodin.

Turns out I can't take Morphine, have hallucinations. I have a good time, but the people around me say it is wild.....

Vicodin is fine stuff. Never having used any drugs other than surgery, it worked really well for me. Felt like floating in a warm bath.

Don

 

[Woobie]

Turns out I can't take Morphine, have hallucinations. I have a good time, but the people around me say it is wild.....

Vicodin is fine stuff. Never having used any drugs other than surgery, it worked really well for me. Felt like floating in a warm bath.

Don

They offered Morphine, but so far I've been managing on Norco and Toradol. The Toradol is slower, but surer since it is an anti inflammatory.

My brother had morphine when his lung collapsed, and he said it was pretty amazing. But he got a little paranoid when he was on it, too.

 

[Woobie]

Well I'm home. The whole process was less than 36 hours. Now I've got to stay home from work all week. SWMBO will likely lose patience with that program by day 3.

In other news, how am I going to carry my Shield? In the position formerly known as Appendix?