And it shows just how lame a massassian I really am since I didn't ask for vibes or mention a damn thing before hand. *shrug*

Not that it was heavy surgery. I had an Inguinal Hernia (I'm not going to explain because I don't want to, look it up. God gave us Google for a reason. =P) on my left side corrected. Been there for years (and I do, seriously, mean YEARS. 6+) and just recently started getting worse. Don't even ask how I got it in the first place, I couldn't even tell you.

Anyways, most entertaining day. I don't want to do it again. Ever.

Spent 2 hours laying in a bed waiting for my turn to have the procedure done (I apparently was 4th in line) with an IV in my hand (those things kinda suck, just less so that I thought they would). Eventually head out to the lobby of the surgery ward where I got my painkillers. The doc for that was sweet. She walks up and goes over my chart, then pulls out the syrenge with the drugs and goes, "And now you're going to feel roughly what it's like to be drunk, minus the throwing up and the hangover." Should probably mention at this point that I'm almost 20 and I don't drink. At all. I hate alcohol. So the drugs were fun. I was happy and relaxed and everything looked rather fuzzy for about 15 minutes before I finally go to head into the OR. Moved myself to the table for them, got wired up, then managed to break a record. As they were putting me under the told me to start counting. Apparently I made it up to 35 before I stopped, thought I can't remember counting past 20, and even that is a haze. Most people make it to 20 and then go out.

Surgery was all of 30 minutes and a success. And then I got to spend the next 2 hours sleeping off the anesthesia. Fun stuff that. They woke me up and I was seeing double for about 10 minutes. There was a digtal clock in front of me and it took me a good 5 minutes to figure out there were only 3 digits there, and it WAS a clock and not something else. Spent another 30 or 45 minutes pulling out of that and putting down some liquids before they let me move off the bed, another fun challenge, seeing as part of my left side was numb, and my legs didn't really want to work. But all was well, managed to get dressed again, had fun with the nurses talking about Napoleon Dynamite and Pulp Ficition. Found out one of them was pregnant and giving her kid the same name as mine (Ian). Then I got the royal hospital treatment. Took a wheelchair from the 5th floor down to ground level so my mom could pick me up, and I came home, where I promptly had some toast and then passed out for another 2 hours.

Yeah. Fun day. Now if only my throat would stop hurting from their damn breathing tube....

Anyone else have lots of fun today?

Well my mom a couple of years ago had a trombosis and she had to be hospitalized, and it was kinda fun sticking with her and watching it all, but painful as well..

I'm happy to hear your all right and good, nice to still have you.

Yeah, I did have lots of fun. Woke up around 11, went outside and skimmed a Game Informer, sprayed the **** out of my brother with a hose/nozzle attachment we got yesterday to clear off the sidewalk. I came back inside played Garry's mod for a bit after my mom played Oblivion for a couple hours (yes, my mom started Oblivion last night). Went outside, landed 2 or 3 front flips, came inside, sitting here now chilling out to music and watching my camp DVD with all the pictures on it.

My mom had a knee replaced two months ago.

I am preparing for Senior Pictures.

Ha! I laugh at thee.

Seriously though, how is that bad? Dunno about where you live, but here it was a big deal over nothing. They take several yearbook pictures (for us it was in a tux cover thingie) one of which you choose when you get proofs, then do a few "stylized" shots, most of which suck, because they're in a hurry to get done and tell you to do stupid things, thus making you look goofy.

Oh and you choose those from proofs too.

surgery scares me... i hope i NEVER need it for anything. If so, I'd better be knocked out before i get there.

Me:

tonsils out at age 5 - anesthesia.
operation to place metal rods in my wrist at age 8 - anesthesia
appendix out at age 14 - anesthesia
wisdom teeth out at age 19 - laughing gas

Yeah, I've had my fair share.

Hey look, a surgery thread!

I won't bother going into details about mine, there's already a thread on that :p

As far as the 35 second record or whatever, it totally depends on how fast they are giving you the drugs. If they really wanted, they could have you out cold in 5 seconds flat :p

For example, when they went to gas me last time, they told me to count to 10. 10 came around, and nothing was happening... then they realized the gas wasn't on. 3 seconds later, I was gone.

I'm probably having a nasty surgery later this year.

Yay for anesthetics! I miss smelling that gas.

I've had some fluid drained from my hip once. I don't think that really counts as surgery, though.

I had a pretty good day yesterday, though. Finished work early, had the rest of the day to myself, had a few drinks with my friend for her birthday, came home and slept until about an hour ago.

I had a plate and screws put over my broken arm, when I woke up from the anastesia, I vomited for like 10 minutes. It was awesome.

I had surgery for something when I was but a wee tike. They also poked around my eyes. I can't remember why. Hell, the only thing I can remember is looking up past a doorframe for some reason.

It took something like 8 seconds for me. It was awesome. Better to experience it first hand than only in movies. The wake up was also bizarre: A minute or two awake with no idea what was going on, then back to sleep and again wake up after a short while, gradually getting my wits back.


I didn't like it either. It was bothersome to have a big needle stuck inside my hand, with a tube running from it to the bag of painkillers.

Hospitals scare the crap out of me. My brother was born with... something or other. It means he didn't have one of his heart valves. That means every several years he has to have really dangerous open-heart surgeries. He just had (hopefully) his last one a couple days before Christmas. That was a bummer in all sorts of ways.

But yeah, I've never even broken an arm fully.

I did have a pretty good day yesterday. Gaming and IRC for the win.

[QUOTE=Cool Matty]Hey look, a surgery thread!

I won't bother going into details about mine, there's already a thread on that :p

As far as the 35 second record or whatever, it totally depends on how fast they are giving you the drugs. If they really wanted, they could have you out cold in 5 seconds flat :p

For example, when they went to gas me last time, they told me to count to 10. 10 came around, and nothing was happening... then they realized the gas wasn't on. 3 seconds later, I was gone.[/QUOTE]
Oh I realize that. But since it was the same group of doctors/surgeons/etc. that had done the previous operations for the same condition that day, I'm going to assume how fast the drugs were being given was more or less consistent.

Forgot to mention it yesterday, but in addition to the general anesthesia I apparently got a REALLY good local one to kill the pain after surgery. That lasted WELL into last night and this morning. Finally mostly wore completely off around 6 am, and now it hurts to do anything more than sit or lay down. I have some dirivitive of codine in the form of pills I can take to help with that, I'm just hoping I don't get any of the nasty side effects mentioned, and I don't have an allegric reaction. My mom and grandmother both have to stay away from codine as it gives them hives. Personally though, I'd just as soon have whatever he gave me yesterday shot back into that general area. It still hurt a bit, but at least it was a bit easier to move around.