surgery - post 309
17 years ago
General
Have you ever had to go under the knife? I know someone that is going to have to go have surgery and it got me thinking... I've never had to get cut. Well... I had to have my large toenail removed when I was about 13 because I had an ingrown toenail that just kept getting worse and worse. I also had to be put out to have teeth removed when I got braces, but that's it. Nothing major... so far.
Has anyone out there had to have surgery before? Any stories to go along with the experience?
Has anyone out there had to have surgery before? Any stories to go along with the experience?
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The big lesson I learned from it? Morphine can cause some freakin' weird hallucinations,
what i had done can be seen here.. it is too much to write out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinal_fusion
and the reason that i needed the surgery was scoliosis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoliosis
i spent 6 full days in the hospital, and while there had to learn how to walk again with extra weight in my back.
i still have pain to this day, but without the surgery i would have suffocated to death.
1. Dog bite. Chewedright in the center of my right hand. Got it opened and cleaned out. Was freaky to see your bones as they moving as i moved a finger - all yellow from blood, not ghostly white. Have the scar for it to the rest of my life about the size of the pinky finger's nail. Also got Tetanus injection.
2. Stepped into rusty nail. It didn1t hurt though: I stepped into nails all my life, this one was special because it was rusty. Again: Got it opened and cleaned out. Got a pain killing injection to the center of my feat...wasn't funny at all. Also got Tetanus injection.
3. Rust dirt removed from eyeball with surgical needles. At first i was scared like hell. Needles gonna penetrate my eyeball?? No biggie anymore. Didn't felt a thing. The eyeball isn't all that sensitive, and it was like just touching them, I got better no vision loss or anything. :D
Nothing else from under the knives files.