Surgery is annoying...
Not so much during surgery… because you sleep. Not so much right after surgery, because you are still completely numb. But the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th days after… completely sucks, with or without painkillers.
Now, 10 days later (had surgery on my knee) it is just ANNOYING. I have to walk with crutches, can’t really sit down for more than 4 minutes without having to lay down. IT blowsssss.
But it is alllll worth it. I get to park in handicap spaces for 3 months. And boom goes the dynamite. Oh yeah, that and I will have a good knee again hopefully in about 6 months (rehab is gonna suck ass, but hey, maybe I will lose some weight in the process).
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Damn, this brings up bad memories of when I had to have a screw put in my ankle and a bunch of wire. They said they’d take it out after 2 years if it bothered me. I didn’t want to go through that again if I didn’t have to, so it’s still in there.
Oy. I have never had any sort of surgery ever. Not even wisdom teeth. As such, I’ve developed quite a complex about my internals. I fear them.
For me the anesthesia has always been the worst part of surgery. I have a pretty high pain threshold, but just the queasiness and nausea that I get after waking up is just horrible.
i can’t wait to have kids and be totally fucked up on drugs and bleeding everywhere. and the morning sickness – OH, THE MORNING SICKNESS.
joy.
i’ve only been knocked out once, and it was during non-invasive outpatient surgery. i stayed out for like three hours longer than i was supposed to and barfed when i woke up. then went home and slept for another six hours. no pain. just a scary incident a few days later that nobody warned me about.
oh man i really hate barfing.
maggie said:oh man i really hate barfing.
me, too. it saps all of my energy.
about two hours into having a stomach virus i start crying.
I’m going to share a disgusting story, so stop reading now if that’s not your thing:
You’ve been warned.
When I was 23 I had to surgeries in the same year. Early in the year I had my wisdom teeth removed. All four removed and they knocked me out. When I woke up I was feeling really queasy and signalled to the nurse that I was going to puke. She handed me a dixie cup. When I shot her a distinctly “What the fuck?!?!!?” look, she explained that because of the whole “Don’t eat before surgery” thing, that I didn’t have anything in my stomach so had nothing to puke up. So I just ended up sitting there dry heaving over a flowery dixie cup.
Cut to 6 months or so later and I had to get some polyps removed from my sinuses. They knocked me out and went up there with a laser and started cutting and zapping and whatever. So I wake up from that in the recovery room. I start feeling queasy again. But I remembered the last time when I was told that because of the anesthesia I didn’t have anything in my stomach to puke up. So I figured I would let out some dry heaves like I did last time. What I neglected to realize and what I wasn’t told that with this surgery there was copious amounts of bleeding in my sinuses, down my throat, and….yes into my stomach. So I let out one massive heave and…..blood….all over everything coming out of what seemed like every opening in my cranium. This freaked me out and confused me so I started moving around and continued to heave out in every direction what seemed like gallons of blood. The nurse walked in and looked around and said very calmly. “I guess they didn’t tell you that you end up swallowing a lot of blood during this surgery.”
No. Thank you, they did not.
hahahaha
yeah my problem was that nobody explained that i’d have scabby insides and would pee out a bunch of blood about a week afterward. i panicked when it happened and called the doctor, who was not available, and his assistant fucking LAUGHED at me. I DIDN’T KNOW. THANKS.
I woke up in the middle of my last surgery. WOKE UP. Heard the doc say “she’s awake”. saw bright lights, then boom.. out again.
That was my 6th surgery. I will never ever ever have elective surgery for something non life-threatening. ever.
wendela said:I woke up in the middle of my last surgery. WOKE UP. Heard the doc say “she’s awake”. saw bright lights, then boom.. out again.
That was my 6th surgery. I will never ever ever have elective surgery for something non life-threatening. ever.
You have lived my nightmare.
Kevin V — I had the same thing happen to me after my wisdom teeth were removed. I was in the hospital since all four were impacted, and I too swallowed a lot of blood. Unfortunately, the nurses only made it worse for themselves because after I woke up, they immediately tried to get me to drink some Sprite and eat some jello and get me moving along. So I vomited bloody jello chunks into one of those little plastic kidney-shaped pans and handed it back to them.
Also, my old cubemate’s best friend had serious problems when she was delivering her baby (apparently the baby was too big and somehow had scratched/torn her innards on its way out) and had to have surgery. She was supposed to be unconscious, but she actually heard them say, “Oh god! We lost her!” Umm…no actually, still alive, but thanks for the years of therapy she’ll be undergoing.