Well, that was interesting...

[Colonel Hogan]

I had surgery a little over two months ago. Today I went online and watched an abbreviated example of it. Glad I didn't do that in the days immediately preceding going under the knife. Would have freaked my ass right out.

 

[butters]

I had surgery a little over two months ago. Today I went online and watched an abbreviated example of it. Glad I didn't do that in the days immediately preceding going under the knife. Would have freaked my ass right out.

yeah, always watch in retrospect if you're going to watch it at all.

never needed a full hip joint replacement yet, hope never to need one, but i did watch the op on a tv programme once. *shudders* it wasn't the incisions but the ramming and hammering of the steel post down into the femur that freaked me out

 

[richard_daily]

Glad you're ok... and definitely don't look into how they make the sausage.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

Glad you're ok... and definitely don't look into how they make the sausage.

Funny you should mention sausage.

 

[Muzzled]

so NOW you can get it up?

 

[richard_daily]

Funny you should mention sausage.

Ouch.

 

[LIVINRFANTASIES]

Dollie

My husband had prostate cancer. We didn't know anything about radiation or how painfujl it would be. Actually we only knew prostate cancer makes a man unable to control when and how often he pees and keeps him from getting an erection.

The radiation was painless. Nothing more than laying to get X-rays. They never tell people these things.
Then after all 45 treatments he searched prostate cancer and read way more than we needed to know.

And about new hips. It's been at least ten years since my hubby got one hip replaced and two months later the other. They are titanium with a stainless ball in a plastic lined socket. The surgeon does actually hammer it in. They look ike a metal T-bone steak bone.
The first few weeks of recovery he had to sleep on a sofa bed and I had to lift his leg out of bed then back in. He said those first weeks were very painful. But he was walking so well in two months for his checkup he got the other right done then instead of waiting six months.
He was walking without a walker soon and without a cane before the two months. We even went hiking at around six weeks with the first hip. He has almost no scar. Just a tiny mark a few inches long that looks very faint. We were worried because we were still going to nude beaches places naked.

Everyone else we've known has big ugly scars. I need a knee but I'm living with the pain and occasional popping noise.

We both need a complete overhaul.
He goes to the cancer doctor in December. Hoping to get injections or an implant. Then all three legs will be like new.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

yeah, always watch in retrospect if you're going to watch it at all.

never needed a full hip joint replacement yet, hope never to need one, but i did watch the op on a tv programme once. *shudders* it wasn't the incisions but the ramming and hammering of the steel post down into the femur that freaked me out

My sense of curiosity revolved around the implantation of a cervical cage in my neck and the use of autograft bone chips. When I think of a cage, I think of a wire cage, almost lattice-like structure. But it turns out that interbody cervical cages are an actual implant that fills the space vacated by the excised vertebrae. The bone chips are inserted into the interior volume of the cage through access holes. The bone chips fill most of the interior volume of the cage and grow together (fuse) into a single bone mass and provide supplemental structural integrity to the cage itself.

At least as best I can tell.

But you talk about ramming and hammering. "Excising" vertebrae is obviously not a genteel job. Basically, it's like ripping drywall off termite infested studs in gutting a condemned home. And it was all happening ridiculously close to my spinal cord -- which, of course, is why I was having it done anyway. To release stenotic pressure on the cord and restore lost neurological function.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

so NOW you can get it up?

That procedure is next month.

 

[Muzzled]

That procedure is next month.

https://victorypath.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/wpid-url.png

 

[Muzzled]

Yo, Hogan, Lemme know if it works, if it does, gimme name of DR....I could use him

 

[Izadora]

I had surgery a little over two months ago. Today I went online and watched an abbreviated example of it. Glad I didn't do that in the days immediately preceding going under the knife. Would have freaked my ass right out.

Sometimes ignorance truly is bliss. Aren't you afraid you will look up all future surgical procedures now though?

 

[juttjaw]

I once happened onto a channel showing someone getting hair plugs. I will never get that image out of my head.

 

[bluekitty69]

Good luck, I won't say break a leg!

My husband had prostate cancer. We didn't know anything about radiation or how painfujl it would be. Actually we only knew prostate cancer makes a man unable to control when and how often he pees and keeps him from getting an erection.

The radiation was painless. Nothing more than laying to get X-rays. They never tell people these things.
Then after all 45 treatments he searched prostate cancer and read way more than we needed to know.

And about new hips. It's been at least ten years since my hubby got one hip replaced and two months later the other. They are titanium with a stainless ball in a plastic lined socket. The surgeon does actually hammer it in. They look ike a metal T-bone steak bone.
The first few weeks of recovery he had to sleep on a sofa bed and I had to lift his leg out of bed then back in. He said those first weeks were very painful. But he was walking so well in two months for his checkup he got the other right done then instead of waiting six months.
He was walking without a walker soon and without a cane before the two months. We even went hiking at around six weeks with the first hip. He has almost no scar. Just a tiny mark a few inches long that looks very faint. We were worried because we were still going to nude beaches places naked.

Everyone else we've known has big ugly scars. I need a knee but I'm living with the pain and occasional popping noise.

We both need a complete overhaul.
He goes to the cancer doctor in December. Hoping to get injections or an implant. Then all three legs will be like new.

As the saying goes, geting older isn't for sissys!

 

[Colonel Hogan]

Sometimes ignorance truly is bliss. Aren't you afraid you will look up all future surgical procedures now though?

I hope you're not suggesting that I should open a new bookmarks folder.

http://weknowmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/skepitical-baby-meme-366x250.jpg

 

[adrina]

Saw a video of my uncle's knee surgery once. It was pretty gross.

I'll stick to cutting up chickens thanks.

 

[Hypoxia]

I watched my knee arthroscopy on the vid monitor. That wasn't bad. I've recently had eye surgeries and invasive procedures. I do NOT want to watch such occur. Eyeballs are just too... personal. It's weird enough, viewing highlighted retinal capillaries from the inside.

PS: I also haven't viewed my urethral endoscopy, reproductive and cranial surgeries, setting of fractures, and freeze-offs of skin tags. TMI.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

I watched my knee arthroscopy on the vid monitor. That wasn't bad. I've recently had eye surgeries and invasive procedures. I do NOT want to watch such occur. Eyeballs are just too... personal. It's weird enough, viewing highlighted retinal capillaries from the inside.

PS: I also haven't viewed my urethral endoscopy, reproductive and cranial surgeries, setting of fractures, and freeze-offs of skin tags. TMI.

I'm with you on the eyeball thingy. No, no, no, no, no.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Glad you're ok... and definitely don't look into how they make the sausage.

I went on a school field trip once to a plant that made hot dogs made from chicken. Live chickens in, hot dogs out.

They offered extra credit to anyone brave enough to go down to the killing floor. I got the extra credit, but never ate a chicken hot dog again.

 

[butters]

My sense of curiosity revolved around the implantation of a cervical cage in my neck and the use of autograft bone chips. When I think of a cage, I think of a wire cage, almost lattice-like structure. But it turns out that interbody cervical cages are an actual implant that fills the space vacated by the excised vertebrae. The bone chips are inserted into the interior volume of the cage through access holes. The bone chips fill most of the interior volume of the cage and grow together (fuse) into a single bone mass and provide supplemental structural integrity to the cage itself.

At least as best I can tell.

But you talk about ramming and hammering. "Excising" vertebrae is obviously not a genteel job. Basically, it's like ripping drywall off termite infested studs in gutting a condemned home. And it was all happening ridiculously close to my spinal cord -- which, of course, is why I was having it done anyway. To release stenotic pressure on the cord and restore lost neurological function.

sounds quite fascinating

no, i don't wanna hear

nor would i ever want to watch footage of me giving birth i find it hard to watch real live births on tv - brings it all home again.

I'm with you on the eyeball thingy. No, no, no, no, no.

just... no

i don't even know how people get their eye ops done awake. *shudders*

 

[Hypoxia]

i don't even know how people get their eye ops done awake. *shudders*

I've experienced two out of three possible procedures for my ailments.

First type, poking into each eye. These were minimal surgeries. Nothing by mouth after midnight. Lie on table, take IV of 'relaxing' anesthesia, not total, but confusing. Pay no attention to what's happening -- the probing around and scooping out with appropriate hardware; the laser tacking-down the left retina; the random flashes and sounds. Then sit and recover for a couple hours and return the next day for checkup. Right eye was scoop-only. Left eye was scoop-and-laser.

Second type, needles into eyeball. Go to office. Aide swabs topicals around my right eye socket. Retinologist grins and VERY quickly pokes a short needle into my eyeball. OUCH! The needle-shock remains for days. I've had this twice, injected with what he called DISOLVE-ALL to break up clotting and heal damaged, regrowing capillaries.

Third type, laser only. Hasn't happened yet. Might be needed in a few weeks to secure the right retina. It's another in-office procedure, and I have no idea of anesthesia or anything else.

So, type #1 is more bothersome before the cutting; type #2 is suckier during and after the procedure; and I don't know what to expect from #3. But I'm more-or-less awake during everything.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

I've experienced two out of three possible procedures for my ailments.

First type, poking into each eye. These were minimal surgeries. Nothing by mouth after midnight. Lie on table, take IV of 'relaxing' anesthesia, not total, but confusing. Pay no attention to what's happening -- the probing around and scooping out with appropriate hardware; the laser tacking-down the left retina; the random flashes and sounds. Then sit and recover for a couple hours and return the next day for checkup. Right eye was scoop-only. Left eye was scoop-and-laser.

Second type, needles into eyeball. Go to office. Aide swabs topicals around my right eye socket. Retinologist grins and VERY quickly pokes a short needle into my eyeball. OUCH! The needle-shock remains for days. I've had this twice, injected with what he called DISOLVE-ALL to break up clotting and heal damaged, regrowing capillaries.

Third type, laser only. Hasn't happened yet. Might be needed in a few weeks to secure the right retina. It's another in-office procedure, and I have no idea of anesthesia or anything else.

So, type #1 is more bothersome before the cutting; type #2 is suckier during and after the procedure; and I don't know what to expect from #3. But I'm more-or-less awake during everything.

See, this is where I stand shoulder to shoulder with Butters. No one should have to ever read or hear the phrase (which I will abbreviate) "NIE," much less go through it. The fact that a Retinologist would so thoroughly enjoy his work as to be standing over a patient grinning before performing such a procedure only leads me to speculate how we might reliably identify BDSM sexual perverts from the general labor force at large.

 

[Rightguide]

That procedure is next month.

Our differences aside. I wish you well and hope for a successful outcome for you next month.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

........

 

[Colonel Hogan]

Our differences aside. I wish you well and hope for a successful outcome for you next month.

Edited to add: I missed the sarcasm in your last post. Damn your ass.

But I have to admit. It was rather humorous.