Comments on: It’s What They Don’t Tell You

By: Julia

Julia — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 23:48:58 +0000

I my hubby had started snapping pictures of me like I would have beat him with the camera. lol

By: Julia

Julia — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 12:17:16 +0000

The surgery is one thing but the emotional pain leading up to it is quite another. Wouldn’t want to go through that again!

By: Nicki

Nicki — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:34:57 +0000

Luckily I haven’t had any ill after-effects from the surgery. One of my neighbors had it done the same week I did and she’s had all sorts of stomach-related maladies. Me, I’ve been able to eat whatever I want whenever I want.

By: Eddy Susanto

Eddy Susanto — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 07:36:49 +0000

Hear about surgery, make me afraid to the doctor. Surgery makes me feel pain.

By: CS Queen

CS Queen — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:09:59 +0000

The worst for me was that no one ever told me you might wake up during surgery. I woke up during an oral procedure that had my head immobilized and my mouth stuffed full. It took me 5 minutes of terror before I was able to get someones attention to the fact that I was conscious. I would rather be awake for my surgery than wake up in the middle disoriented, drugged, and able to communicate.

By: Tvents

Tvents — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 02:36:35 +0000

I don’t have any experience with surgery. When I type this comment, my sister has to face her surgery for her eye. I cannot stay besides her during the surgery. But I support her through my pray. The same to you, I would like to pray for you too.

By: Nicki

Nicki — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:22:20 +0000

1. LOL, you’re not the first to make that comment on this thread.

3. To work. As much as I’d love to spend the recommended full week recovering at home, I had to come back to work. I’ve already spent plenty of PTO that I didn’t have. Luckily the company I work for will let you go “in the hole” and have negative PTO until you earn enough to clear the balance. (at this rate, it’ll be about a year from now, LOL!)

Thanks for dropping by!

By: Don

Don — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:10:16 +0000

[1] Nicki, you, Brittney, and Ran Kailie (whose before and after boob surgery photos would be interesting to see) should seriously consider the possibility of becoming stand-up comics and touring whatever circuit they tour.
[2] Your Jim is really a GEM…..but you already know that.
[3] I’m pleased that you are feeling better now, but what the hell were you getting into the car for when you wrote “(And getting into the car this morning was interesting. Heh.)”?

By: Nicki

Nicki — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:18:26 +0000

Heh, I would have loved to have had some last night. (can’t sleep during storms, no matter how tired I am!)

By: Ran Kailie

Ran Kailie — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:12:09 +0000

Yeah morphine is good stuff. The night I spent after my last surgery I had a morphine button for pain. Good times. But I could tell whenever it started wearing off because it felt like I’d been mauled by a wild animal.

By: Nicki

Nicki — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:23:17 +0000

Holy cow! Yeah, I’d be freaking out too.

I think you and my hubby should probably trade pain tolerance stories, LOL!

The morphine was definitely my favorite.

By: Ran Kailie

Ran Kailie — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:17:03 +0000

Yeah surgery can be a mixed bag depending on the person. The three times I’ve gone under were very different from your experiences. As a little kid the first time my tonsils were out they had to give me two times the normal “adult” dose of gas before I went down. I remember to doctor telling me to count to 40. I made it to 40 and was told to start over, amazingly I also remember getting a lollipop after surgery for doing it from my surgeon.

I unfortunately however woke up very early. Like still in the recovery room, alone, surrounded by many other still bodies and with a breathing tube still in. Good times, I blame this for my zombie obsession. But I woke up, started freaking out, nurse came in, tried to console me, they had to get my daddy out of the waiting room >_>’ before I stopped.

On the plus side to probably scarring childhood trauma it was good for guilty trips. It earned me plenty of Blue Popsicles for the night I spent in the hospital. The nurse apparently ran to the store just to get me a box of blue popsicles I could eat while watching ET.

Second surgery I was 18 and getting my tonsils out, again (they grew back and abscessed). Same as before, needed more gas then normal, woke up as they were pulling the breathing tube out. I even remember the time on the clock in front of me, 10:44 AM. Uneventful otherwise, though I had enough morphine in me and liquid tylenol 3 that an hour after throat surgery I was scarfing two full lumberjack meals at Denny’s. Om nom nom. Liquid pain killers are win.

Most recently was the boob surgery. Same as before, I even warned them so they had a specialist in anesthesia there. I impressed her with my tolerance, she still put me out. I still woke up as they were taking the tube out. Ah yes the breathing tube induced asthma attack, good times.

Important note for me is that anesthesia seems to make me ridiculously hungry. Every time I’ve woken up ravenous. Unfortunately this time there was no good food to be had and I was stuck there the night. I was up and about for about an hour before they gave me more morphine, then it was nighty night.