Any one every have an operation?

obplayer wrote: »

Been an in-patient in Beaumont four times, food was fine.

Naas hospital is nice too! Was in for a week after a car crash when I broke my sternum, the lady serving the food kept saving me the red jelly

Itzy wrote: »

Anyone every have a procedure done before? I'm stuck in hospital after having my appendix removed yesterday and dreading the thought of possibly having my gallbladder removed tomorrow. My stomach already hurts like fúck. So I'm posting here to take the píss out of it and hopefully take my mind off it as I do some work as well.

Just Wishing you A Speedy Recovery & Hope All Goes Well for You

xxxJennyxxx wrote: »

It's only if you dont mind it, I was unlucky due to how the stitches were put in.
I would say get them out if they need to two of mine were impacted causing infection, other was coming out the side of my gum and the other was stuck under my molars. Agony for weeks before I got them out, instant relief from the headaches and tension pain once the stitches dissolve.

Yeah Candie I had 3 taken out with no problems (not all at same time though), the relief from having them out, you just feel so light afterwards rather than the constant tension, pain and pressure... It's well worthwhile.

Deleted User wrote: »

I remember being given morphine the day after my second operation. Oh sweet zombie Jesus, it was magnificent! Then they took me off it again after only one or two days, the bastards.

Morphine is amazing ... I had it on tap with my sternum

Itzy wrote: »

If I dont do some work, I'll crack up in here. Like the poached eggs and toast I had today for tea. Painkillers are great, but some knobend had me down as not being aloud any. The surgeon copped it this evening and I in agony. Poor fecker went bananas altogether.

It's shocking the way you have to be so pushy and attentive to get anything like that in hospital. Had similar situations while in there, if I had to go back now I would be in full combat and defense mode, it's hard when you're wrecked or in pain though.

Deleted User wrote: »

I remember being given morphine the day after my second operation. Oh sweet zombie Jesus, it was magnificent! Then they took me off it again after only one or two days, the bastards.

I had a morphine pump first C-section recovery, it was a mad experience, still don't know if I loved it or hated it. Was afraid to handle the baby I was so high.

I had some work done in the ladies department some years back, apart from the discomfort, being waited on was very nice! I didn't want to leave Aut Even Kilkenny.

I had two operations on my left arm when I was about eleven or twelve. I fell off a horse and dislocated and fractured my elbow so it needed to be pinned back together. I still can't fully straighten that arm. I also had my tonsils taken out.

Mountainsandh wrote: »

The clicky thing ? Clic when you feel you need it they said...


Clic. (Sigh)

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Clic. Clic. (Aww... Ants ! Up there !)

Clic, clic, clic.

A friend of mine rang while I was in that state, i remember nothing of the call except I whispered all along for some reason (I was alone in room).

Yes haha they're brilliant!
I had some very questionable conversations too which I have no memory of, apparently I rang my mother at 4am (say she had a heart attack seeing a phone call at that time) and asked her to get my chain ... I was apparently very insisting that I needed this chain, don't know what chain I was talking about, didn't have any nice necklaces at the time. Luckily the nurse took me back to bed and apologised to my poor mother.

I also went mad paranoid because I was convinced my horse wasn't being fed, I went proper mad, no recollection of this, day I got discharged I went straight to the yard to see her I was that paranoid. At an equestrian yard in my dressing gown and slippers, high off my head on morphien with bed hair. I was convinced she was starving. Fat mess looked up at me covered in hay, I apologised afterwards about screaming down the phone luckily the owners of the yard minding her understood :rolleyes:

Posted weird stuff on facebook too, many people got a laught at my cryptic and random poems haha

You should not be in pain at all. Ask to speak to the pain doctor, they will assess your level and medicate as necessary. might as well get the good stuff while you can.

3 sections none planned, first was the worst, could not turn without nearly crying.

Wisdom teeth, grand, easiest surgery of the lot

Sinus drain x 2,

Disc removed, lots of lovely drugs afterwards but long stay in hospital due to complications.

Another back one next month.

Jasus I am a crock.

When I had my first operation, it was back in the days when you had to put 50p in the telly for it to work. The meals were put on a share table in the room. I was in as my back just gave up and could not walk, I did not eat for 2 days as could not walk over to the table and was too shy to ask the dinner lady. The senior sister would do the rounds at night and make the sign of the cross at you. I was put into a ward with old people and I was only 18, some of them die god love them and some were senile. It was a learning curve.

Hope you are feeling better soon and ask for more pain relief

I had my tonsils out when I was four. I still remember them putting a mask over my mouth and telling me to count to 10. I got to two. Then I had the old "floating over the operating table" experience, which obviously was a dream or something. Then I vaguely remember waking up in pitch darkness in the middle of the night and crying for my parents. A nurse came in and gave me some medicine, tasted like oranges. Next thing it was morning and my dad was carrying me to the car on his shoulders like a champion.

I've had probably close to a dozen operations at this stage, with at least two more some time scheduled in the next 10 years or so, and I'm still alive and well. Tbh, and it is understandable, we tend to build them up in our heads beforehand to more than they are. The people operating operate on countless people every year without any problems, so I've never had any reason not to trust them. And the painkillers afterwards are usually top quality.

I got one of my kidneys removed just over a month ago. My first ever surgery. It was pretty weird waking up after it but glad it was over me.