I had a lump in my right groin that ached when I lifted or pulled heavy things. Turns out it was an 'inquinal hernia', I had it operated on in 1998. They insert some kind of a mesh screen to hold it all in. Same thing happened in 1999 on the left side of the groin, so I had the procedure done again. These were ambulatory surgeries in a hospital, and I went home the same day.
In 2003 I had painful hemorrhoids removed surgically. The non-invasive 'banding' technique wasn't appropriate to my situation, so I had to go under the knife. This was also ambulatory surgery, though I feel like they should have kept me over night due to the pain I was in post-op and the trauma I had when I had my first BM the next morning. Yeesh.
I was in pain for a whole week. The MD told me I would be on two painkillers: vicodin and toradol that I would alternate. I asked him, "well I could just take Tylenol, right?" and he said "no trust me, you're going to need these." And he was right, LOL.
Let's see, the only other surgery (if I can even call it that) was the 'wavefront' laser vision correction procedure they did on my eyes in 2004. Wavefront was the newest laser back then, my vision wasn't appropriate for the Lasik laser so I had to wait for this wavefront thing to be FDA approved. Piece of cake, and the results are great, no glasses in years!
Oh, and I had a cardiac catheterization in 2007 due to some cardiac symptoms I was having, but thank goodness, the vessels were all clear.
And that's about it..!
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