Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Octavius on October 24, 2003, 01:47:32 PM
-
... kiss my ass!
I do NOT want to go through that again. 7:30 am yesterday I get up and feels like I have major gas built up. I think nothing of it, have some coffee, and ride the bus down to campus. Midway through the first lecture, I run outta the classroom for 'emergency #2 procedures'. I went, but no relief.
Then came the vomiting and I said screw it, I'm out. Call for a ride, head to the hospital and am in surgery less than an hour later. Fun stuff! not.
Seems me and surgery go quite well together in October (last year was knee surgery).
Ah well, just another normal Thursday for me. Good thing is, it went well, nothing burst. And I have a decent supply of vicodin :)
grr
[edit]misspelled the title, how embarrassing :o [/edit]
-
Get well soon, Oct... best of luck.
-
Dude! screw it, stash the vicodin, complain about pain and ask for OxyContin :)
Trust me, it makes life fun again....real fine buzz!
If fact, youll start to realize that surgery is almost worth the buzz of oxycontin. Just dont take more than two in a four hour period and do not...I reapeat DO NOT have even a sip of whisky
Go do it !;)
-
My brother and sister in law left Sunday for a week long trip to Mexico. Wednesday morning I got a call from the SIL saying that her better half was in the hospital with appendicitis. He had surgery yesterday. Damn, I don't what would scare me more. The appendicitis or the thought of having it done in some Mexican hospital. Yikes! :eek:
-
Ya yet the OXi so i can call you RUSH lol
Sorry to hear it OCT hope you get better soon!
-
Dude did they use the scope on ya or lay you open?
-
Thx guys.
My surgeon did a 3.5" incision. He mentioned the scope from three different points was usually reserved for obese patients.
-
LOL I am not fat but they did go in thru my belly button.
But because mine had ruptured a little they kept me in hospital on antibiotics for 5 days with a drainage tube hanging out of me :eek:
-
My surgeon used a technique where the incision being about 1.75 inches and the stitches being of a dissolvable nature placed under the epidermis and the wound taped shut.
It happened three years ago and I can not find a scar and in fact, am no longer sure where the incision was made.
The wonderful thing about appendicitus is that once you have had that little bastard removed, it can never ever bother you again. A transformation of sorts. and like I said, the oxycontin made it into a very very bearable experience, yes....I do think I even enjoyed the whole thing.
-
Originally posted by Octavius
Seems me and surgery go quite well together in October (last year was knee surgery).
grr
A few years back I had knee surgery, I almost chopped me leg off in a bike accident. They had to replace ACL,PCL, and some of them Medials. 3 Years on the mend.
I feel for ya bud, good luck.
Bumba
-
Take it easy and get well soon.
miko
-
Originally posted by Octavius
I do NOT want to go through that again.
unless you're some kind of mutant freakazoid, you shouldn't have to.:eek:
-
you dont have three appendices?! :D
(http://sammycprowrestling.homestead.com/files/freakazoid.gif)
-
Originally posted by Octavius
you dont have three appendices?! :D
(http://sammycprowrestling.homestead.com/files/freakazoid.gif)
:aok
-
Wow, scary stuff...out in a day? Excellent!
I've had two surgeries this year, in planning for number 3...more plastic surgery for my hand :( I asked to push it up a few months...I can only take being one handed so much!
Scars: I had a knee scoped a few years ago...cant really see the scars from the incisions...one i can....barely.
-
OT big time!
I love Freakazoid! One of the funniest toons ever. The "Foamy the Dog" episode brought a tear to my eye.
Get well soon Oct.
-
Oct,
I'm glad you're okay...I wish you a speedy recovery!
MRPLUTO
-
Originally posted by DiabloTX
My brother and sister in law left Sunday for a week long trip to Mexico. Wednesday morning I got a call from the SIL saying that her better half was in the hospital with appendicitis. He had surgery yesterday. Damn, I don't what would scare me more. The appendicitis or the thought of having it done in some Mexican hospital. Yikes! :eek:
What is it with these things? Do they KNOW your not at home? Mine kicked in high gear while I was in the middle of knowhere Virginia, 350 miles from home. I drove half way back and passed out in the back seat while my wife drove the rest. Got home, checked the internet for medical info. When it said "or more likely appendicitis", I hopped right back in the car.
That was about 2 months ago. I have a real nice 1.5 inch purple scar. The other 2 are almost gone. Yeah, they scoped me, and I'm def. not obese.
-
Well THAT was sudden! Make sure you send your CO all your medication so that I may test it for contamination.
Hope your feeling better!
-
Get well soon. Glad it went quickly!
-
I had my appendix out in the early eighties, just finished a weekend field exercise with my battalion. The next night at home I was vomitiing non stop, blamed the army food. The tricky thing about appendicitis is that you don't neccessarily feel pain in that area. It's can go like food poisoning. Then I saw a doc in the morning and I ended up in an ambulance complete with siren and flashing lights. Operated on immediately but was stuck in hospital for week and out of work for three weeks. It was apparently a close run thing.
This was all before dissolvable stitches and keyhole surgery so I sport an impressive scar to this day. Appendicitis is so common almost routine but really quite dangerous if not caught.
-
Originally posted by Ripsnort
Well THAT was sudden! Make sure you send your CO all your medication so that I may test it for contamination.
Hope your feeling better!
LOL...and your squaddies. You have my address. :)
I must have missed this thread..man, glad you are okay.
You seem to be very keen on surgery..that is twice now in recent history.
-
There was this asian kid when I was in highschool. He had to go in for his apendix one morning from school and had it cut out. His parents made him come to school the next day :eek: That dudes was a nerd, but he was a tough GD nerd!
My best friends cousin (who died a bout 2 years after this story) had his apendix burst and he thought it was bad gas so he didn't go to the hospital. Well the gas never went away for like 3 or 4 days and started get baaaad and he got real sick, I mean deathly ill. His wife finally made him go to the emergency room and they found out his apendix had burst and he had gangreen inside his freaking torso :eek: He was in the hospital for over a week getting well over that one.
-
Appendicitis sux.
Last year i got really ill, had to call a doctor out, got sent to hospital.
When there had to wait 5 hours in agony, no painkillers for a hospital bed (friggen useless POS NHS for ya) 2 weeks go by, nil by mouth so i cant eat and lose all weight. They do loads of tests, cant find anything and send me home.
3 days later im back in A&E (accident and emergency) waiting for another hospital bed (about 4 hours this time). atleast this time im morphined up, they do more tests, cant find whats wrong, im supposed to have a lapiroscopy (sp? where they stick a camera inside of you!) but its delayed for 3 days running.
By this time we realise i have private health cover from where my mum works - and im moved to the private ward, the day im moved there (out of NHS) i get my operation, they realise from the camera i have had a blocked appendix and its leaked poison all inside of me.
They cut me open, take everything out and have to clean it. I wake up after op expecting a little scar from camera and have a nice 8 inch cut down my front, lucky they didnt delay my op another day or apparently i would be dead.
In hospital recovering for another 2 weeks but they rush me out to home because the private ward closes for christmas, i get out of hospital weighing 8st (112lb's) from when i went in at about 11st (154lb) for someone thats 6ft tall. Its taken me about 9 months to put the weight back on. I used to be able to run 100m in under 12 seconds and play 90mins football easy, now i doubt i could even finish sprinting the 100m!
Kinda sux when yer 19 years old and cant leave the fuggin house for a year, hence the time spent in AH!
-
damn furball! that no painkillers the first time?
What sort of tests did they run? They sent me for two CT scans. First run they found nothing. Second run they gave me a bad tasting 'contrast' to drink and injected a dye through my IV. At first, the doctors suggested it might be a kidney stone, but the second test confirmed it was the appendix... and they also found a very small kidney stone. Perhaps I'll have more fun in store for me in the future :)
-
yup, they thought it might be kidney stones for me too at first! I got my xrays and stuff at home because my sister works at a hospital, and she got hold em for me. Just counted em and i have 13 different sheets of scans and a little booklet of pictures of my kidney:-
Chest X-Rays
CT scans (same as you, abdomen with contrast)
Ultra Sound
MRI.
Cant remember which one was each, one was a tube they stick you in on a trolly that makes funny noises for 15 or so mins! other one was like a big donut they stick you through, and one was a kinda scanner they use to look at pregnant women!
They told us so much chit! they told my dad before my op that it could be cancer, before that they thought it could be krones disease, hepititus, gastroentitius, and pretty much every other illness you can think of, lol!
-
Furball...as quoted from the Kinks Tune, "Blame it on the National Health. ;)
Tough stuff man, sorry to hear it.
-
heal Up Octavio! Get well and get laid
!
-
Glad to hear everything's going well now.