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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2016 18:22:09 GMT -5
Thanks, y'all. Thing is, I feel perfectly fine, or at least as close to perfectly fine as I ever feel. I have noticed a few times over the last month or so some quick stitches of pain in the surgery area, but they were so fleeting I thought nothing of it.
That ... might not have been the smartest thing I've ever done.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2016 18:34:55 GMT -5
Yay. It appears I'm looking at surgery for the 2nd time in some 14 months. Saw my GP this morning for a routine checkup & made note of the fact that the last few days, off & on, I've noticed some intestinal protrusion around the same place I had the hernia & bowel strangulation last June. I see the surgeon Thursday a.m. Assuming I do indeed go under the knife again, here's hoping the lack of any pain or discomfort or for that matter real urgency on my doctor's part (last time, of course, he sent me immediately to the surgeon's office) means that this time it goes as it was supposed to last time, i.e. as an outpatient procedure. So sorry, Dan. Hope it takes this time. Pile up a nice stack of books to read while you recover. Oh, I still count last summer's procedure as a signal success, because the discovery of dead bowel -- which caught the surgeon by surprise (he said I shouldn't have been able to walk around with such pain, though in all honesty it didn't come close to what I've dealt with in the past from Crohn's, etc.) -- apparently is the reason I'm still around, period. Having to undergo the less serious (knock wood) procedure, assuming that that is indeed what happens, will be an annoyance, but with any luck it'll end there. I gather from poking around the web that having to undergo such surgery a second time is not unheard of. I suspect it leaves one just a bit more susceptible to such things, just as having, say, pneumonia does. Heck, this all serves me right for half-seriously thinking awhile back that I needed something nonroutine to happen with regard to my physical &/or dental ( mental is, of course, a lost cause) well-being because I was looking at finishing the year with about half my medical spending account untouched, which meant that money would be a total loss. Lo & behold, this happens, & in addition one of my upper right premolars has starting twinging whenever I bite down on anything with any substance whatsoever. As for "pile up a nice stack of books," I'm covered there. I've got 6 or 7 books from the library waiting to be read -- Simon Winchester's books on Krakatoa & on the San Francisco Earthquate, 3 novels by Nick Hornby & a mystery by a writer who's new to me -- & have accumulated a good dozen or so on various subjects (a couple on pop music, a couple more on radical politics & several more mysteries, including two of Craig Johnson's Walt Longmire novels that the library never got) via Amazon & ABEbooks sellers the last couple of weeks.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Aug 16, 2016 18:40:42 GMT -5
So Dan, curious to know, if you had to listen to one band or particular song before they knock you out for surgery, which would it be?
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Post by Cei-U! on Aug 16, 2016 18:58:15 GMT -5
So Dan, curious to know, if you had to listen to one band or particular song before they knock you out for surgery, which would it be? The Eagles, of course. Cei-U! I summon the peaceful easy feeling!
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Aug 16, 2016 19:04:39 GMT -5
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Post by Gene on Aug 16, 2016 21:39:24 GMT -5
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Post by DE Sinclair on Aug 16, 2016 22:28:02 GMT -5
Yay. It appears I'm looking at surgery for the 2nd time in some 14 months. Saw my GP this morning for a routine checkup & made note of the fact that the last few days, off & on, I've noticed some intestinal protrusion around the same place I had the hernia & bowel strangulation last June. I see the surgeon Thursday a.m. Assuming I do indeed go under the knife again, here's hoping the lack of any pain or discomfort or for that matter real urgency on my doctor's part (last time, of course, he sent me immediately to the surgeon's office) means that this time it goes as it was supposed to last time, i.e. as an outpatient procedure. Hopefully it will be the routine surgery you're expecting this time. Best wishes for a quick recovery.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2016 10:43:38 GMT -5
So Dan, curious to know, if you had to listen to one band or particular song before they knock you out for surgery, which would it be? Probably the Adverts' Gary Gilmore's Eyes, in the perverse hope that they'll completely botch things & accidentally perform an eye transplant instead.
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Post by hondobrode on Aug 17, 2016 16:08:14 GMT -5
Good luck with the surgery Dan !
Here's hoping it's as smooth as that Brother Power the Geek # 3 NM cover...
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Post by Prince Hal on Aug 17, 2016 16:41:48 GMT -5
Good luck with the surgery Dan ! Here's hoping it's as smooth as that Brother Power the Geek # 3 NM cover... Wish I could scan mine and post it, but I tore it off years ago. *Sigh*
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Post by Gene on Aug 17, 2016 17:13:50 GMT -5
Well, I was offered my choice of a temporary full time job or a permanent part time job. What a time to be out on the market.
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Post by The Captain on Aug 17, 2016 17:32:02 GMT -5
Well, I was offered my choice of a temporary full time job or a permanent part time job. What a time to be out on the market. Congrats! Nice to have some options. Hope whichever you pick turns out well. I heard back from one of the companies I interviewed with last week, and they won't be making me an offer. Little disappointing, but then two of the companies I submitted resumes to this week have already contacted me for phone interviews on Friday, and there is still the other company from last week yet to be heard from, so things are still looking OK.
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Post by Gene on Aug 17, 2016 17:42:10 GMT -5
Well, I was offered my choice of a temporary full time job or a permanent part time job. What a time to be out on the market. Congrats! Nice to have some options. Hope whichever you pick turns out well. I heard back from one of the companies I interviewed with last week, and they won't be making me an offer. Little disappointing, but then two of the companies I submitted resumes to this week have already contacted me for phone interviews on Friday, and there is still the other company from last week yet to be heard from, so things are still looking OK. Thanks. I went with the part-time gig. It's office work for my union local, so it actually works with my other part-time job as an organizer for the same local. I basically get to cut out the middle man between me and the executive board, because now I'll be the middle man. The other job was doing door to door canvassing for AFL-CIO's political activism arm. I actually like the organization a lot, but canvassing is not always my favorite thing to do.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2016 12:42:19 GMT -5
Actual good news -- mo surgery needed in the absence of any pain or other discomfort. The surgeon said to just keep an eye on it & let them know if anything changes. And to continue avoiding lifting anything heavy, which gives me an excuse for not having touched any of my comics short boxes (much less the long boxes, of which I think I have only 4, as compared to somewhere around 100 short ones) over the last year-plus.
The hernia itself isn't a surprise, from what he said. In having to perform the bowel resectioning last June, he wasn't able to actually remedy the hernia itself. That would've entailed using the mesh screen he originally planned to implant, but doing so wasn't possible under the circumstances. Consequently, to use his adjective, from the standpoint of the hernia per se the procedure was "suboptimal," albeit unavoidably so.
As a side note, I'll observe that it's always interesting to hear one's surgeon, in recounting one's procedure from last year for the practitioner accompanying him during my visit this a.m., use the descriptor "a nightmare." Just brings home yet again how lucky I am to have survived all that, apparently.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Aug 18, 2016 21:31:06 GMT -5
Heard for the first time a radio ad pitching folks to invest into the ROBOT Yogurt Business. Seems the minimum investment is $140,000 for 4 kiosk machines that includes full support from the home office. Check out the robot twerking as it makes the yogurt
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