How many surgeries have you had?

[Bugman]

Since we have been taking an inventory of broken bones, might as well talk about going under the knife.

I've only had one. Late in 2000 I started having intermittent pain in my right ankle. It would last anywhere from a few minutes to all day, and sometimes it would come and go during the day. It kept getting worse and since my job involved a lot of walking I finally went to a doctor.

An x-ray showed calcium deposits floating around in the ankle joint, so that's why it didn't hurt all the time. I had the operation late in June 2001 and was home later that day full of morphine. I was on crutches for about a week, and it took forever to recover. In fact, I was still off work and at home on 9-11. Turned on the TV just before the second plane hit.

 

[kurchatovium]

One surgey for an Inguinal Hernia.

 

[unclebill]

Three years ago I had an operation for a torn meniscus in my left knee. It took about 18 months for it to completely heal, as it used to swell up after overtime hours at the jobsite. For an old man, I am still very active in sports and the only negative thing the operation did was take away my "giddy-up" when I sprint.😡

 

[texastickler]

Ummmmmm! 6 at last count. Might be heading for a 7th. (Warning to all you youngsters! Take care of your body!) I was brutal to myself in the early days!😀

 

[nenezinho]

My count is at 2 so far 🙂 not that drastic 🙂

1st was because i had a coin stuck on my throat.....after playing this game of "hidding the coin".....yeahhhh i know, crazy idea to swallow it.....really crazy!!!! but kids can be like that. I had to go through surgery as the coin was discovered to be stuck and somewhat giving me lots of troube breathing. I was lucky enough not to get killed by that crazy idea.

2nd was just Appendicitis (12 March 2008). I never had any warning. Then out of the blue one morning i wake up with this incredible pain. I thought it was something i had the previous day....maybe too much chocolate 😛 It was quite agressive and fast so by the time i finally got to the hospital things were getting quite hard. Still....the damn surgeon was not too keen on removing it as he thought i was not really critical because i was not screaming bloody murder. He was only moved when i threw up some really green stuff and almost passed out completely. By the time they finally decide to move it had burst and they had to cut quite a bit on my waist to clean stuff inside. It´s still quite visible on my waist line and it will be forever.

 

[goddess_nemesis]

I've only had one surgery when I was 16 and I still have the scar to prove it. Lol. 😛

It was spring of my sophomore year of high school. I remember waking up in pain Saturday morning. My whole right side, no matter how I positioned myself, hurt. I was still in pain when Monday rolled around and my mom took me to the doctor. He examined my stomach with his touch and then tapped the bottom of my foot, which hurt like a mother.

My doctor believed that it was my appendix and had me rushed to the hospital for surgery. Originally the surgeon made three small incisions to remove it, but he discovered that my appendix had already burst so he had to make a much larger incision (about 7 inches) to clean out the puss and everything. 😱 My recovery took much longer than planned because my appendix had burst and it was just a mess in that area. I had to have a draining tube at the bottom of my tummy and for awhile I had to have a nurse come out to change the bandage and clean out the incision. 😱

I was told after my surgery that the doctor figured my appendix had burst 1 or 2 weeks ago, but I didn't feel any pain until that weekend before my emergency surgery. Ironically 2 weeks before I had my surgery to remove appendix, my cousin Matt had his removed.

 

[AngelOfDarkness]

None so far, but I came close to having a severely ingrown toenail surgically removed (thank god I didn't, I was terrified!).

 

[shark]

six

 

[emilyemilyemily]

seventeen.

 

[The Fallen Angel]

3 all on my knee i broke my patella and tore my acl,mcl and pcl and needed 3 surgeries to get it fixed

i may need another on that same knee in a few years i was told

 

[Mitchell]

Four. Two major, and two minor.

The major ones:

Eye surgery when I was two, to correct what I was told was a crossed right eye.

Achillies Tendon surgery when I was nine. I was born with a short Achillies Tendon, which caused me to walk on my toes on my left foot. Once I had the surgery, it was healed. I was out of school for the remainder of the year, and had to get a tutor. I had a huge cast on my leg, and was in a wheelchair, and then on crutches, for at least six weeks.


The minor ones:

Plantar's Wart surgery on my toe in 1990, complete with four novicaine shots in my toe. Incredible pain.

Four teeth pulled when I had my braces put on in 1984, complete with several novicaine shots in the jaw. Huge pain.

 

[Bugman]

seventeen.

Bless your heart. I can't imagine going through something like that.

 

[emilyemilyemily]

Bless your heart. I can't imagine going through something like that.

i appreciate the sentiment, but i'm fine. promise.

 

[desdemona]

Hmmmm... counting the one this week, three (general anesthesia only).

Wisdom teeth (1990), appendectomy (1991), and gall bladder removed this week (2010) 🙂

 

[ticklingfeet4fu]

I have had three. I suffer from epilepsy. When I was 12, I had two major brain tumor operations. The first one was a 9 hour procedure and my second one was a 16 hour affair where they lost me before I ended ip surviving. Then when I was 14, I was back under the knife for my third major brain tumor operation. This lasted only five hours with no threat to my life. And here we are.

 

[asutickler]

One.

My wisdom teeth were all SEVERELY impacted, and had to be removed surgically. I have a groove across the roof of my mouth where they had to slice in and dig out one of the top ones, and the last one was so bad that I actually came out from under the anesthetic while the oral surgeon was still trying to rip it out. And I mean "rip" literally. I swear to God, he was using what looked like a big-ass pair of pliers. Not fun.

 

[Skipadeedoodah]

One. When I was just a wee little lass (4) my appendix ruptured and I had to have emergency surgery 🙁 It was scary and awful and I had to spend almost 2 weeks in the hospital. There are lots more dramatic details for the morbidly curious, but I imagine most people won't really care LOL

I also had to have my wisdom teeth removed, but whether or not it was "surgery" has been debated. I say no, because I wasn't put to sleep - I just had eighteen (yes...18) shots of Novocaine. Others say yes, because the process to remove them was "surgical." Whatever.

 

[milagros317]

Only one surgery by a medical doctor which required general anesthesia, an appendectomy.

All too many, four, by oral surgeons for impacted wisdom teeth among other dental woes.

I'm not counting excision of dangerous moles by a dermatologist, which is technically minor surgery, since it's done under local anesthetic in a few minutes.

 

[Filthyweasel]

I'm not sure if I can count 2 dental surgeries and my...um...circumcision. But I was always terrified of ever getting proper hospital surgery when I was young. Then when I was 20 my right lung spontaneously collapsed one morning. My first real surgery was in the ER under a shot of Novocaine in the armpit, wide awake, getting a tube shoved in between my ribs. That basically got rid of all fears. A week later I had to get the lung stapled shut after allowing it to heal with the chest tube failed (I still think it was a percoset-induced fit of giggles I'd gotten the day before...I felt something pop and saw a torrent of bubbles in the connected water canister I had to carry around).

My second surgery was a hernia one a few weeks before going to Bella's last year. Half an hour and was on my way home again.

 

[vladtickleman22]

31 in total. 26 spina bifida related and 5 non spina bifida related.

 

[TKL_Rebel]

i have had 2 OPs

one of which was to take my appendix out

still gt the scar to show 😀

 

[Bugman]

Hmmmm... counting the one this week, three (general anesthesia only).

Wisdom teeth (1990)

I forgot to include my wisdom teeth. It was done under general anesthesia by an oral surgon, so that ups my total to two.

 

[Artoo]

I've never been under the knife before.

 

[desdemona]

I forgot to include my wisdom teeth. It was done under general anesthesia by an oral surgon, so that ups my total to two.

Better question... how many surgeries have you done! 😉

 

[Bugman]

Better question... how many surgeries have you done! 😉

None, thank you very much.

I imagine you have quite a few notches on your scalpel.