Category: Health and Wellness
Hi All, Just wondering if you all have any stories, gory or no, about operations or surgeries? Experiences? Opinions? Feelings? Faint memories? Anyone? I myself have only had a hernia operation, and I was thre years old at the timee. All I remember was inhaling something that supposedly made me fall asleep. I remember the bed was wheeling under me, and the doc was all, "Just breathe in some of this. DO you like chocolate?", and even at that young age I was like, "Yes," and he was like, "Good," and I remember smelling the chocolate and reaching up and feeling some plastic tupperware cup thing under my nose and then I fell asleep. I dunno what they did to me! Maybe they got me high or something , and that's why I am as crazy as I am today! Lol! Anyway, any stories from any of you? HOpe so! Caitlin
Two root canals, 5 eye operations, the only eye thing I remember was the Cornia transplant 5 months ago...
cortney
Oh yeah, I've had some teeth pulled too, Courtcourt, it's all gone pretty well for me. And I've had oral surgery too, where they put this little chain in my mouth. If anyone wants to full description I have on that, PM me lol, I've got it somewhere. Very ... er ... descriptive. Basically they ripped my gum open and inserted the chain onto my bone somehow, my jaw bone or something, way up in the roof, I dunno what they did! Heehee. And the teeth pulling I just got laughing gas, which is very strang,e and always makes me feel all tingly and weird hehehee. Caitlin
well where do I start. Every opperation I've had accept 1 had to do with my eyes. The other one was to get tubes in my ears. I had 13 eye opperations before I was 2, and a few more afterwards. I think they tromitized me though, because now I am scared to death of doctors. I hate neadles as well. I remember the last one, when I had to breathe in the anastetic. It was grose! I hate that I remember it all so vividly. I remember waking up in the recovery room. and the doctors giving my doll a hospital bracelet to!
hehehe I think they gave my doll a hospital bracelet too. Oh and I forgot an operation, ish, thing that happened to me. I had a stye in my eye and they had to cut it out! Well first they numbed my eye, and then they started to cut the stye out. They sort of pulled the inside of my eey away and put it in a clamp, and I could feel all the sort of watering eye business going all over my face. And then while my inner eye was in the clamp they started to snip the stye out, and all this blood and gosh knows what else was running down my face! Then they unclamped my eye, and finished cutting, I could hear the snips, it sounded like cloth being cut, and I could sort of feel these sickening tugs on my eye, because it was numb, that's all I felt. And then they put all this cream on it and gave me a patch that was about a foot and a half long. Lol! It was very ... strange. It didn't hurt really, was just weird. Caitlin
Oh and also the first doc who was supposed to do it was very creepy. Caitlin
well, the only . . . well operation type thing that was really important was probably the spinal tap. And it was wierd because they gave me this kind of sleeping stuff that made me . . . not really sleep, but . . . I suppose you could say doze. Anyway. It felt like only a couple seconds to me. But afterword they told me it had been about ten minutes! And then there was this horrible pain in my lower body and upper legs. It hurt sooooooo bad they had to keep me in the hospital over night to give me medicine to help me not hurt as much. the bad part was that the medicine made me throw up. eww!
Hmm, I've had so many operations, it's not even funny. I was born with a cleft lip and palate, not sure if you folks have ever heard of that. It's a split in the roof of the mouth and upper lip. I had surgery on my eyes, because one of my eyes had to be removed due to infection. I had surgery on my other eye, for what I don't remember. I had surgery on my head and nose, I don't remember because I was a baby when those surgeries were done. I also had several tubes put in my ears and a surgery to cut behind my right ear which is my bad ear. Hmm, let's see, I've had lip and palate surgery, 2 bone grafts along with the removal of 4 wisdom teeth, jaw surgery, and... I think that's about it. If I remember any more I had I'll post it up. My jaw surgery was a funny one. They gave me the anesthesia, I went to sleep and I remember hearing voices around me while I was sleeping but it wasn't for long. Then I remember the doctors calling me to wake up and I couldn't move or do anything. Not even talk. I didn't wake up until late the next day after surgery and when I woke up, I didn't know what day it was or what time it was. That's all I can remember about my surgeries. As far as doctors are concerned, I love them. I'm obsessed with doctors so if you folks ever hear or see any medical language in me, you know the deal.
I had my Tonsils and Adenoids taken out when I was little and my wisdom teeth pulled that's it.
Awwww Alison! How horrible! I had no idea the spinal tap was that bad!!! Ouch!!!! And wow, Cmitchell, that's a heck of a lot of surgeries ... and Catwoman, aaaa, hope that surgery went okay, I've heard of those being harsh! I dunno if you've ever read Boy by Roald Dahl, but if you have, you get my point. Caitlin
yeah it did hurt. aand the wierd (funny now not funny then) part about it was that it took me two hours to get from the bottom of my hospital bed to the top. a! I had to keep stopping because my legs hurt so bad. lol.
yeah it did hurt. aand the wierd (funny now not funny then) part about it was that it took me two hours to get from the bottom of my hospital bed to the top. a! I had to keep stopping because my legs hurt so bad. lol.
Hours? Honestly? Or are you exaggerating hehehe. Ouch! Poor you! XOX. Caitlin
I had my Tonsils and Adeniods at last year three days before Christmas at the age of 22
no I'm not joking. two hours to get from one end to the other. alison
yeah, allison i had several of the spinal taps and they don't feel to well. I wasn't put out though, they injected some stuff in my back that was supposed to numb it, but it didn't take and they had to try the spinal tap with very little numbing medication. it took them several attempts to finally get the spinal tap to take, i think like two or three doctors tried. i was like enough is enough. My bf was in the room with me and i think he was hurting worse than i was just watching me! lol! I also had a angeo done that disolved the blood clot on my brain, one eye surgery that i don't really remember, and hmmm my tonsils out oh and yeah, i had my wisdom teeth drilled out! I don't react well with medications, so like you allison i was sick with all of theese procedures! Yuck! lol
I had my wisdom teeth taken out three years ago. He told me I would feel tired and go to sleep when he gave me the injection. I remember him sticking me in the arm, I was looking at a picture on the wall and it got really blurry and he was talking but his words made no sense at all. Then I remember waking up and seeing the nurse walk in the room. I asked her if they had down anything yet and she told me yes, walked up and asked me to open my mouth. She started pulling gause out..I didn't even know it was there because my mouth was numb and I couldn't feel anything. It was a weird experiance.
well, I had one operation on each eye. that's it. what is a spinal tap? well those operoations were when I was just 3 nonths old.
well, I had one operation on each eye. that's it. what is a spinal tap? well those operoations were when I was just 3 nonths old.
prissy, a spinal tap is when they stick this huge needle in your spine to draw out some fluids to check for different things that could be going on in your brain or just in your spinal fluids! ouch! that's all i can say! lol
Ouwhwhwhchch that's gotta hurt, all those things! Lol Bugbug, I've never beeen knocked out for any operation that I can remember, I was for my hernia but i was like three and I just remember the bed rolling, i think i talked about that already on here.
Caitlin
yeah I've had 26 operations, 17 head operations due to my medical condition of hydrocephalus, two stomach operations, my galblatter out when I was seven and a mole removed and seven eye operations, 3 cateracts, two lense inplantsand three retina.
The first surgery I had was to uncross my eyes when I was one. I don't remember anything from that one. The next was to rebuild my esophogus and part of my stomach when I was three. I remember in my hospital room, I had one of those things with different colored stacking rings. I also remember seeing Johnny Carson and his colorful curtain on the Tonight Show. I had five teeth pulled when I was 13 and then came the three big surgeries, the ones on my face. In '97, I had a nerve taken out of the back of my leg and put in my face. In '98, they took a muscle and blood vessel out of the small of my back and put it in my face to connect it with the nerve. In '99, I had to go back because I was moving my head around too much and undid everything. I liked the nurse I had in the '98 surgery, she was really nice and she even braided my hair after me getting a bath. I didn't like having a blood transfusion and not getting enough pain meds and just crying and it was hard to say how much pain I was in and they didn't care, but my mom did and I got more pain meds after that. I also hate those puffy inflatable things they put on your legs that puff up and down to give circulation, they're so uncomfortable. The other annoyance was all the IV's in my left hand and I'm left-handed!
Well I had three ear sergeries back in the 80's, two failed ones done in October of 1981, and the second in september of 1987. They were to repare a busted right ear drumb, but the third operation that was done in January of 1989 was a success. The doctor who did the third sergery did a procedure called a tempano plastie, that was to repare the damage from the past two failed procedures, and the third was the worced of them by far, because I was so drugged that I couldn't keep down any food on the day of the operation, and to top it off, I had to fly out the very next day. Now that was not fun at all.
When I was two or three I remembered my mom was rocking me back and forth. Unfortunately she let me go and my head split on the coffee table, it was weird since all I remember feeling was a tingling like that part of my head went to sleep and everyone was going "Oh my god!" and in a minute we were in my neighbor's car going to the hospital. I remember I was in the lobby and since I had no idea why I was hear anyway I was amused by the echo and was going "Hi ha" and things like that, weird. SO we went through all these different parts of the hospital and finally got somewhere where they put me on some scratchy sheets or something and they said I was going to go to sleep or something and then I felt something cold on the back of my head and then I woke up with that bandana thing they put on your head, mom said it was stitches so that's what I thought it was. Funny how I remember practically that whole thing pretty coherently.
James
8 sugeries, 8 Cornia transplants. and don't know when the 9th might coming. sigh.
Lol James tha'ts crazy! Well I also had a moel removed once but it took all of five seconds and didn't really hurt ... I also banged my head pretty badly a few times. The worst was new Year's Eve when I was like six ... it was just after midnight and I swiveled really fast to scoop a hand ful of confedi from the ground to throw it again and I whammed my head smartly on teh side of the coffee table and got this massive bruise. Lol! You gotta remember I was six; I jsut remember lying on the floor with my mom like totally holding my head and freaking, and I was like bawling and screaming for liek an hour! Lol!
oh I just wanted to correct myself i had 2 cateract surgeries not 3, but yes i have had 26 surgeries all together .
Well I might just make my breasts smaller as soon as I lost weight. I don't understand why some people tant to make them larger, they're in my way, lol.
The only operation i can remember was when i had to have my eye lenz taken out after ia glow comer infection in the left eye. I had the same thing in my right eye when i was born also.
The only operation i can remember was when i had to have my eye lenz taken out after a glow comer infection in
the left eye. I had the same thing in my right eye when i was born also.
i have had 5 surgeries so far, soon to be 6. i had my retinas reattached in both eyes, my wisdom teeth removed, a tonsilectomy at age 21, and a tube put in my right eye to drain the pressure. all of these surgeries were from age 18 and on. i dont remember any goary details of the surgeries, accept when i woke up from my first eye surgery, my eye was as big as a golf ball and it was black. after my second eye surgery, i kept dry heaving the rest of that day and throwing up when i ate. when i had my wisdom teeth taken out, all i can remember during the surgery was the surgeons laughing, this saw sounding machine running, and the surgeons laughing as they stitched my gums up. i couldnt move or feel any of it though and i was sleeping most of that time.
my tonsilectomy had to have been the best operation. everyone was so great. all i can remember was the medicine going in my i v, and them wheeling me to the operating room and placing me on a nice heated operating table. god that was nice. in contrast, was my eye surgery where i had the tube put in my eye. that was the worst operation. they put medicine in my i v to sedate me. nothing happened. i was fully alert. so as they were wheeling me to the operating room, i was crying because i was afraid that the anesthesia would not work. when they got me to the operating room, the nurse told me to scoot back on the operating table. it got to where half of my upper body was off of the table and my head was resting on this round head rest. god i was afraid that i was going to fall off of that table. and then the next thing i know, i was talking and then i was asleep. i will post about my experiences of my upcoming enucleation when i recover from it. i am having the surgery on the fourth of march.
Do to my disease, septo optic displasia, There is no wall dividing my brain. My brain used to fill with fluid and I'd get these painfull headaches. When I was a year old, I had a shunt put in my head that pumped out the fluid. The shunt malfunctioned. When I was 2, I had the shunt replaced. It has worked ever since. I had my appindix removed when I was 8. I've been in and out of hospitals since I was 5 due to stomach problems. I had a few scopes ran and one of them found an ulser. I was in the hospital 3 times when I was 5, twice when I was 8, once when I was 10, 11, and 14.
Wo! Well, I was in hospital four times including the two weeks when I was first born. I went in again at 6 months for a Corneal graft which actually worked for just 8 weeks or so, then I was left with just light and colour perception again, but methinks it's coming back again, I had my very first op on my mouth when I was six days old to try and fix the hole in the roof or fistula and stop it interfering with my airway, so I was quite a sick baby in SCBU for the next 8 days or so till I was allowed home for the first time. After the Corneal graft then, when I was about three, I had some work done on both my jaw and my right eye socket because there was the possibility that I could have a glass eye fitted when I was six, but this never came to pass, however, I did have yet another surgery on my mouth then, but I was a bit young then to understand what that was all about. I went under the knife again when I was nine for a bone graft. Everyone just told me, no matter how many questions I asked about why this would happen when I was older, but they said I needed the bone graft, where they took quite a substancial chunk of bone from my hip and fixed it under the skin right at the back of my mouth where one of my wisdom teeth is now,
"to stop your teeth going wobbly when you're older". God, the pain was unforgetably intolerable when I came round afterwards, then, as is the nature with any cut made below my face, it reacted badly to both the plasters and this anticeptic spray we put on for a while till the stitches came out.
I had another 4 years break then, till I had the surgery on my nose, a kind of plastic surgery job really just to make it look more like a nose instead of a huge uggly protrusion on my face as it had two bones, one of which of course, shouldn't've been there, so that was taken out and my nose was given a lift and set in plaster of paris for a few weeks, but then, that cut went ceptic, so I had to it was off to the GP for me and they just put one of their big plasters on my forehead where the stitches had basically disolved too soon and things got a bit bloody. I can still feel where I had my nose job today, all the evidence of stitches and most of the V-shaped cut the surgeon made just over 11 years ago.
Two years later, I had another op on my lips, where the plan was that they'd be grafted together with a skin graft for three weeks, during which time I would have to drink soups and any other liquidised puree things available, through a straw, but bearly 2 weeks after that, the graft had died, so I had to have another op to repare that the followingyear. The brilliant surgeons at the Radcliffe Infirmary Chraneofacial unit in Oxford, then decided they'd take some cartilage from clost to where I had my hip done at the top of my leg to construct a new top lip and they did what's called an abbey skin flap. The cut at the top of my leg went ceptic also, so when I first started at Loughborough, I was still having loads of dressing changed every day till that healed up. I'm planning on having further surgery on my nose to reshape it some more later on.
Jen.
I had some lazar optic stuff done to me when I was under ayear old to try to corect my Retinopathy of Prematurity, but it was unsuccessful.
When I was seventeen, I had to have my appendix removed, and then a year or so ago, I had my wisdom teeth removed. god, eating nothing but liquids while the stitches dissolved really sucked.
Well, i've had a tonsilectomy and a laporoscopy. When I had my tonsils out, I was 5. I was really scared, so my mum bought me a teddy bear to come with me to theatre. When I woke up after surgery, I was super sick... Any time I moved, or was moved, I threw up. The pain was excrutiating, but my family fed me ice cream to numb it.
The best thing about it was that, when I was savi enough to realise it, I found out that the surgeon, or one of his staff, had cut my teddy open, and had given him stitches to match mine!
awwwe. that is sweet
Oo! My mum also had to have her wisdom teeth removed as there wasn't room for them in her mouth, but because of the way my whole bloody face formed, I have room for my own wisdom teeth, three of which have come right through now and one's still lurking under the surface somewhere. I can feel it there, I think, but it doesn't seem to want to come through just yet.
Jen.
The chances of my fourth wisdom tooth coming in are extremely slim.
Wow gen, why did you have to have so many surgeries on your face? My sister broke her ankles at the growth plate, so pins were inserted temporarily to hold the bones in place. She was 6 at that time and was in excruciating pain! Thank god she's just fine now!
Basically, my face was totally mutilated when I was born, so the first op I had at 6 days was to try and fix everything, especially the hole in the roof of my mouth which went right back in to my airway, so I could both breathe and feed, but there was no way I could suck, so mum's cousin finally came to the rescue when I was around 7 weeks old and told mum about these special bottles with spoons on the end as oppose to teats/nipples. Up until then, I'd been fed off of a teaspoon. The next few ops were just straightening my bottom jaw, trying to enlarge my eye socket, the bone graft which apparently stops my teeth from wobbling all over, another op to stitch up my cleft pallet, the op to fix my nose and the three ops to rebuild my lips.
Jen.
Wow! It's amazing after all that, you can talk!
Hey katie, that's not very nice! While we're all glad Jenn pulled through her surgeries ... That's like someone saying, "Wow, it's amazing that after so many eye operations, you still live without sight." Absolutely rediculous!
Anyway, I have a friend who told me after her wisdom teeth were removed, the doctor told her mom she would either be crying or laughing hysterically due to the anaesthesia. (By she, I meant the patient.) For the rest of the day all her mom heard was the phraise, 'I want brandon." (No, she is not a zoner, and no her BF is not one too, so no need to speculate on who this person is.) I was a sobbing mess too. wish I had been laughing at nothing in particular while the stuff was wearing off. lmfao!
It's OK Joanne. I guess I know what she meant. In fact, all sixteen surgeries, as well as making me look better than I did, physically, helped me to learn to talk, plus numerous speech therapy sessions when I was little as I had terrible trouble forming almost any words properly before I was about 8 years old, then I had braces which undid some of all the good work I'd put in to learning to speak both properly and clearly, so I was rather put off about that, but, just when I have some time to myself, I just think back to everything Mrs Tripp taught me in our speech therapy sessions and practice the exercises all the time.
Jen.
yeah when i woke up from the anesthesia when i had my wisdom teeth removed, i was crying horribly. nobody informed me that i would cry.
I'm not sure if this counts but when I was about ten I chipped a tooth on a pole on the school playground. The next day I had to go to the dentist and I had to have novacane and after that go back to school for quire rehearsal. The novacane hadn't worn off yet and I sounded like a toatal moron
lolol that sucks
now i have this enucleation surgery to add to my list. honestly it went really really great. the surgical team was wonderful to me. they let my mother in the room during the preparations and she had me laughing so hard that i was relaxed. i am in alot of pain if i do not stick to my pain killer regimine though. my mother gave me her room to sleep in during the duration of my stay. i have a really comfortable queen sized bed to myself, sattelite tv, and a bathroom in this room.
Three eye surgeries, all failed. One C-section to have my son last November, and a month later, a galbladder removal. I have cerebral palsy, so after the anesthesia wore off from both the galbladder and the C-section, I was incredibly jerky and spastic, for a couple of days. It made the surgery sites very very painful, everytime my body jerked which happened like, every two seconds or so. They had to seriously drug me up, and even that didn't stop the jerking.