what surgery's have you had?

[Remus]

Right temporal labectomy, over a decade past. I'll let you google that one. I was given the option to be either awake or asleep during the major cuts, although I needed to be awake for the first half or so because the docs had to prod me and make sure nothing important was cut. Remember that scene from Saw 3? It's an odd experience being on the receiving end. I came out better for it, no side effects outside of a "?" shaped scar where there once were thick staples. Getting those yanked out was fun - my mother, a pair of pliers, and a good bit of yanking and pulling.

 

[Lord Kloo]

Circumcision due to it constricting the flow of urine

Mole on my face cut and burned off due to possible cancer threat

Thats about it, I'm rather boring

 

[Zeldias]

Tremendous hernia in my groin had my balls looking like a single balloon.

That's all I remember going under the knife for.

 

[GeneralFungi]

I was in a car crash at around the age of 3. I don't remember the exact details, but apparently it was my first near death experience. Not quite as adorable as a kids first birthday. I was in a car seat. It was not properly buckled in so the seat was loose.

If my mother had double checked and made sure that I was strapped in properly I would have been crushed. The fact it was loose prevented me from taking the full brunt of a car being flung into a ditch. Dead. On the spot.

As it was I got some glass in my forehead and a couple of nasty bruises. There might have been other injuries but nobody but my parents remember the details. Luckily that was the only time I was ever sent into the emergency room. And luckily I was too young to be really traumatized by the experience. With the exception of a few faint images of the hospital and ambulance it's completely behind me know.

I still carry the scars, though. They're mostly on my forehead with one on my cheek. They've been a part of me for so long that I sometimes forget that they're scars at all.

 

[pandorum]

Tremendous hernia in my groin had my balls looking like a single balloon.

That's all I remember going under the knife for.

Can I ask how you get a hernia of the bollock?

 

[thehorror2]

Wisdom teeth removal, nbd. Discovering that they'd left a gaping shard of bone poking around in the gum line that they had to go back and file down? Slightly b-er "d". Also, got the inside of my nose cauterized, due to all the nosebleeds I'd been having. Anesthetic wore off about 1/3 of the way through. Most painful thing I've ever experienced, with the added bonus of being able to smell the inside of my nose literally burning.

 

[nifedj]

You know what, I think may have won the thread.

My spine is partially titanium. Due to severe scoliosis, meaning that my spine was curved at about 65 degree in the middle, meant that I had to have surgery to straighten the spine out, and have titanium rods put in to keep it that way. I can no longer bend my spine at all.

Beat that.

I also have a severe scoliosis, though not quite as bad as that (45 degrees, which I think is the borderline for "severe"). I would get the same operation as you (or similar) except that I don't feel any pain from it, much to the surprise of my doctor. Also, my spinal cord is tethered and no scan has been able to work out why, so the operation would carry a 10-20% risk of paralysis, among other possible issues. Nobody knows if it will cause me pain in the future, but it seems too risky an operation to perform on someone who's asymptomatic.


That's the surgery I haven't had, now for the surgery I have had:

I was born with oesophageal atresia and tracheoesophageal fistula, which means my oesophagus wasn't connected to my stomach and my oesophagus and trachea were connected (they're not supposed to be). I had to be rushed to a different hospital with the appropriate specialist team and receive life-saving surgery. I spent a month in intensive care afterward, my lung collapsed at one point. Eventually I recovered and got to go home. The cut was made across my abdomen, but because of how tissue moves as you grow the scar now runs under my right arm onto my back. I have a couple of white marks on my chest where they put the tubes in as well.

 

[Kinitawowi]

Adenoids and four iterations of grommets. Most people think my ears still don't work properly.

 

[IGetNoSlack]

1 cavity, some tubes in my ear when I was 3, and two right tendon transfers, on October 12, 2006 and July 24, 2012. I have (an extremely mild* case of) cerebral palsy, so there's that.

There was also one self-performed "surgery" where I had to rip out a tooth because another was growing in front of it.

*As in whatever happened to cause it happened in the first trimester of pregnancy.

 

[Random Argument Man]

Removed the Wisdom teeth, repaired my thumb which was 2/3 of the bone was cut because of a freak band-saw accident, repaired a fractured wrist and removed rock remnants that
were stuck in my skin/skull (to young to remember).

With the exception of the wisdom teeth, I'd rather not have those accidents in my life. But then, that what's happens when you don't pay attention to important details.

 

[bandman232]

First was when I was about 3, I had a deformed left thumb with another one that tried to grow, so it was removed and tubes were put in my ears. My second was when I was 4, I had an appendicitis which turned horrible: my appendix had drited into my large intestine and then ruptured, causing 3 feet or so to die. It took 2 weeks of near constant vomiting for me to be sent to the emergency room for emergency surgery, since a lower GI was inconclusive. I had 3 feet of intestine removed and spent nearly a month in the hospital recovering. My third was when I was 11. The tubes that were inserted cause problems, one punctured an ear canal and the other created a polyp, and both required surgery. It was an out patient job, but I got to wear a sweet bandage turban around, and sat home playing my N64 for around a week recovering. Nothing other than that really, though an honorable mention was fracturing my wrist after punching a guy in the face, and a broken nose from wrestling.

 

[cindamyricks]

Mine was the laser surgery! Was darn scared and the mere thought of surgery freaked me out. Got it done at Evergreen Eye Care, Toronto. I was prejudiced about surgeries and was scared to the roots before surgery. But the experience was cool since they were very gentle with me. I don't have any issues with my eyes now. I have heard of surgery failures and was scared but this one was perfect!

 

[Angie7F]

four wisdom teeth, lasik, removed a more from upper lip.
I enjoy having surgery that is by choice...

 

[Stasisesque]

The only surgery I've had was having my wisdom teeth taken out.

That was an interesting adventure.

Maybe one day I will have lazer eye surgery done that way I don't have to keep spending so much money on my glasses. That and I look forward to the day when I can stop feeling like an idiot when I forget where I put my glasses when I take them off, and they're on my head. >.>

I had to start wearing glasses for driving recently do I know the feeling.
my girlfriend, when I met her had awfull eyesight. She got laserd and now has great eyesight!

also I'm left scratching my head at people that wear glasses as a fashion accessory :/

I wear glasses as a fashion accessory. I need glasses, so they provide a function as well, but I have three pairs in different styles (one pair is red!) because I want to look nice.

The fact is, glasses look good on me, I don't look right without them. If I did ever get laser eye surgery I would probably then wear glasses for fashion.

 

[Tiger King]

I haven't had any "surgery is", whatever that is.

But I have had kidney surgery.

a 'surgery is' is what happens when you start a topic after having a few too many drinks, combined with poor english skills.

how are your kidneys now?

 

[Sansha]

I've had male breast cancer removed, and just this year I had an aggressive infection sliced out.

I've found that general anesthetic, while I'm recovering, makes me very flirty and charming, especially with the nurses.

 

[Shadow-Phoenix]

I've had 4 teeth removed, braces, 2 fillings and 3 surgeries on my private parts in total (first was medical and last two were my own choice/medical).

 

[Xisin]

The valve connecting my stomach to my esophagus was severely damaged throughout my childhood. Apparently, it was never really working correctly and doctors don't tend to check for something like that in children since acid reflux tends to be an acquired problem. My pediatrician told my parents I was probably faking it to get out of school >.> So took ten years to get my surgery. The actual operation felt like nothing, was actually in less pain afterwards. Basically they created a stop gap, makeshift valve out of tissue from my stomach. Plus my surgeon's name is Dr. Bueno! Can't beat that.

Oh I've also had my wisdom teeth removed, but that went really easily as well. Almost no pain or swelling.

 

[IndomitableSam]

Just an emergency appendectomy. Don't be an 11-year-old girl who's recentley started her period while it's also halloween, as they'll blame it on cramps or too much candy until it's almost too late and they've got to cut you open wide to suck the poison out of you.

I do usually win at scar contests, though. ... Against people my age. My mother will always win, though, for older people. She's probably had over a dozen surgeries for different things, and she's covered in massive scars.

 

[BleedingPride]

Oh geez, there's a couple to explain here.

1.) I once had an extreme pain in my side. When the doctors did their scans and what not, they saw I had a abnormally sized appendix, so they gave me an appendectomy thinking that it was appendicitis. Turns out it was pneumonia and I just had a large appendix. Who needs it anyway?

2.) A couple of my infant teeth had their roots wrapped around the adult ones underneath, and refused to come out. So, I had removed the two of them removed so the orthodontists could move forward in straightening my teeth.

3.) My tonsils were giving me a lot of trouble with sleep apnea, so my parents had them removed because they were worried. I know that seems a bit extreme but I would wake up gasping for air due to suffocation.

4.) This is the one that had the most effect on my life. When I was a few months old, some extra blood vessels started growing on my forehead. They had hoped it would swell down, but it had gotten to the point where I had a golf-ball sized blood red lump on my forehead that was only getting bigger. The doctor's said that it'd eventually go back down on its own, but not without fucking up my hairline, my eyes, and leaving me pretty much disfigured. So they had it removed. What's left of it is a zig-zag shaped scar on my forehead, which has been the cause for much Harry Potter teasing in my lifetime (however I was born before the first publication, so suck it JK Rowling!) however looking back at the possible alternative some teasing isn't so bad. So I guess you would call that some form of plastic surgery (?) anywho, that's all from me.