what surgery's have you had?

[xmbts]

I've had teeth removed, tubes implanted in my lungs, some incisions here and there for muscular damage and ruptured organs. I'll have to go about finding an actual list. >.>

 

[chinangel]

well I'm planning on getting myself gender re-assignment surgery, aka a sex change. does that count?

 

[Dirge Eterna]

I've had an appendectomy and a spinal tap, which i'll count as a surgery because it fucking sucked. I dodged a frequent bullet in this thread in that I never had wisdom teeth.

Just my wisdom teeth. I was fortunate to get them done before I went to boot camp, because they knocked me out completely and I was able to rest comfortably afterward. The guys in boot camp who have theirs pulled don't get knocked out (just numbed up, so they don't feel much, but still) and while they get rest time afterward, it's not nearly as much as I had. Now, the military way of doing it isn't cruel or unnecessarily painful, but like most military anythings, they try to spend as little money on it as possible (and that was before the budget cuts).

As for mine, that was the only time I've ever been rendered unconscious in my life, and it was pretty strange to experience. I don't recall ever being in that much pain afterward though; the worst part was just not being able to eat hard food for a while and the feeling of string in my gums.

I had all 4 taken out at my first duty assignment. The Air Force won't let you do on a TDY or combat deployment with them still intact. No pain or anything from them before that, they cut out 1 and had to break another. I was put out but woke up in the middle to see the dentist with a chisel and hammer. Same day I was eating red beans and rice and never had any issues at all, never took the pain meds after the 1st day. Had a root canal a few months ago, no biggie really.

Non dental- Broke all 4 fingers on my left hand in a wrestling match at school, had to have them pinned together. Broke the side of my face and right orbit as well as having my jaw wired shut from getting hit by a guy with brass knuckles. Had to have reconstructive surgery and they had to take out my right eye to remove bone chips behind it, they were able to put it back with just a little damage to my optic nerve and muscles. Broke 3 ribs at a concert, I was on the rail and the crowd basically pushed everyone forward and it fractured 3 ribs in a splintering fashion and not a clean break. One of them developed a bone spur that kept getting the flesh around it infected so they put a metal tube over it after they ground it down so that it wouldn't come back again. Shattered my left kneecap into too many pieces when I was 8 riding my bike. My front tire went into a pothole and the whole bike pivoted on it basically, knee hit the edge of the hole and pop that was it. So I have a cadaver kneecap there. Right leg was practically rebuilt from a Humvee accident in the Air Force. My foot was basically turned 180degrees and the ligaments, muscles and tendons either tore or hyper extended. Entire knee joint was replaced with a titanium knee replacement. My right foot kicks out about 15degrees to the right when I walk from not everything lining up but at least I can walk. Skin graft on my left shoulder from crashing on my bike and grinding all the skin and muscle off down to my clavicle. Burn on my left palm from touching a hot potbelly stove when I was a kid, had to have the skin abraded off and then a skin graft from my ass lol. Broke the little knobby bone off my left wrist and it was basically pushed back into place and taped up. Healed badly and started to damage my nerves in my hand so I had ti re broken and scoped out.

my god! i think you are winning this topic in terms of amount of injuries!

i was awake when they took my wisdom out. bit weird seeing all that blood and having someone chisel away at your face and no amount of injections could cover up the pain when they got to the root.

also is dirge eterna a warhamer 40k reference?

Lol that doesent even cover the non surgical injuries like broken bones, lacerations, scrapes, burns and stuff that I had. And yes it is, I am a big fan of the novels.

 

[Vegosiux]

Three so far, under general anesthesia on all of them. Two things about that; one is you're going to go "Count down from ten? Right, as if I'll fall asleep that fast", and the first thing in your mind when you wake up is "Six, five..."; and second, speaking of waking up, that part sucks.

First, when I was like 4 or 5 I had surgery on my thyroid.

Then when I was 16, I broke my arm and after a week of having the cast up the X-ray showed the bone has shifted out of position, so they had to re-break and realign the damn thing, and stick metal needles into it to keep it from moving again. Having those needles pulled out was one of the weirdest sensations of my life - didn't hurt one bit, but the though of the doctor pulling a bunch of fancy stainless nails straight out of my bone with a pair of pliers was creepy.

Third, the one that kind of fucked up my early to mid-twenties, I had intestinal surgery that had me high on painkillers for a while (who would have thought digesting innocuous things you're used to eating could be so damn painful), knocked me out for a full semester at uni and things kind of went downhill from there with too much stuff piling on afterwards.

Here's to hoping that was the last of it.

 

[Saitexx]

I had to have a rib removed, they take it out through your armpit!,
I had to have my tongue sewn back on when I was a kid due to a nasty bike crash that broke my jaw.

alot of people are saying wisdom teeth, I didn't realise that was considered surgery.

Wisdom teeth out and a dog almost ripped out my eye. Had to have my eyelid sown back up. Still got a slight scar on my eye ball from that.

The more I think about it the more I realise natural selection will in the future grant us bulletproof eyelids.

Sounds like a nasty bike crash! >-<

 

[antidonkey]

So far I've had a total of three surgeries.

1) Wisdom teeth. This was back in 93/94. They took all 4 four out. The bottom ones were almost through my gums but the top ones were still very much in my jaw. They got drilled out which was odd since I wasn't asleep for the procedure. All went well and I healed up just fine without any complications.
2) Gall Bladder. A few years ago I had to have my gall bladder taken out. Seems it was filled with stones that caused all sorts of distress when they would get lodged in a duct. The procedure was quick. I was in around 8 and out at 12. Just in time for the lunch rush at the nearby Subway. That sucked as I was sore and starving. Healed up quickly with only 4 small scars to show for it placed around my abdomen.
3) Broken Wrist. At the end of January this year, I wrecked my Harley. Somewhere between the time of the bike hitting the SUV and my body hitting the SUV, I broke my right wrist in two places and fractured my left clavicle. The wrist required them to go in and slap on a titanium plate. I just finished up rehab for it. A huge amount of movement has returned but I should get more with time. It left a 3 inch scar that will probably get psychologists curious about me as it looks like a suicide attempt. Luckily, it's slightly off center....plus I have pictures of the xrays handy should the situation ever come up. That plate looks like a broken fork depending on the angle you view it from.

I'm sure more will come in the future but that all I have for now. I leave you with this bit of advice......Don't break your wrist. It totally sucks ass. Especially if you injure the opposite side of your body, too.

 

[purplecactus]

I had my face partially remodeled...

Basically, my jaws were insanely out of alignment with each other and my top one was way too small. So after a handful of years of the doctors trying to adjust it all without surgery, I had my first major operation when I hit eighteen. My jaws were broken, reset, and realigned. My nose was also redone as a kind of bonus. I'd always had trouble breathing out of it, but it had never been considered a real problem. The surgeon spoke to me beforehand and asked if I'd like it fixed, because he could most likely do it.

And last year I had the debris of that operation removed from my face. They'd put some metal in there to hold it all together, but that had some pretty crappy side affects in extreme weather. Or, you know, whenever it got a little chilly.

Aside from that, nothing. I've got my tonsils, all my wisdom teeth, my appendix... all that sort of thing.

 

[Use_Imagination_here]

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.

Look on the bright side. You're now slightly closer than 99.9 percent of people on the planet to being wolverine.

Comic book nerds would give a piece of their souls for that.

OT: Nothing. I have never had any surgery.

All you lucky bastards with your life threatening injuries and permanent disabilities and disfigurations.

I hate all of you.

I did break my skull once but they only gave me stitches and drugs the bastards.

Or maybe they did give me surgery. I was like 4, fucked if I know.

Had another hairline fracture when I was 6, and then another one at 14. Never broken or came close to breaking any other bones, just the skull.

 

[Eliam_Dar]

A few years ago in a car accident I broke my right hand... bad.. I went through 5 different surgeries to reconstruct it, including a bone transplant (the phalanx between my index finger and my palm has been removed and replaced by someone else bone). It took around 2 years to recover most of the mobility (my right index finger is still a bit limited, and I cannot fully close my hand) and I haven't fully recovered the sensation on that hand.
Due to this accident I had to quit martial arts (I practiced full-contact) and many other sports which I practiced. On the upside, as a therapy I started to learn electric bass

Also an emergency appendectomy. Not really a problem, except that I had a small post-operatory problem, and I was in bed for 20 days.