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ailuzhin
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01 Sep 2017, 6:24 pm

Pilonidal Sinus. Spent three days in hospital, one drain in each side, and a huge scar.

A particularly unpleasant experience.



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01 Sep 2017, 6:34 pm

lumpectomy in my left breast. it was a little scary because i guess its growth pattern presented like a type of malignant tumor. after removal it was tested at the mayo clinic and it turned out to be atypical but benign.
the surgery was fine since i was put under for it. it was also in a small building right outside of the hospital rather than inside the main hospital building, and the staff were quite accommodating. the pain afterwards was bad but nothing i couldn't handle. i didn't like how i felt on the pain medication they gave me--it barely dulled the pain and basically just made me irritable and sleepy.
i like the scar it left.



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02 Sep 2017, 2:41 am

Sarahsmith wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
Sarahsmith wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
^^^gosh :o I hope you eventually heal from that.


Well I had a few tests done and they said I was fine. But my chest feels tight and circulation not as good. I think it was an artery or something screwed up from intentionaly breathing wrong for 5 years. It just doesnt feel right in there.

hope it's nothing like pulmonary hypertension.


I hope so too. There's no swelling in my hands and feet but last night I could barely catch my breath and all I was just doing was laying there. Not a good sign.

I hope you get that last point checked out ASAP.



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15 Sep 2017, 6:37 pm

I have had so many surgeries done on my ears I can't remember how many times it was done. As a kid it was mostly for ear tubes, but it feels like I had to get new ones put back in every month when the old ones fell out. I was very traumatized by the experiences, primarily due to PONV. I also had my tonsils out at age four and my wisdom teeth out when I was 13 or 14. When I was in my early teens I had to get overnight surgery for a chronic ear/mastoid infection and I by then I had emetophobia so bad I was more terrified of PONV than anything else about the surgery. I hope I never have to get surgery ever again, but I probably will one day, and it will be even worse because it'll either be because of something life-threatening or because I'm older now. Or I'll be put on highly addictive painkillers. People once accused my own mother (wrongly) of being a drug addict when she needed painkillers after her appendix was removed only two days before Easter a few years. Why do these things always seem to happen around a holiday? :(

I've heard of people being addicted to cosmetic surgery, and I can't understand at all how they can be addicted to something like that. The way they go on as if it's no worse than getting a haircut. 8O



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15 Sep 2017, 6:43 pm

some lucky folks have a very high tolerance for pain. those people don't even feel a hypodermic needle. bee stings are just little pinches for them.



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15 Sep 2017, 6:46 pm

Surgery to correct a lazy eye and a hole in the ear drum. Never had a broken bone and generly get sick once every few years no joke. So overall I feel like I came out ahead.



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15 Sep 2017, 6:49 pm

Brain surgery.
I'm not sure if they put it back in again afterwards.


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