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Originally Posted by Webgoji
It turns out I may have a hernia in my lower abdomen. The surgery itself doesn't bother me since I've had much worse surgeries in the past. What I'm concerned about is the recovery time.
People are saying that I won't be able to work for 6 weeks after the surgery, but if I can't work for that long, we'll end up out on the street. I'm a laboratory technician so I spend all my time on my feet moving samples around.
Is it true that this surgery is THAT traumatic? (Faaaar more traumatic than removing my appendix ... I was back at work the next Monday.) Should I just wait until it becomes incarcerated and deal with it then?
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Please DO NOT allow it to become incarcerated!! If you strangle your bowel, it will die, become necrotic, and it will be far more serious. I was an OR nurse, and one night got called in for a man who allowed his hernia to appear as if he had a large size flesh colored tomato on his belly button....there was bowel in there, they had to do a bowel resection, but thank God, he caught it before the bowel lost it's blood supply.
WHere is it? Some hernia procedures they can do w/ a laparascope, even put mush in thru the scope.
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Kirby