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Old Feb 28, 2020, 12:27 PM
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((( SorryShaped))) I am very sorry and I believe you in that others are being insensitive to just how difficult this kind of surgery really is. Experiencing this kind of lack of sensitivity can most definitely be very triggering. I had a very intrusive surgery myself as I almost died due to suffering an appendix rupturing and leaking toxins into my body cavity. I had to be completely opened up so they could irrigate all the toxins out of my body cavity. I woke up from surgery very confused due to the hours of surgery and anesthesia. Then I had to learn how bad things really were and see how horrible my stomach looked where they had completely cut me open and I had staples in this horrible huge incision from just below my breasts all the way down with this ugly drain. It really was a very long healing journey for me to slowly recover from. I had been poked by so many needles and had to endure a lot of pain as well. When they took the morphine drip away without warning me, the pain meds I was given did not last very long and it was hell waiting until I could get another dose.

Unfortunately, people do not understand what it means to go through a major surgery, they only can respect it if they themselves have gone through it.
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