[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?

[kirby777]

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?

HI-
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.

PM me..

,
Kirby

[hamster-bamster]

weird... my ex H had that surgery and was running several days after it. It was a laparascopic surgery though, and not a major open surgery.

[Webgoji]

It turns out I have a Bilateral Direct Inguinal Hernia. In other words, my guts are dropping out the bottom. I will be going in for surgery tomorrow morning. The really good news is that I'll be back at work next week!



As I figured, it's going to be nowhere near as traumatic as my appendectomy so all will be good in the world.

[kirby777]

Good Luck!

I am happy you will not be missing all of the work you thought!

Best wishes for a speedy recovery. And if they are doing general anethesia, ask for "emend"....it is a pre-op anti-nausea pill.

[SilverNeurotic]

Best of luck!

[hamster-bamster]

one cannot remove the appendix laparoscopically, as far as I gather. so it is a major surgery.

best of luck and keep us posted!

[Fresia]

Wishing you a speeding recovery!

[Webgoji]

Hey everyone, I'm back! That ... was a thing. I had only been home a few days before I developed a NASTY upper respiratory infection. I had to limp back to the doctor to get that taken care of. He had to put me on a hydrocodone cough medicine because I was coughing up infected grossness violently enough that there was concern I could blow out my newly repaired hernia. The fever only broke last Friday.

Needless to say, the hernia operation wasn't so bad by itself. Doubled up with the really bad upper respiratory infection though made it quite a horrible week last week.