Good luck @bobrek . A mentor had his hip replaced back a while back and he gets along fairly well with it these days.
Wow! They kept me in for weeks with my penile enlargement implant. Every female nurse and doctor had to come by and test it. (I was pretty out of it, there might have been some dudes in there).
Hahaha. What a treasure trove. bobrek coming home from surgery earlier today. Does anyone know why it was Six Million Dollar Man? It didn't bother me as a little kid, but six seems kinda arbitrary.
I read this without the exclamation point at first and thought "well, that's a bit embarrassing ..." No kidding. lol. I had a major operation in the middle of last year and they sent me home after about a day. Yanked the tubes out and said... "go on". I was like... wait... that's it? But I walked out of there under my own power and felt ok other than surgical staple pain which was nothing. It really is amazing with some of this stuff nowadays. However, I'm wondering if some of it has to do with insurance and them not wanting to keep you around and/or they need the bed for others.
Maybe he's always wanted to pee in a car. I think insurance is a big part of it, but my nurse cousin says patients face a lot better outcomes if they don't spend multiple days in a hospital (i.e. catch infections or other bugs, don't get much sleep, etc.)
It's amazing what you don't mind talking about as you get older. Like when I got out of surgery and tried to pee for the first time. They said "let us know if you see any blood or anything". I was like... "ok, that sounds like a legitimate request". What they didn't tell me about was the "dingaling farts" after they removed the catheter. Talk about an Exorcist moment. I was like... is that supposed to happen? Quite possibly the scariest thing I've ever encountered while using the restroom. If you don't count that time I walked into a truck stop bathroom in Oklahoma and thought I'd entered the bowels of Hell (literally). I thought I'd have to be decontaminated after leaving there, but that's another story...
I could start a whole thread on hemorrhoids. I think as we get older we realize most everyone we know have run into similar problems. Also, as I get older, I just don't care.
Yeah, but also be careful about that, too, I guess. Some people don't care about talking about the issues, but a lot of people stop caring about the actual issue and it worsens into something a lot worse. They'll avoid stuff like colonoscopies and well... you could be flirting with disaster there.
