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Post by Clipper on Aug 12, 2019 22:34:37 GMT -5
Keep our friend Ralph in your thoughts and prayers tomorrow. He is having surgery in the morning. He will be home either tomorrow or the next day but any surgery has it's risks.
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Post by clarencebunsen on Aug 13, 2019 9:19:01 GMT -5
Yes
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2019 9:29:37 GMT -5
Yes why surgery
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Post by Clipper on Aug 13, 2019 10:03:10 GMT -5
He had some sort of hernia that is not just the run of the mill. They are doing the surgery with that Da Vinci robotic device. Should be a quick recovery. He said last night that he would be allowed to drive and walk normally by tomorrow. Just severely restricted to lifting no more than 5 lbs for the foreseeable future until healed completely.
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Post by BHU on Aug 13, 2019 14:54:16 GMT -5
Will do.....
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Post by Clipper on Aug 13, 2019 15:22:02 GMT -5
He is home and all went well. He will probably check in here later.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2019 15:34:14 GMT -5
Ask him if he has been having any dreams about the Mona Lisa.
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Post by Ralph on Aug 16, 2019 13:30:09 GMT -5
Well, it's been a "trip" to say the least. I've been fighting abdominal issues, weird pains and stuff, for the last couple years. Tore an internal lateral oblique and a shit ton of other muscles. Primarily during my job, but I'm sure winter storm Stella didn't help much either. The best way I could describe it would be to have an alien living in there armed with a fork, and the alien is making his way from the left side to the right side over that long period of time and scraping the fork up against the inside as he's traveling. Sort of like when a woman is pregnant and you see/feel the fetus move their foot/hand across the abdomen.
A miracle if you are a pregnant women, not so much for anyone else. I haven't posted or said much about it here because, to be truthful, it was far to weird and hard to explain. I've laid in bed and watched lumps form and move across my chest just like a friggin` alien living in there! They tell me that was a small hiatal hernia I have. BWAHAHA! If you say so! Funny scrapping feelings, more akin to something actually tearing, sort of like ripping a perforated index card out of a magazine one little hole at a time, from left to right........over a year or so. My treasured "six pack" was looking more like a pan of old cinnamon rolls than anything else. And I still had to go to work every day. Not fun.
This past year they put me through the wringer with endoscopy, colonoscopy, ultrasounds and CAT scans.
All amounting to nothing more than a very small umbilical hernia with what the think is a piece of fat caught in it. For those of you who know me, I don't have enough fat to fill a thimble and they figure it is a piece of fascia that runs between the muscles.
Anyway.......sooner or later it had to be fixed as it will only get bigger over time, and we figured better to do it when I'm 60 then when I'm 70. So Tuesday I went in for a Laparoscopic Exploratory Umbilical Hernia surgery via da Vinci robot, starring Dr. Joseph Hedrick in the lead role from Dr. Max's office at MVHS. I made it and was home by about 2:00pm. Recovery so far has been far from fun. My once flat tummy looks like I ate a couple bags of popcorn and drank a gallon of milk........went from a 29" waist to 35", that's slowly going away, may take a few days or more for the gas they pump in there to dissipate. I also look like someone beat me with a bat! I had a small surface hematoma that one of the attending surgeons said would disperse in a day or two.....it did, right under the skin.  But done is done, now I just have to get better, and that is happening a bit more every day. I've only been home for really two full days so I am probably expecting too much too soon. It is certainly as different as night from day when compared to my inguinal hernia surgery 12 years ago. So here I am for the next month at least and I should be visiting here much more often.
Thank you Clipper for your concerns, and thank y'all for the thoughts and prayers.
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Post by Ralph on Aug 16, 2019 13:34:53 GMT -5
Here's what I look like right now. I think they gave me a Brazilian wax job while I was napping. I had a perfectly FLAT stomach when I went in.  |
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Post by clarencebunsen on Aug 16, 2019 13:42:53 GMT -5
Wow.
What a lot to go through but it sounds like you are on the mend now.
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Post by BHU on Aug 16, 2019 14:01:32 GMT -5
Well you have a speedy recovery, Ralph. Just kick back, enjoy the weather the best you can & heal up.
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Post by Ralph on Aug 16, 2019 14:10:21 GMT -5
One day at a time.  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2019 19:16:08 GMT -5
Well I am glad all went well for you and you are on your way to healing. I heard they fill you up with gas when that machine in used for surgery. How does the gas get out!
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Post by Ralph on Aug 17, 2019 1:05:50 GMT -5
It "disperses" within 2-4 days.......or can last as long as 24 days. I don't know how it gets out, I just wish it would!
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