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No Parking Zone! => Off Topic, Off Colour, and non-motorcycle related => Topic started by: alans1100 on April 12, 2013, 09:59:51 AM
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Written sometime after 5pm yesterday.......looks like I forgot to post it......S**t happens.
I'm sure the RN (registered nurse) I had this afternoon might be booked if they speed checked wheel chair operators.
After a somewhat nervous (if that's the right word) evening last night I awoke this morning to face a minor umbilical hernia (belly button). I've had it for 30 years but in the last two it has slowly got worse. I arrived at the Peterborough hospital at the ungodly hour of 7:30 am and slept walked to the Nurses station in the ward. (Boring details edited out)
At 9:45am I was transported sedately to the operating theater where my last memory is of a sedative being pumped into the drip thing in my left wrist. I was out to it before the anesthetic was told later. ..........Made it back to the ward about 11:30 after waking in recovery. Just as well they don't have 4 wheel independent steering in cars as I think the nurse just missed hitting the wall one or two times.
No major pain to speak of but I'm aware of the wound because of the discomfort. I was out of bed at 3:15pm for a grovelling slightly elevated pain level walk to the loo. Not to bad, I could manage the ride home a little later. I had Oxycodone about half an hour earlier as I planned to leave hospital once that kicked in...........
At 4pm it was a wheel chair ride ( I'm sure this RN has participated in the wheel chair drag racing competition sometime in her life) to the car. I'm sure Heather suggested that the RN should let go of the chair and let me roll down the ramp........
Made it home alive and in one piece so you get to put up me with a little longer. Six weeks before I get back to so called "normal" (whatever normal is)
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Sorry... but what?
You had you outie belly button removed, is that what I'l reading?
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Sorry... but what?
You had you outie belly button removed, is that what I'l reading?
Yep. And now he looks like Adam- no belly button! :rofl
Only on the ST Forum 8)
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The hernia was at the belly button which is a birth defect that is quite common but it might not show up for years.
Years ago this op would meant the removal of the belly button........not any more.......incision is made just below it and repaired.....simply....push everything back in the hole, sew it up, then patch over the hole for reinforcement and then close the wound.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/002935.htm (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/002935.htm)
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The hernia was at the belly button which is a birth defect that is quite common but it might not show up for years.
Years ago this op would meant the removal of the belly button........not any more.......incision is made just below it and repaired.....simply....push everything back in the hole, sew it up, then patch over the hole for reinforcement and then close the wound.
[url]http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/002935.htm[/url] ([url]http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/002935.htm[/url])
Oh...right... gottcha... glad your ok :p
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What was that you said? Everything behind the belly button was the birth defect? Must be one good looking belly button. :o
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Alan, at least you didn't have to wait for spare parts from overseas.
Speedy recovery mate and let's not get into "showing scars" competition at the next RTE.
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I have me one of those too.......but never heard it referred to as an umbilical hernia......mines huge, goes about 8" all round my belly button and sticks out about 6" aswell......great to here there is an operation for it now......at the speed it growing might have to have it repaired every few years. :eat :eat
Cheers
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I have me one of those too.......but never heard it referred to as an umbilical hernia......mines huge, goes about 8" all round my belly button and sticks out about 6" aswell......great to here there is an operation for it now......at the speed it growing might have to have it repaired every few years. :eat :eat
Cheers
I've seen that "problem" ST2UP, and it ain't curable via surgery.....although according to Australian statistics its a disease that's rampant across Australia. (I think I might have a touch of it myself)
Alan..... Speedy recovery mate...... See if Heather will bring you plenty of tea/coffee and cake.....I've heard that it's a good treatment for that condition...... :thumb
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Alan, at least you didn't have to wait for spare parts from overseas.
Speedy recovery mate and let's not get into "showing scars" competition at the next RTE.
Thanks,
Some things shouldn't be seen.........lol
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Alan..... Speedy recovery mate...... See if Heather will bring you plenty of tea/coffee and cake.....I've heard that it's a good treatment for that condition...... :thumb
Thanks,
As for the tea/coffee.....I think I get enough caffeine from Pepsi Max plus it tastes better.........
Annoying thing is I just get the bike back on the road, go for a ride one day, and op the next day and no more riding again for a few weeks.
Better to have op now and be fit for Border Ride in August.