How dramatic is hernia surgery nowadays?

**crptcblade** · Feb 2nd, 2002, 04:37 PM

How long is the hospital stay, and recovery typically?

**rjlohan** · Feb 2nd, 2002, 04:39 PM

A coupla days, I gather. They just do a quick slice'n'dice, push it back in, maybe sew some internal stitches to keep it in place, and put you back together.
A couple of days is all the recovery should take.

Got some medical probs John?

**rjlohan** · Feb 2nd, 2002, 04:40 PM

That is to say, the hospital recovery would only be a few days, it might be a week or more til you heal up again, you gotta make sure not to bust it out again...

**crptcblade** · Feb 2nd, 2002, 04:40 PM

Could be, I got some funky stuff going on.

**rjlohan** · Feb 2nd, 2002, 04:43 PM

I thought I had a hernia once.... turned out I was just a lazy fat bastard with a beer gut...

Wanna hear about my operation...???

**crptcblade** · Feb 2nd, 2002, 04:44 PM

Does it involve a flushing sound at the end?

**rjlohan** · Feb 2nd, 2002, 04:48 PM

Crap! I hope not.... *checks nads...* yeah, they're both still there.

Phew...

**Electro414** · Feb 2nd, 2002, 04:49 PM

What is a hernia, anyway?

**chrisjk** · Feb 2nd, 2002, 04:50 PM

A protrusion, consisting of an organ or part which has escaped from its natural cavity, and projects through some natural or accidental opening in the walls of the latter; as, hernia of the brain, of the lung, or of the bowels. Hernia of the abdominal viscera in most common. Called also rupture.

I went to med school, honest

**crptcblade** · Feb 2nd, 2002, 04:51 PM

Originally posted by chrisjk
A protrusion, consisting of an organ or part which has escaped from its natural cavity, and projects through some natural or accidental opening in the walls of the latter; as, hernia of the brain, of the lung, or of the bowels. Hernia of the abdominal viscera in most common. Called also rupture.

I went to med school, honest

http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=hernia

Hmmm....

**chrisjk** · Feb 2nd, 2002, 04:55 PM

hey! they copied me and then posted it as an explanation on their site!!!!!!

**beachbum** · Feb 2nd, 2002, 05:29 PM

Originally posted by crptcblade
How long is the hospital stay, and recovery typically?

Not too bad.. I even think that the chance of survival has increased from 2% to around 5 or so

**crptcblade** · Feb 2nd, 2002, 05:31 PM

Originally posted by beachbum

Not too bad.. I even think that the chance of survival has increased from 2% to around 5 or so

Thank god for modern medicine! What a time to be injured!

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