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08-25-2006, 12:14 PM #1
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08-25-2006, 12:18 PM #2
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Hope you're feeling better soon...my best friend just had the same surgery 2 weeks ago...she's just starting to feel back to normal.
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08-25-2006, 12:24 PM #3
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Chickwhorips - glad your story had a happy ending! Mine started after my run Sunday morning and I thought it was my usual GI issues that running gives me... but it continued and I realized I'd never had a 4 hour gas pain before!
Did yours rupture? I have read that means a longer hospital stay and longer recovery.
Thanks for all the well wishes, everyone!
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08-25-2006, 01:24 PM #4
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mine had burst for over 48 hrs before they got to it. i was told you usually [pass away] with in the first 24-48 hrs after it bursts. i was in ICU for 1 week and up on a regular floor for another week before i could go home with a VAC (vacuum assisted closure) because they couldn't sew me up incase they didn't get all the infection. hence the reason for the HUGE scar. my home recovery was a a couple of months before i was healed enough to move about. i had the VAC on for about a month and then had dry dressing on it. oh the fun and memories....
Originally Posted by are_you_stinky?
Chickwhorips - glad your story had a happy ending! Mine started after my run Sunday morning and I thought it was my usual GI issues that running gives me... but it continued and I realized I'd never had a 4 hour gas pain before! Did yours rupture? I have read that means a longer hospital stay and longer recovery."Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it." – William C. Durant
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08-25-2006, 01:36 PM #5
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WOW, chickwhorips... I obviously have nothing to complain about! Thanks for the perspective and again I am so glad you're OK!!
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08-25-2006, 01:43 PM #6
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you still have room for complaining. either way its not a fun deal. not sure how much they did on you, don't know the procedure, but i'm sure it wasn't fun.
i'm very happy they caught yours in time before anything worse happened. i cringe when someone says something about something like this. i know how bad it can get."Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it." – William C. Durant
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08-25-2006, 02:06 PM #7
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All I had was three little incisions about a half inch long... one in my belly button and two more below that. I showed up at the ER at about 3, had the surgery around 10 PM, and left the hospital by about noon the next day.
OK, time to escape this house and get some yummy Italian food!
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