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anyone had it before? if so, what for? did it hurt?
only surgeries i've had were two of them (1998) when i cut my feet across the bottom of a refrigerator slipping on a very wet floor.  my toes were destroyed like whoa. they shot each one of them w/ needles...took hrs to do the surgery. i was awake (not under anesthesia) but could not feel it. afterwards, went home w/ a cast covering my whole leg (not only feet) hard time showering w/ them on and ya di ya da. a set of wonderful crutches were included. (2000) when i was wrestling as a middle school wrestler, dude yanked my pinky on my right finger and broke it during a match.  bruised and nasty looking. surgical operation for it as well and had to wear an arm cast.
now what's your story?
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| POSTED BY: vnlilman on 07/25/2008 02:55:15 |
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The closest thing to it is the stitches on my nose and watching other people get surgeries when I was in high school(I was in medical magnet and they would go to the hospital once a week)
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2009----i am debating if i should go in for my cracked vertebrae to be adjusted with titanium.
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In 2003, I had 2 surgeries to correct a detached retina in my right eye; detached once & they put in a scleral buckle to hold it in place, detached again in a different area so they put a band around my eyeball. Having lattices & weak retinas are hereditary + it didn't help getting slammed during grappling all the time. In 2004, I developed glaucoma as a result from the 2 surgeries and had to get that corrected by surgically creating a channel above my iris (it looks like a bubble).
The first 2 surgeries, I was put under general anesthesia and the 3rd one I was under twilight anesthesia which felt weird because I was awake in a really relaxed state but it felt like my eyes were closed (all I saw was pitch black during the surgery) even though my eye was getting worked on. The after effects of general anesthesia sucked 'cuz I was really nauseous. Being under twilight didn't require an overnight hospital stay & I got to go home the same day. Rehabbing from the first 2 surgeries wasn't very pleasant either since I had to have my head facing up for a week after the first surgery & couldn't roll my eye. The 2nd surgery was the opposite: I couldn't roll my eye and had to have my face parallel to the ground for a week. Right now my right eye is nearly shot (only 60% clarity; -7 vision) but it's better than total blindness.
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thanks ahah, was like so much reading lmfao, glad to know much of us are all better or improved ahah after surgery 
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Mandy wrote:
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devious_impulse wrote:
In 2003, I had 2 surgeries to correct a detached retina in my right eye; detached once & they put in a scleral buckle to hold it in place, detached again in a different area so they put a band around my eyeball. Having lattices & weak retinas are hereditary + it didn't help getting slammed during grappling all the time. In 2004, I developed glaucoma as a result from the 2 surgeries and had to get that corrected by surgically creating a channel above my iris (it looks like a bubble).
The first 2 surgeries, I was put under general anesthesia and the 3rd one I was under twilight anesthesia which felt weird because I was awake in a really relaxed state but it felt like my eyes were closed (all I saw was pitch black during the surgery) even though my eye was getting worked on. The after effects of general anesthesia sucked 'cuz I was really nauseous. Being under twilight didn't require an overnight hospital stay & I got to go home the same day. Rehabbing from the first 2 surgeries wasn't very pleasant either since I had to have my head facing up for a week after the first surgery & couldn't roll my eye. The 2nd surgery was the opposite: I couldn't roll my eye and had to have my face parallel to the ground for a week. Right now my right eye is nearly shot (only 60% clarity; -7 vision) but it's better than total blindness.
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Twilight anesthesia? Wow. Never heard of it. Sounds weird & coooool at the same time, haha. Hm, I've always had good vision. Never had to wear glasses or contacts or anything.
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lucky lucky, i had glasses since 5th grade omg. yeah too much tv for me back then ahah
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Mandy wrote:
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devious_impulse wrote:
In 2003, I had 2 surgeries to correct a detached retina in my right eye; detached once & they put in a scleral buckle to hold it in place, detached again in a different area so they put a band around my eyeball. Having lattices & weak retinas are hereditary + it didn't help getting slammed during grappling all the time. In 2004, I developed glaucoma as a result from the 2 surgeries and had to get that corrected by surgically creating a channel above my iris (it looks like a bubble).
The first 2 surgeries, I was put under general anesthesia and the 3rd one I was under twilight anesthesia which felt weird because I was awake in a really relaxed state but it felt like my eyes were closed (all I saw was pitch black during the surgery) even though my eye was getting worked on. The after effects of general anesthesia sucked 'cuz I was really nauseous. Being under twilight didn't require an overnight hospital stay & I got to go home the same day. Rehabbing from the first 2 surgeries wasn't very pleasant either since I had to have my head facing up for a week after the first surgery & couldn't roll my eye. The 2nd surgery was the opposite: I couldn't roll my eye and had to have my face parallel to the ground for a week. Right now my right eye is nearly shot (only 60% clarity; -7 vision) but it's better than total blindness.
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Twilight anesthesia? Wow. Never heard of it. Sounds weird & coooool at the same time, haha. Hm, I've always had good vision. Never had to wear glasses or contacts or anything.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight_Anesthesia The best I can describe it is like the closest thing to sleeping while being totally aware of what's going on.
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