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Author Topic: I'm Off To Hernia Surgery Today-Warning Graphic Photos Mark Lensenmayer Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1605 From: Upper Arlington, OH Registered: Sep 1999 posted 05-03-2005 09:57 PM                     I had that surgery a few years ago. Out-patient basis...I walked out of the hospital and had some pizza when I got home. Dr. said to stay home 5 days. Some pain, but the pills took care of that. Good luck, and may the knife stay VERY steady!!!  |  IP: Logged Mark J. Marshall Film God Posts: 3188 From: New Castle, DE, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 05-03-2005 10:15 PM                    Good luck and best wishes for a speedy recovery! Hope to see you back here soon.  |  IP: Logged William Hooper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1879 From: Mobile, AL USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-04-2005 12:14 AM                        Wow, & he's doing it for the boys. Go Mark!  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 05-04-2005 12:23 AM                        Was it the DP-70s or the Ampex 2000s??? Not that it matters now. Be well, get well Mark!  |  IP: Logged Jeff Stricker Master Film Handler Posts: 481 From: Calumet, Mi USA Registered: Nov 1999 posted 05-04-2005 06:43 AM                     Get well, Mark! Our thoughts are with you.  |  IP: Logged Bruce McGee Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1776 From: Asheville, NC USA... Nowhere in Particular. Registered: Aug 1999 posted 05-04-2005 07:51 AM                     Phil, I'm sure Mark is dreaming of celluloid highways, and rose colored lenses today. I'm sure he's hoisting TK-47's with one hand today. I remember those things. Oh agony, agony... At least, his boys will be happier. Who here wants to offer to go and inspect them? ('Nuff said.)  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-04-2005 09:01 AM                     Hi All, Thanks for all the kind thoughts! Mine was done as outpatient but I did not have them go with the Mesh type screen that many have placed inside to hold the intestines in place. When I first saw my surgeon he mentioned of a stusy that was done 2 years ago. Should one need Kidney or Prostate or to re-do the hernia surgery the mesh seriously complicates that as the blood vessels and body fat also grow into it. This makes surgery on an older person more difficult and there can be complications. Since I turn 50 this year I went the old method where they stitch the muscles back together. He claims this method has no more pain than the orthoscopic mesh method and I definately believe him on that. I purposely let the pain med wear off and here I am sitting typing this with just some dull pain senssation and that mainly comming from the muscles. At any rate this is the prefered way to go... The prefered way used to be with the mesh. Total time was 90 min and all I remember was laying down on the O.R. table, the nurse placing a warmed blanket on top of me. The Anestetist then placed the needle in a vein in top of my left hand.... I didn't feel that either... he was pretty damed good at it. Next thing I remember is that I was waking up in recovery. No. pain what so ever as he also gave me a local down below on both sides. Clearly I've had shots at the doctors office inmy ass that were more painful than anything I've experienced with this surgery so far. I did con the anestetist into taking some photos with my Nikon. Mark  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 05-04-2005 09:08 AM                     Glad to hear you are doing ok. While you're resting up, take a good look at Kinoton's current line of projectors.  |  IP: Logged Paul Konen Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 981 From: Frisco, TX. (North of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-04-2005 09:58 AM                     Mark, hope you doing well. Nice surgical team, giving you the finger while your were out.  |  IP: Logged David Stambaugh Film God Posts: 4021 From: Eugene, Oregon Registered: Jan 2002 posted 05-04-2005 12:33 PM                        My father had hernia surgery when he was 78. It was an outpatient thing. I drove him to and from the hospital. He was up and walking around as soon as he got home. In fact he was driving me nuts because he refused to sit down! He's a tough old bird and it didn't seem to phase him, no complications afterward either.  |  IP: Logged Peter Kerchinsky Master Film Handler Posts: 326 From: Seattle, WA, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 05-04-2005 01:06 PM                     Good luck Mark. Hope to hear back from you soon.  |  IP: Logged Rachel Craven Madam Moderator Posts: 2190 From: Pensacola, FL Registered: Dec 2000 posted 05-04-2005 01:08 PM                     Hope you're feeling better Mark!  |  IP: Logged Stephen Furley Film God Posts: 3059 From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England Registered: May 2002 posted 05-04-2005 02:00 PM                     All the best Mark, hope you're feeling better. quote: Mark Gulbrandsen I did con the anestetist into taking some photos with my Nikon. Are you being serious about that? Did they really take your camera into an operating theatre, or did they take the pictures through an observation window, or something. I wouldn't have thought that they'd allow anything that hadn't been sterilised or scrubbed-up in there. I don't want to know anything about knives or needles, unless they're used for cutting bread, or sewing buttons on a shirt. I could never have any sort of surgical operation done, I just couldn't stand the thought of it. When I was very young, I can just remember it, I was in hospital for a couple of days. I don't know what the problem was, but I was circumcised (for medical not religious reasons) as part of the procedure. I wasn't old enought then to understand what was going on, but now there's no way I'm going under the knife, at least while I'm still alive. Just about 27 years ago, it was just before my 21st birthday, and I'm now coming up to by 48th in just over a week, I had some dental work done. I'd had various fillings done before, I've always had problem teeth, my first ones were the same, but I used to insist on having them done without the usual injection in the gum, as I just couldn't stand having that done. The work this time was an extraction for which they gave me an injection in the arm to put me out, and then gas to keep me under. I don't know exactly what happened, but I reacted very badly to the gas, and when I came round I've never felt so ill in my life; I honestly thought I was going to die. Most of the patients had to sit in the waiting room for about thirty minutes after coming round, and were then fit to go home. I was there for several hours before I could even stand up, and I collapsed several times during the couple of miles or so walk home, which took several more hours. It took several days for me to recover completely. I swore that I would never go to a dentist again, and I never have. I had really bad toothache on and off for years, but I put up with it, I've removed odd broken bits of tooth from gums myself, and I think that all of the nerves have died off now, though I did have a bit of pain last week, for the first time in a couple of years or so. Anything inside bodies I just don't want to know about, though I did once go to a post-mortum, and I must admit that by far the worst part of it was waiting outside the door to go in. What I actually saw during the procedure was not as bad as the expectation of it. Anyway, brave boy hope you have a speedy recovery.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-04-2005 02:42 PM                     Hi Stephen, Yea, I asked the anestatist and he agreed to take em withmy Nikon digital. He is also a bit of a photography buff himself so it was no problem. I doubted that they would do it too but he was glad to do it. He probably doesn't have alot to do while the surgeon is busy. I made it a long way through life so far without any surgert so I can't complain about at all.. After many years of scuba diving and hauling around either heavy electrionic or projection equipment I think I did pretty good. Today surgery is alot easier to go through than it was when you were a small boy. Not only did they give me a general but after I was out they also gave me a locals in each surgical areas. The original plan was just to give me a local at each incision site but I asked him to just put me out. He agreed with that and said it would also be alot easier for the surgeon. BTW, these locals lasted quite a while. The discomfort level is a bit more this afternoon than it was this morning but its not real painful... just a sort of dull pain. That should diminish in another day or two. When I went in I was more fascinated by all the equipment and was not nervous very much. I wouod LOVE to get one of those lights thay have over then operating table to place over my workbench! Mark  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 05-04-2005 04:25 PM                  OH! Anesthetist...the guy who administers the legal "feel good" and knockout drugs. I thought you said "atheist." Glad all went well, Mark! quote: Mark I wouod LOVE to get one of those lights thay have over then operating table to place over my workbench! I got one of those articulated dentist lights off of eBay a couple of years ago... works great for the bench.  |  IP: Logged

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