I am a **** that vaccinates, Darwins theory will take care of the ****'s that don't.
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I am a **** that vaccinates, Darwins theory will take care of the ****'s that don't.
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Had mine about an hour ago during my one to one with my nice practice nurse
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My second hip replacement was on a Friday morning, local anaesthetic in spine, I was home Sunday afternoon drinking GuinnessJEEZUS
I walked into theatre in my flipflops about 2:00 pm (they all asked if I was lost from the beach) had about 30 mins of comfortable surgery and walked out of the hospital a couple of hours later feeling fine (apart from a weird floppy right hand that didn't belong to me). The pain hit about 10 pm.
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Hip replacements, similar to hernia ops, you have to exercise to knit all the muscles back together, bloody sadists.
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All I did was walk a lot, if it was bad weather I used to do circuits of Sainsburys while the wife shopped, but the day after the ops the Physios appeared and took no prisoners, you will get out of bed and walk
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could just go quiet, sit on the fence , and copy and paste all sorts of official liestistics.
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My dear benny, quite clearly I have done none of those things.
I had a knee op under GA, and recall being unable to stay awake afterwards.
Wake up, pass out, wake up, pass out....
Eventually, I was deemed awake enough to be a candidate for going home. But I had to be able to bend my knee at least 90 degrees first, get up out of bed, and walk around.
No problem.
It did become a problem after I'd got home, and the anaesthetic had fully worn off.....
I fondly recall having three ingrown toenails removed under local anaesthetic, and sitting up to watch the butchery....
The most horrific part was the local; they told me it was so painful, because they had to force it through the tight flesh down either side of each toe.......
I was discharged at half past four. By ten o'clock, I was on a dancefloor, half cut, watching blood seeping out of the front of my tan leather shoes ......
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Toes, feet and ankles, and fingers, hands and wrists are very painful when punctured with needles.
The most painful thing I ever did was a spiral leg fracture.
I had morph and entenox prior to admission, and the feeling was great, a bit like being blind drunk!
Then I had nowt but paracetamol and oramorph while waiting for surgery - a 2 week wait!!!
The pain came in waves and at its peak, I was yelling out.
A nurse came to tell me to be quiet as I was disturbing all the other patients (Gee, thanks) so I told her bluntly through gritted teeth that if I had a DECENT PAINKILLER, I would be as quiet as a mouse.
Eventually (the next day) a specialist pain nurse came and hooked me up to PCA. Press a button and you get a shot of morphine - the first time I pressed it it was like a wave sweeping over your body washing the pain away.
The second most painful was a cannula in the wrist that wasn't in a vein. I was on a saline drip and the liquid collected under the skin in a massive bulge and was excruciating. You know what it's like in hospital, you lie there in bed and press the nurse call button then wait for ages. Then someone comes and says I'll be back in a tick.......
The third worst pain I had was a cannula in the inner wrist. It was agony going in and the pain kept on coming util it was removed three days later.
Spinal anaesthesia is up there, too!!
You sound like Evel Knievel!
A few years ago when I was having my hernia op, I went down to the theatre and was prepped up, he told me to count backwards from ten, the nurse interrupted him and said something to me that I didn’t quite hear so I said "Pardon?" and she repeated "I said, let’s get you back to your room". I’d had the operation in a blink of an eye, I couldn’t believe it!
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I've had quite a few operations over the years and as I get old, I find GA is harder to shake off. I used to be wide awake and feeling fine within 30 mins. Morphine too was great. Now I don't recover very well, takes a good day to shake off the groggy and sadly, morphine now makes me vomit. Takes all the fun out of it 
My last operation a couple of years ago was amusing. I have situs inversus and just as they were about to send me off to the land of nod, a lady doctor, who had nothing to do with my care, came running in and asked if I was the lady with situs inversus. She apparently had the same and in her 40 years of being a doctor, had never met another person with the same thing. We quickly chatted about it, how friends at school never believed it etc and then off I went for my op with her asking if it was ok to watch
My last operation a couple of years ago was amusing. I have situs inversus and just as they were about to send me off to the land of nod, a lady doctor, who had nothing to do with my care, came running in and asked if I was the lady with situs inversus. She apparently had the same and in her 40 years of being a doctor, had never met another person with the same thing. We quickly chatted about it, how friends at school never believed it etc and then off I went for my op with her asking if it was ok to watch
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