Surgery

Today I am recovering from Hernia surgery. I was going in for a repair on the left side but after all said an done the doctor did both sides. Suprise, suprise. I didn't expect that. Now I know why we were there all day.

The surgery was done via laparoscopy with about 5 small holes in my abdomen, super glue was used to put me back together. This sure beats the old process of using staples to close you up. I could take a photo of my stomach, but I really don't think you want to look at that.

It was getting to the point that I do some passing of fluids or they were going to keep me over night, you know how some people take a box home, well I could have taken home a bag hung on me. I prefer neither, so I finally passed some fluid & I mean some, about 1/2 teaspoon.

Well, it worked so we went home.

It was a long night because I was up every 15 - 20 minutes trying to get the fluids out of my body and as I mention above it was not much, however today the flow is a lot more an not as often, I now know what to expect tonight. I normally do get up often thru the night due to the prostate.

I guess I was nieve as to what to expect because I never had surgery before a therefore no reference to the pain or how long it would take to heal. Correction, I did have my tonsils out 50 years ago.

I think I am on the mend.