OT Okay Gotta Go to my Pre-Op and EKG for the Big Operation Wednesday, August 11

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Lanny said:
Gotta go shower and eat breakfast. Better take a dump so I can honestly say I'm scared shitless.
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Prayers with you, Lanny, one week from today.
 
Thoughts are with you Lanny. You kick that surgeries ass
 
crandc said:
Best of luck. Need cookies during recuperation?
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Always need cookies. Little known fact, behind the scene I am the cookie monster.
Here's the funny part, my wife worked for a famous cookie company, Grandma's, for about five or six years when we got deep into our relationship. One night I said "Let's bake some cookies and eat them while watching a movie on TV". She replied that she only packaged them but had no idea how to make them. All these years, over 4 decades, we have never made cookies together. She liked to eat some of Grandma's cookies but not all.
 
Had my pre-op today. Good grief, I've gone through the same pre-op over half a dozen times. I've had over two dozen surgeries, all but two were at the VA. I practically know the pre-op people by name by now.
 
Lanny said:
Always need cookies. Little known fact, behind the scene I am the cookie monster.
Here's the funny part, my wife worked for a famous cookie company, Grandma's, for about five or six years when we got deep into our relationship. One night I said "Let's bake some cookies and eat them while watching a movie on TV". She replied that she only packaged them but had no idea how to make them. All these years, over 4 decades, we have never made cookies together. She liked to eat some of Grandma's cookies but not all.
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Message me with info and you can have cookies.
 
BLAZINGGIANTS said:
Wait. What'd I miss (besides El-P's boobs)? Obviously, Lanny, you're having some sort of heart surgery?
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With little hope of surviving. Tell your pretty sisters this.
 
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You got this Lanny!
You’re in my thoughts dude!
 
BLAZINGGIANTS said:
C'mon now. That wasn't a joke. What's the surgery? What's the prognosis?
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It;'s so I can do peritoneal dialysis through my belly rather than terribly painful and severely inconvenient hemo dialysis via two large gauge needles stuck in my arm three times a day. Hemo is done at the hospital four hours three times a week and peritoneal is done at home every night while I sleep. Peritoneal will also mean more energy and an ability and more ability to walk around without my wheel chairs and walker and wife to assist me.
As a side benefit, they're going to repair a long standing hernia during the same operation.
I'll be knocked out for the operation which will install a permanent catheter in my belly.
Peritoneal means I have to be extra careful to be very very careful to be very very cleanly during hook up and disconnecting. Everything, must be sterile. Infections are a mother fucker. It also uses a lot of supplies that will require a whole room to store them in. I then can either use a peritoneal machine or hook it up by a drip manual method which takes about four hours three times a day. I'll have to learn both methods.
I'll be able to eat more normally which is a big plus.
Learning to do it manually will take at least a month and learning to use the machine is gonna take about two weeks.
For obvious reasons no more string bikini bathing suits. In fact swimming in a lake is discouraged.
There, there's more than you wanted to know to satisfy your savage curiosity.
Now I'm having a big BBQ to celebrate so who wants a nice juicy blood sausage with a blood orange screw driver?
 
Lanny said:
It;'s so I can do peritoneal dialysis through my belly rather than terribly painful and severely inconvenient hemo dialysis via two large gauge needles stuck in my arm three times a day. Hemo is done at the hospital four hours three times a week and peritoneal is done at home every night while I sleep. Peritoneal will also mean more energy and an ability and more ability to walk around without my wheel chairs and walker and wife to assist me.
As a side benefit, they're going to repair a long standing hernia during the same operation.
I'll be knocked out for the operation which will install a permanent catheter in my belly.
Peritoneal means I have to be extra careful to be very very careful to be very very cleanly during hook up and disconnecting. Everything, must be sterile. Infections are a mother fucker. It also uses a lot of supplies that will require a whole room to store them in. I then can either use a peritoneal machine or hook it up by a drip manual method which takes about four hours three times a day. I'll have to learn both methods.
I'll be able to eat more normally which is a big plus.
Learning to do it manually will take at least a month and learning to use the machine is gonna take about two weeks.
For obvious reasons no more string bikini bathing suits. In fact swimming in a lake is discouraged.
There, there's more than you wanted to know to satisfy your savage curiosity.
Now I'm having a big BBQ to celebrate so who wants a nice juicy blood sausage with a blood orange screw driver?
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Is your procedure done Lanny? I had inguinal hernia surgery several years ago and it was two and a half months recovery...they had originally told me 6 weeks...also came with dietary restrictions...glad I had it done now though...much better to have things back where they're supposed to be
 
riverman said:
Is your procedure done Lanny? I had inguinal hernia surgery several years ago and it was two and a half months recovery...they had originally told me 6 weeks...also came with dietary restrictions...glad I had it done now though...much better to have things back where they're supposed to be
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Procedure will be done by Wednesday afternoon. My hernia repair is apparently very minor. All of the work on me will be done in a small hole in my belly. It's an outpatient surgery although I do expect to be knocked out and maybe up to an hour in recovery. Then there's another hour or two before they release me, according to the warden.
 
Lanny said:
Procedure will be done by Wednesday afternoon. My hernia repair is apparently very minor. All of the work on me will be done in a small hole in my belly. It's an outpatient surgery although I do expect to be knocked out and maybe up to an hour in recovery. Then there's another hour or two before they release me, according to the warden.
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Mine was also done through the navel area and was outpatient surgery but if it's inguinal hernia...recovery in my case was not that easy..they sew a mesh tube around the intestine and it took a long time before I didn't feel like they sewed a pencil in my groin...now it's fine..good luck with your surgery Lanny...hope it's an improvement for you
 
riverman said:
Mine was also done through the navel area and was outpatient surgery but if it's inguinal hernia...recovery in my case was not that easy..they sew a mesh tube around the intestine and it took a long time before I didn't feel like they sewed a pencil in my groin...now it's fine..good luck with your surgery Lanny...hope it's an improvement for you
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Anything's an improvement for me. Have you seen my face?
 
I do have to get tested for Covid-19 Monday. They were gonna do a nose swab but I talked them out of it when I explained my bleeding problem which has meant three trips to the ER because of uncontrolled nose bleeds. So, now they're making an exception for me and swabbing the back of my throat. If they hadn't made my test an exception I was not going to go through with the operation. My dialysis doctor previously blocked a nose swab test. All they gotta do is look up my history at the VA and the nose bleeds should have shown up with a spotlight. Bef0re an operation at the VA shouldn't they look into your VA history?
 
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