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New_Boots
New_Boots Posts: 2,651 ✭✭
Well, I know this is really more NCR, but I generally stay outta that place any more.

Anyway....I go in for surgery on Thursday. I'm having a hydroceletomy. It's something that popped up during my last deployment. No idea how or why, but it did. I won't describe it here. Look it up if you wish, I just hope you're not squeamish. I will have 3 weeks of recovery time afterwards. This is my first time having any type of surgery, can't say I'm thrilled about it.

Wish me luck, boys!

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  • twistedstem
    twistedstem Posts: 3,912 ✭✭✭✭✭
    OK I googled it.OUCH!!!! Hope all goes well brother.keep us posted no pictures please!!! Best wishes for a speedy recovery.
    no matter where you go, there you are.

  • jd50ae
    jd50ae Posts: 7,900 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I ain't even going to look it up.....when I have had surgery I don't even want it described to me, and I don't have to watch it. I hate hospitals.

    That being said, make sure you have a visitor with good smuggling skills. And don't hesitate to push that button.

    Wish you a speedy and uneventful recovery.
  • Poker_Slob
    Poker_Slob Posts: 1,269 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I've had the same thing done years ago. No pain or problems. You will be fine in no time. Rest easy and enjoy the time off.
  • Darktower007
    Darktower007 Posts: 2,580 ✭✭✭✭
    Wishing a quick recovery!
  • Bob_Luken
    Bob_Luken Posts: 11,820 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Hoping all goes well.
  • LiquidChaos66
    LiquidChaos66 Posts: 3,767 ✭✭✭✭
    Kick some ass Boots!!!! Good juju headin your way pal!
    Life is like a blind fiver. You never know what you're gonna get.
  • ckrddsmke
    ckrddsmke Posts: 392
    My legs are crossed. All should be well our thoughts are with you!
  • webmost
    webmost Posts: 7,713 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That's Nuts!
    “It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)


  • New_Boots
    New_Boots Posts: 2,651 ✭✭
    webmost:
    That's Nuts!
    Bahaha, thanks guys
  • Bigshizza
    Bigshizza Posts: 15,659 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Good luck with that Bootsie! Let us know if you need anything
  • Tyland64
    Tyland64 Posts: 712
    Hope all goes well. I am glad I lost my mind with our trade.
  • New_Boots
    New_Boots Posts: 2,651 ✭✭
    Tyland64:
    Hope all goes well. I am glad I lost my mind with our trade.
    I'm really scared now!
  • matkn293
    matkn293 Posts: 3,565 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Good luck sir. I feel your pain although mine is not that serious.

    Life is too short to smoke bad cigars!!!

    Oh when the Blues, Oh when the Blues, Oh when the Blues go marching in!


  • LiquidChaos66
    LiquidChaos66 Posts: 3,767 ✭✭✭✭
    You in and out in a day or they having you stay for a day or so after the procedure?
    Life is like a blind fiver. You never know what you're gonna get.
  • New_Boots
    New_Boots Posts: 2,651 ✭✭
    LiquidChaos66:
    You in and out in a day or they having you stay for a day or so after the procedure?
    Should be in/out. Little recovery time, and head home.
  • rsherman24
    rsherman24 Posts: 7,784 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Good luck man.
  • roland_7707
    roland_7707 Posts: 2,833 ✭✭✭
    Praying for ya man.
    One God, One Truth
  • honorknight7
    honorknight7 Posts: 523
    Happy thoughts your way Brother, Keep to the Dr's orders about time off/no lifting etc...
    Back in 1995 I had a vasectomy, the Dr said no work for 2-3 weeks
    (construction, I guess because its to labor intensive?? a lot of non labor guys I knew only took 3-4 days off work)
    After 1 week off I went back to work, was lifting a couple buckets of mixed coal tar epoxy and both incisions split open and well, lets just say it wasn't pretty, so 2 more weeks off and all was good

    Relax, enjoy some time smoking some great sticks, give the ol boys some time off and let them recoup to get back in the game in a few weeks :)
  • New_Boots
    New_Boots Posts: 2,651 ✭✭
    About 3 hrs from show time, to heading home. Good drugs and a good doc.
  • New_Boots
    New_Boots Posts: 2,651 ✭✭
    This is new boots wife. Just wanted to let everyone know that he is home and resting. The doctor did end up taking a biopsy there was a lot of inflammation that he is a little concerned about. He's not convinced it might be cancer but he wanted to just be on the safe side. He goes back to the doctor next week for a check up. He's been in and out of sleep since he got home but he seems to be doing well otherwise.
  • Rain
    Rain Posts: 8,958 ✭✭✭
    Good to hear! Tell him we're thinking of him.Would this be a bad time to tell him about us? ;)
  • WaltBasil
    WaltBasil Posts: 1,757 ✭✭✭
    New Boots:
    This is new boots wife. Just wanted to let everyone know that he is home and resting. The doctor did end up taking a biopsy there was a lot of inflammation that he is a little concerned about. He's not convinced it might be cancer but he wanted to just be on the safe side. He goes back to the doctor next week for a check up. He's been in and out of sleep since he got home but he seems to be doing well otherwise.
    ||Best Joey's voice from Friends I could conjur...|| How you doin?
  • jd50ae
    jd50ae Posts: 7,900 ✭✭✭✭✭
    New Boots:
    This is new boots wife. Just wanted to let everyone know that he is home and resting. The doctor did end up taking a biopsy there was a lot of inflammation that he is a little concerned about. He's not convinced it might be cancer but he wanted to just be on the safe side. He goes back to the doctor next week for a check up. He's been in and out of sleep since he got home but he seems to be doing well otherwise.


    So...we will have another respite from his posts..:) Just kidding...I wish him well, and tell him any pain or make sleepy medications he has left over he can send them to me.
  • macs-smokes
    macs-smokes Posts: 587
    Boots... 1) listen to DR... It sucks but recover before you do anything even remotely stupid. (2) Stay hydrated, and ask the MRS Boots (or is that High Heels) for fresh ice often.

    Way to many surgeries to not listen to DR.
  • LiquidChaos66
    LiquidChaos66 Posts: 3,767 ✭✭✭✭
    Take care Boots! Keep us posted on how you're doin when you have a chance!
    Life is like a blind fiver. You never know what you're gonna get.
  • Chemnitz
    Chemnitz Posts: 1,300 ✭✭✭
    Get well soon! Keeping you in my prayers.
  • matkn293
    matkn293 Posts: 3,565 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Hope all is well. Praying the results come back negative.

    Life is too short to smoke bad cigars!!!

    Oh when the Blues, Oh when the Blues, Oh when the Blues go marching in!


  • New_Boots
    New_Boots Posts: 2,651 ✭✭
    FYI - Showering can in fact be a bad thing. Owwy