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WeDidIt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-21-09 07:40 PM Original message |
I Have An Abdominal Hernia |
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Liberal_in_LA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-21-09 07:41 PM Response to Original message |
1. Oh no! Hope you have the surgery soon. take care |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-21-09 07:43 PM Response to Original message |
2. Are you in a rural state? |
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WeDidIt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-21-09 07:47 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. My doctor's offices are in Chicago |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-21-09 07:50 PM Response to Reply #4 |
8. Wow! I figured you had a long wait because of limited medical facilities. |
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Mind_your_head (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-21-09 07:44 PM Response to Original message |
3. Are you in the US or 'somewhere else'? |
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WeDidIt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-21-09 07:49 PM Response to Reply #3 |
7. The point isn't really about my hernia |
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Mind_your_head (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-21-09 07:54 PM Response to Reply #7 |
11. Well, yes I agree with that, about the wait times.......MOST IMPORTANTLY |
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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-21-09 07:47 PM Response to Original message |
5. Well, I have an incisional hernia, the result of a couple of surgeries in 2007 |
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rwheeler31 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-21-09 07:47 PM Response to Original message |
6. This is not fun lay down and find entertainment. |
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sellitman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-21-09 07:52 PM Response to Original message |
9. I have had 3 hernia operations |
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undeterred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-21-09 07:54 PM Response to Original message |
10. A friend of mine had a midline hernia |
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spanone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-21-09 07:55 PM Response to Original message |
12. take care...had the surgery a couple of years ago....you'll be fine |
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Turbineguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-21-09 08:05 PM Response to Original message |
13. A Doctor once told me |
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marybourg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-21-09 08:15 PM Response to Reply #13 |
16. That was years ago when US docs weren't using the mesh |
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ConcernedCanuk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-21-09 08:49 PM Response to Reply #13 |
18. Hospital is called the "Shouldice Clinic" |
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WeDidIt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-21-09 09:00 PM Response to Reply #18 |
20. I used "abdominal" to separate it from "inguinal" to the lay person |
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Juche (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-21-09 09:14 PM Response to Reply #13 |
24. The British Hernia center is good too |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-21-09 08:06 PM Response to Original message |
14. There's no earthly reason a medically stable person can't wait |
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WeDidIt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-21-09 08:10 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. Exactly! |
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ConcernedCanuk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-21-09 08:53 PM Response to Reply #14 |
19. "Fear makes people stupid " - yup yup |
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lunatica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-21-09 08:19 PM Response to Original message |
17. The important thing to remember is lots of people live with hernias |
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lindisfarne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-21-09 09:00 PM Response to Reply #17 |
21. They've changed the way they treat them. If they get strangulated, it can cause serious |
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WeDidIt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-21-09 09:02 PM Response to Reply #21 |
22. My doctor referred me to a surgeon |
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lunatica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-21-09 09:36 PM Response to Reply #21 |
25. Of course it needs to be monitored. |
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Juche (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-21-09 09:08 PM Response to Original message |
23. Meh, I've had a hernia for years |
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JackDragna (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-21-09 09:48 PM Response to Original message |
26. If you get surgery, it's no biggie. |
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Ilsa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-21-09 09:55 PM Response to Original message |
27. Good luck with your surgery. It is alot easier to recover from |
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DainBramaged (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-21-09 10:04 PM Response to Original message |
28. I had one of those surgically fixed in 1992 |
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usregimechange (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-21-09 10:06 PM Response to Original message |
29. Best wishes on your recovery/wait time. Can you alter your title to add, private care wait time etc |
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FormerOstrich (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-22-09 02:25 AM Response to Original message |
30. I suppose the warranty was up |
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