Surgery update......caution, incision picture!

Im glad edog is helping out at home,that way he won`t get into too much trouble. GET WELL SOON......Rocky

I haven't worn short shorts in awhile, so I'm not too worried about it. I've worn shorts over my bathing suit for awhile, too. Like Earthdog said, it's a battle scar I should be proud of! I am NOT looking forward to getting the staples removed, but I will be glad when they're out. They are starting to pinch and poke and itch. And I have to be careful with what I wear so they don't catch on anything. Right now, I can't imagine walking without a crutch let alone jumping on the back of the bike. Things are coming along. Each day, things seem a little easier. Still alot of stiffness and soreness. I'm starting to get a little stir crazy sitting around. I get up a lot to move and all, but even though we have like 100's of channels on cable TV, there's only so much TV you can watch. But after standing up too long, I get tired and achy. I've tried to do a few little things here and there, but again, I get tired and hurting. Hopefully, in a week or two, I can do more.

Wait untill you see how they take out the staples!
It is a tool that clamps down the skin directly under the staple, a steel tongue jams down on the area between the jaws of the staple remover. Sometimes, the staples do not straighten and they pull out large pieces of skin, tissue, and sometimes arteries. Sometimes the skin sticks to the staple, that is really a bummer. It pulls tissue as well as skin. When that happens, if the Dr., is noticing, the staple removing is stopped and the staple clipped in the center. Then, they take a tool like a Dremel and chuck the staple in the bit. They then spin the staple to loosen it before it does some real damage. Sometimes, the staple breaks off under the surface of the skin. They then take a tool that reaches in and grabs the piece of staple. Then quick, flash, searing heat to turn the staple red. This makes the skin let go of the staple piece. Then, they cut untill they find the piece. They leave that open to drain incase of firescale in the suture site.
Other than that, should go real well.
Use lots of vitamin E on each staple. It makes them slide out easily.

tequila....dont sweat the staples....its all easy...and i will promise that....i had 42 of them taken out of my calf ;D...and that is a tender part of the body also.

never had a problem ;D...didnt bother me a bit ;D...kev.

Yeah! United we stand!
My fair bride was telling me about the staples she had on her neck.
It seems Tim Allen, the Tool Guy has a brother the neurosurgeon. She was put face down on a cradle with her face looking through a padded toilet seat kinda of thing. She said, the people in those ridiculous clothes with all kinds of colours, and vomit green pants made her "comfortable".
They brought out this tool, complete with hydrolic hoses, that they keep in the refrigerator just for this purpose, kinda like that thing that hooks around their neck with the shiney metal end. They say take a deep breath and put that thing on your chest. Breathe! Who are they kidding. Almost like the dentist that shoots novacaine in your tooth, starts drilling and asks how the family is.
At any rate, the tool guy with the funny clothes and the Rolex told her to relax, fired up that sucker, and kerpow! He said THATS ONE!. She felt like her tongue was being pulled through her neck, and her intestines as well. She broke out into a sweat. They told her, only 15 more to go.
She told me it took two hands to operate and hold, made serious sucking noises, and when he said to hold on, it felt like an hammer was slamming her behind the neck, pinching the skin and BAM!, ONE MORE.... Her hands felt weak, she really started sweating, her eyes got blurry, she went limp on the contraption with the padded toilet seat. Meantime, Tim Allen's brother, the tool guy with the pyjamas and Rolex was telling her it will all be over soon.
She started speaking in some ancient Mayan dialect, then has several near death visions, and just when she started coming back to here and now, brother was saying, "got that sucker pretty good this time"....
She said, after a while it stopped hurting, almost like an out of body experience. Mere jolts running through the entire spinal cord. Faint BAM!, smack, and more sweat. She said she remembered that sucking noise and she thought her entire body was being pulled through a small opening and at the same time being held there by the MACHINE.
Tell Tequila we be watching from here. She be ok, it will pass. Tell her the dreams fade and she will not awake with the sound of the machine sucking her through a small hole.
She is tough, she will make it.

cpdad, I hope that's the case for me, too, that it's a piece of cake for the staple removal! I'm rather nervous about it. I've had enough pain for the last 2 weeks so I'm not looking forward to enduring anymore! I should expect the worse, than if it's not that bad, it will seem easy......least I hope so! Thanks for the description, doc, but I'm going to have to block out what you said.........TMI, as they say!

Yeah, the basket scooter was kind of fun, but there were way too many people in the store to be comfortable (they don't look for you and they stare way too much!). The people that did notice me were polite and would give me room to get by or tell their partner to move, etc. That felt a little weird, since I'm usually the person doing that.

Hi Takila,

It's great to hear how well you are doing. It's also amazing how helpful some of the posts here are...after all, laughter is the best medicine and some of these posts are downright hilarious!!

Try not to worry excessively about the staples coming out. By the appointed day your incision will be so well healed that most of the staples will be ready to fall out --if they haven't already. And the staple remover is a tiny little device that would easily fit in the palm of your daughter's hand. There might be an occasional little sting if the surgeon is too aggressive but there is no lasting pain!

Now as for Earthdog and his antics--I don't know of any cure or treatment other than...well I'm sure you know just how to take care of E!

Continued good wishes are being sent your way. You are doing great!!!!

Lady B

Yah Takila, you won't even need an asparin for the staples. Like I said, They save those Drs., for me.
We, down here in Geezer land, the land of the newlywed, or almost dead, have to deal with that a lot here. We went to Wally world for some jeans today. I never saw such geriatric children making a mess of things in my life. One of them even told me I do not get out that much and I just had to buck up.
We were driving in to the parking lot, when a Geezer just drove in front of us. No shame, no concern, just holding up his hand to show us he wanted us to stop and drove directly in front of us. If we had connected that way, the laws down here, we would have been in fault in spite of the facts. He ran a stop sign. Then, after getting so shaken from the near geriatric experience, we were run out of the isles by a band of maurading Geezers. It looked like Jabba the Hut on an electric scooter. We had to move almost into the shelves. As usual, a Geezer was ransacking my cart looking for meat. He even asked me why I had no meat.
Perhaps it is just me. I always thought we were to look to the white hairs for wisdom, and a better way of living. I see blue hairs and I see selfish, totally self absorbed, empowered monsters. There is no wisdom there. They ask me for wisdom?
We left shaking. There was the usual Geezer fight in the checkout isle. This one old bat was clocking another gentleman with a can of french cut beans. Their wives wanted me to stop the fight. I asked why? I wanted to see one or the other knock their dentures out. They got real bloody. Personally, I thought it was great. We even saw an old Jabba the Hut Geezer knock a young person with a cast and crutches out of an electric cart, toss out her groceries and drive off.
I remember when I had my knee replaced, and I was hobbling around with crutches shopping at the old Stop and Shop near my town. I remember the pain I was in and how hard it was to just go down the isle.
I would call them animals, but animals do not act like that. We even saw a Geezer in one of the electric scooters, driving around the parking lot with his cane, keying the cars. He was saying, today is the day for the blue cars. He was keying blue cars! WTF!
Then when you see a white hair, they are the people who are pushing their carts. They say excuse me, and ask if you can help them when they need it. Mostly they try to not be a burden to anyone. We do see a few.
Tequila, the anticipation is indeed far greater than the removal. Even if there is some pain, it is over quickly. Mostly, you are going to walk better than you have in a long time.
Just think what you can do to Edog when he is in this position.
Actually, I think he is trying pretty hard. Probably too hard.
Lots of vitamin E. It really helps.

Takila, bless your heart. Glad to hear you are doing well, and up and around. I have heard the staple removal is pretty easy (from my sis, who has had 3 C-sections?)

My pet peeve is people who use the handicapped spaces/carts/etc., even if they don't need it.
My aunt IS totally handicapped. We have major issues, when attempting to transport her.
We did get a handicapped thingy to hang from the rear view mirror. I have NEVER used it, unless I had Aunt Susie with me.

Once you are aware, it's amazing how many people use that status! Case in point: I was waiting for my family to get out of Wal-Mart, prior to Christmas. Yep, I was standing outside for 5 minutes, doing something I should not have been doing... OK, I had a cigarette. In that time, I saw 3!!! people pull into handicapped places, get out of their vehicles and walk quickly, healthily and purposefully into Wal-Mart.

So I went and checked. 2 actually had the plates to back it up; one had the thingy hanging from the mirror. But none of the 3 actually had a handicapped person with them.
I thought that was pretty lame!

So you go, gal, and take advantage of those motorized shopping carts while you can. Drive one home! Borrow it for a few weeks? Haha.
There have been days when I sure wanted to use one! There have also been days when I had to pull my boys away, and say NO! As fun as it looks, you can't do that....