In the spirit of CFH, what surgeries have you had?

[aauummm]

i have had 15 surgeries, including two cancerous tumor removals and two c-sections.

You win.

 

[cowgirl836]

I started young. I stole my older sister's "big girl" bike and went for a joy-ride at the ripe old age of six. Going downhill, swinging my feet, swung one back too close to the back wheel. Caught my heel in the spokes, nearly severed my achilles tendon, stopped the bike dead and I flipped *** over teakettle over the handlebars & landed chin first on the street. Broke the left side of my lower jaw. Had to have it surgically screwed back together & my jaw wired shut. For three loooooooong months. I was the only kid in first grade that had to take baby food to school for lunch.

cousin broke her jaw probably about 8 years old. I still remember her talking about the jello and tomato soup diet. Think she got hers riding a bike as well.

 

[iowa_wildcat]

I won't even try to compete with Angie! Sorry girl. Your history makes going is for a vasectomy 40 years ago sound like a walk in the park.

 

[cowgirl836]

yeah Angie sounds like she could start her own IV.

 

[carvers4math]

Wisdom teeth. Scar revision surgeries.

 

[jdoggivjc]

Fistulotomy. If you really want to know that badly, do a Google-search.

 

[CRcyclone6]

1. Uvularpolatoplasty 2003
2. Thyroglossol duct cyst removed 2004
3. Stent placed in left anterior decending artery January 28, 2015
4. My wife had a brain aneurysm coiled almost 10 years ago at Mayo.

 

[Doc]

You win.

Fistulotomy. If you really want to know that badly, do a Google-search.

I'm not sure Angie wins anymore.

 

[bawbie]

I think bawbie's interests me the most. Liver donor a close 2nd. Though he explained the donation.

Why thanks. 2 spontaneous collapsed lungs when I was 21 within 3 months. It's rare, but not totally uncommon, especially for tall skinny young men. 5 days in the hospital after 3 weeks at my first job out of college. Oh, and chest tubes are unbelievably painful.

http://www.m.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/tc/collapsed-lung-pneumothorax-topic-overview

 

[Cy83ag]

I've been blessed, just tonsils when I was a kid.

 

[jdoggivjc]

I'm not sure Angie wins anymore.

Let's see... Cancer, or literal "butt-hurt". Angie wins hands down.

 

[stormchaser2014]

I woke up for 2 seconds when I was having my wisdom teeth out. I remember people standing around me and my mouth was wide open.

 

[jdoggivjc]

My wife has also had her gallbladder removed. Gall stones were being dropped into her pancreas, causing pancreatitis, and that left untreated can kill someone.

 

[cowgirl836]

Why thanks. 2 spontaneous collapsed lungs when I was 21 within 3 months. It's rare, but not totally uncommon, especially for tall skinny young men. 5 days in the hospital after 3 weeks at my first job out of college. Oh, and chest tubes are unbelievably painful.

http://www.m.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/tc/collapsed-lung-pneumothorax-topic-overview

spontaneous? YOUR LUNGS CAN COLLAPSE SPONTANEOUSLY?! I mean, I thought pneumothorax was something bad but what, two of them? That is insane.

 

[cowgirl836]

My wife has also had her gallbladder removed. Gall stones were being dropped into her pancreas, causing pancreatitis, and that left untreated can kill someone.

ooooooooooooooo DH got pancreatitis a couple years ago and the dr thought it was cause he was a drunk.

 

[cowgirl836]

I woke up for 2 seconds when I was having my wisdom teeth out. I remember people standing around me and my mouth was wide open.

that is terrifying. You aren't allowed to talk anymore. I am the first of four c-sections for my mom and while I want kids, I am terrified of going the family route and needing the knife............then feeling it halfway through.

 

[cowgirl836]

Let's see... Cancer, or literal "butt-hurt". Angie wins hands down.

I stupidly googled your thingy, and now I want to know what the problem was.

 

[BoxsterCy]

Small bowel resection 1988. Doctors want to do it again. I do not want the redo. It's a standoff.

Fun trip to CR 50 years ago to have Dr. Foster rebreak and reset my baseball smushed nose.

 

[BoxsterCy]

Angie is clearly the winner even if we can't count the likes on her post. "Liking" seems so inappropriate.

 

[Havs]

Had my jaw reconstructed in 2007 and an appendectomy in 2008.