Surgery 6-13.

[IAN442]

Okay this is my rant, im looking at 6/13 on the calendar and they are gonna pop open my chest to fix this hernia that got twisted around some fat,,,,yea im a big fat bastard at 6 foot 3 and 270 pounds...

The plan is for them to reopen me up from the first time they put a screen in back in 2001 when this all started and use a camera to locate any other problem areas and scope and fix them all at once.

Upon finishing, i swear im going to the gym here and working out. I have so much pent up frustration and energy and i have no real place to direct it.

I will soon run out of things to destroy and i have no more forest of wood to chop down and a fireplace to burn it in...

My plan is to adjust to a low sugar high protein diet high in water consumption.

That coupled with steak quesdillas from taco bell, diet pepsi, and i dropped 15 pounds in about 6 weeks.

But my body has become so damn annoyingly sore....pain in the upper calf below my right knee, and my spinal cord sends shocks of pain down each of my legs at times should i not sit down properly...(i've already had L-4/L-5 pulled at 21 and spent the prior 6 months before that limping)...

Im just sick and tired of the pain, i refuse to load up on pain meds for anything unless i absolutely have no choice.

Im pinning hope on this surgery to fix my chest so that i can get a clean bill and step back into the gym during my hours here at work as part of my physical therapy and i can improve upon what i once had.

its not that im a weakling,,,i pretty much move what i want when i want to...I threw the old dishwasher out the back door down the steps when no one was looking. then i scooped it up and power slammed it into the dumpster at the dump because part of it fell on a toe.


I spent this whole weekend outside more or less moving junk and eliminating debris...i filled up my whole van, and got rid of it today.

I think i have like one more load, its the sorting shit out i hate.

im also in the middle of buiding a set of shed doors, plus working on some computers, and working my paying job.

In other words im a busy little bastard.


Thing is,,, i intend to use this procedure to try to change things, not becuase people have bitched at me about how i look and how i soldier on, but becuase i want to get rid of the man tits, the gut and the stick legs. its funny and hard to believe at one time while i was in the air force, i was lean, trim, and really cario wise healthy.

i want that back, but just bigger muscle....








Slamming soapbox down now.

 

[zombieblondie]

fat guys are awesome.

 

[IAN442]

Thank you for the laugh....i choked on my diet pepsi....

 

[whitey131]

fat guys are awesome.

Where were you 3 years ago.

 

[bRaTpRiNcEsS]

Thank you for the laugh....i choked on my diet pepsi....

Your problms and symptoms sound very much like my husband. I don't have four hours to write all of his problems down, but they're all centered around his back. Two surgeries already, another one coming as soon as the courts get off their dead ass and give us yet another judgment. It all sucks. But he refuses most pain meds, also. Just about every person he's related to has an addictive personality and he doesn't even want to go there.

I can't say I feel your pain, but I can tell you that I know a lot more about it than most people.

 

[IAN442]

yeah i got back trouble still if i really over do it, luckily now its a localized pain versus down my legs and can't move them pain.

its hard to get up and sit down especially in my car somedays when im pain.

putting on socks has become a real bitch again and i usually try to get by most of the time with sandals i can slip in easily.

I wont take the pain meds becuase i sucked down 2400 mg a sitting of motrin pre surgery since that was the only painkiller available to me while i was in ther service overseas remotely. I tried taking my flexeril and well i bounced my head off the tires of the plane while pullling the chocks i was so groggy.

That episode almost got me sent home early, luckily i pleaded my case and switched my shift to night instead of day so i could sleep more.

 

[IAN442]

I got my paperwork in the mail yesterday....it seems im not gonna be outpatient this time but inpatient instead. I gotta feeling this one is gonna be a doozie to fix my ass up.

Maybe they'll bust out the shop vac and suck some that fat laziness outta me....LOL

They better be good, i control their access to the computers at the hospital .....

 

[manmademonster]

I went in to have a hernia fixed and they found I actually had FOUR hernias. The other three were just being held in by the giant scar on my stomach (from a previous surgery that actually caused my hernias). I almost died from the previous incident, so hernia surgery was no big deal. And I HATE pain meds. They make me sick.

My hernia looked like I was trying to sneak a football around under my shirt. I named it Quato (kudos if you get the reference). People who haven't seen me in a couple years still come up and ask about Quato.

 

[IAN442]

Manmade your in the same boat as me man,,,i got that turkey under my shirt going on.

i had a hernia fixed previously and now they are going back in again. im on my out the door for testing today.

 

[MyHatred]

My dad just had hernia surgery about a year ago and get this, his doctor had to remove thirteen hernia's. His doctor said it was a first for him and he hadn't seen anyone with that many. MSU ended up filming the surgery for educational purposes because it is not often that they have ran into cases like my dad's...He was in bad shape for quite a while. I didn't think he was going to make it because his blood sugar plummeted so bad and he looked like death warmed over . He has had the surgery done 5 time now over the course of his life. I will more than likely also get some hernia's down the road because pretty much every guy in my family has had the surgery done(including my 6 year old cousin..poor kid). Good luck dude...I don't know how you couldn't take pain meds for that one...My dad looked like he was in some serious pain.

 

[IAN442]

Yea im not allowed them this close to surgery. But i ruptured a disc between L4 and L5 back in 1995. I've spoken about the time in the air force and serving over in saudi when the real shit hit the fan and i couldn't get out of bed....

i was responsible for servicing u-2 spyplanes for flights across iraq....and i went to get out of bed and couldn't move my legs...i settled for a roll and pull and found that my leg went numb couldn't move it more than 30 degrees.

while there i saw a british accupuncture specialist but that was about the extent of care....the other docs just gave me motrin which i ate in massive unsafe quantities and sometimes a muscle relaxer here and there....i was like that for like 3 or 4 months.

at work i took to a floor creeper to get around to do the work, and used my upper body to pull my self all over the plane to do what i needed to do. I rode a bicycle, climbed cliffs, and walked a lot with no let up of pain.

soon as the surgery was done that leg pain was gone, but it took close to 5 years for the tendons and things to heal right again enough that i could resume doing what i love to do...working on cars and working outdoors.

Now i got the hernia shit and this piece of fat...thats right fat, choking off my abdominal wall so i look like i got a damn turkey stuffed under my t shirt midsection.

When my gall bladder got infected in 2004 they were gonna do the hernia then but the thing was my insides could have been really infected from the hernia so they decided against it.

MyH, i think i have a high pain tolerance. i often have done lots of physical labor with nagging pains of some sort for some time. Painkillers just never seemed to address the issue, just made other ones.


Like the time i took valium,,,the air force doc, sent me back to work on active runway ..... LOL

I got back to my desk at the hangar. sat down and started doing paperwork,,,and my head literally flipped over backwards and i was snoring when someone walked in yelling....all i did was hold up that bottle of valium and they were like what the fuck ??? GET OUT OF HERE !!!! i was escorted back to my dorm room and promptly slept off the effects.


Another time i got muscle relaxer,,,and i thought oh whats another 10 mg of flexeril....well i was underneath a running plane ready to pull chocks and i fell asleep and bounced my head off the tires...they almost shipped me back to the states for that stunt...

Pain is just part of what i deal with, im in pain now,,,i've learned about some muscle that deep in you hip that can cause symptoms synonomous with the same pain experinced by lower back pain sufferers.

 

[sufferer]

Okay this is my rant, im looking at 6/13 on the calendar and they are gonna pop open my chest to fix this hernia that got twisted around some fat,,,,yea im a big fat bastard at 6 foot 3 and 270 pounds...

The plan is for them to reopen me up from the first time they put a screen in back in 2001 when this all started and use a camera to locate any other problem areas and scope and fix them all at once.

Upon finishing, i swear im going to the gym here and working out. I have so much pent up frustration and energy and i have no real place to direct it.

I will soon run out of things to destroy and i have no more forest of wood to chop down and a fireplace to burn it in...

My plan is to adjust to a low sugar high protein diet high in water consumption.

That coupled with steak quesdillas from taco bell, diet pepsi, and i dropped 15 pounds in about 6 weeks.

But my body has become so damn annoyingly sore....pain in the upper calf below my right knee, and my spinal cord sends shocks of pain down each of my legs at times should i not sit down properly...(i've already had L-4/L-5 pulled at 21 and spent the prior 6 months before that limping)...

Im just sick and tired of the pain, i refuse to load up on pain meds for anything unless i absolutely have no choice.

Im pinning hope on this surgery to fix my chest so that i can get a clean bill and step back into the gym during my hours here at work as part of my physical therapy and i can improve upon what i once had.

its not that im a weakling,,,i pretty much move what i want when i want to...I threw the old dishwasher out the back door down the steps when no one was looking. then i scooped it up and power slammed it into the dumpster at the dump because part of it fell on a toe.


I spent this whole weekend outside more or less moving junk and eliminating debris...i filled up my whole van, and got rid of it today.

I think i have like one more load, its the sorting shit out i hate.

im also in the middle of buiding a set of shed doors, plus working on some computers, and working my paying job.

In other words im a busy little bastard.


Thing is,,, i intend to use this procedure to try to change things, not becuase people have bitched at me about how i look and how i soldier on, but becuase i want to get rid of the man tits, the gut and the stick legs. its funny and hard to believe at one time while i was in the air force, i was lean, trim, and really cario wise healthy.

i want that back, but just bigger muscle....








Slamming soapbox down now.

Dude I've been slacking at the gym myself but now that I have an MP3 player I've been going non-stop. Put some Thrax on there and you'll look forward to going, at least that was what worked for me. I can slam some crazy weights and go on a treadmill for a while as long as I have metal blasting in my ears. I have back problems myself at 29 even though I'm not that much overweight. My pain shoots down my right leg all the way to the ankle, it came from doing squats (I squatted 500 lbs in college). Do all my lifts sitting down now. If you don't have an MP# then get one and take it to the gym, it will motivate you. Good luck

 

[KY_Fried442]

Few things can drive a person insane and bring them down like back pain. Just hang in there and don't overdo it until you're ready and you'll be alright. Don't get yourself hooked on the pain medication either. I have a good friend that's in really bad shape from being addicted to pain meds he took for his back problems. Now his back is the least of his problems .

 

[DumbAss]

I just had sergery too.
The Breasts look real but when will these scars around my nipples go away?

 

[karrokid]

will this surgery be, WITH NO ANESTHESIA so you can FEEL THE KNIFE PIERCE YOU INTENSELY
that would be metal.