So I got cut open.

[GirlGamer]

I've never had surgery, but I'm terrified if I have to. My medical condition makes me allergic to most anesthetics, so if I have to have surgery, I'll have to go without or hope that they have the (fairly rare) types of anesthetics I'm not allergic to, or I might not wake up after. I really hope I never have to get surgery. (At least not in a poorly-equipped hospital.) Although, I know people who go through surgery, and ASK to not be put to sleep because "it's interesting to watch," and "I can tell them when they're doing it wrong," so maybe it wouldn't be TOO bad, but still.

I have, however, gotten stitches from a variety of things... I got blindsided by a plank of wood, dropped on my face when I was a little kid, etc.

 

[dmase]

I think i can pretty much beat anybody here with scars. I sometimes produce keloids that spread out along a wound instead of something like a scab. its pinkish in color and from where i broke my arm i have a z shaped scar. I even have some keloids from smaller scrathes like my cat biting me that won't end up going way ever.

When i broke my arm i was four(even then i was clumsy) i was jumping over a cooler playing follow the leader fell and chicken winged my arm. Went to the docter had my surgery and as i woke up drowsy as hell i saw two pins that looked like they where jammed through my arm. A nurse came around and as soon as she saw my arm said, oh you poor thing, and i started to cry like crazy.

 

[dmase]

I've never had surgery, but I'm terrified if I have to. My medical condition makes me allergic to most anesthetics, so if I have to have surgery, I'll have to go without or hope that they have the (fairly rare) types of anesthetics I'm not allergic to, or I might not wake up after. I really hope I never have to get surgery. (At least not in a poorly-equipped hospital.) Although, I know people who go through surgery, and ASK to not be put to sleep because "it's interesting to watch," and "I can tell them when they're doing it wrong," so maybe it wouldn't be TOO bad, but still.

I have, however, gotten stitches from a variety of things... I got blindsided by a plank of wood, dropped on my face when I was a little kid, etc.

...interesting to watch? Hey doc I read on wikipedia about this and you are defintely doing it wrong.

Copious amounts of alcohol thats how they did it in the olden days. And with IV fluids no hangover from black out drunkness.

 

[Macgyvercas]

I've had my wisdom teeth removed. I also had surgury to remove a pilonidal cyst. The doctor wanted to keep me overnight, but I told him "The hell with that, I've got a date tonight."

 

[GirlGamer]

...interesting to watch? Hey doc I read on wikipedia about this and you are defintely doing it wrong.

Copious amounts of alcohol thats how they did it in the olden days. And with IV fluids no hangover from black out drunkness.

Nah, he knows what he's doing, and the doctors who were doing it were medical students who actually were making mistakes.
Admittedly, they were using weights to break his leg (it hadn't been set properly the first time so they had to break it and start over), and were putting the weights in the wrong places. That would probably be easier to tell if they're doing it right than say... a heart surgery or something. The whole lack of leg-breaking being one tip-off. I don't think if they were giving him heart surgery he'd be saying, "You're doing it wrong." He'd shut up and trust the doctors. But for the situation he was in, yes, he knew what he was doing and happily informed them that they weren't doing it properly.
My apologies for not being clear in the original post.

IV... would they give me a needle for that? I'm scared of needles... cripplingly so.

 

[Jonabob87]

In 2006 I got cut open and 10 disks taken out from between vertibrae in my spine, with titanium rods to hold my spine in place until the vertibrae fused into 1 big vertibrae.

I win.

 

[Cid Silverwing]

I've had a total of 5 surgeries done on my legs. Twice on left, thrice on right, because I was born with clumpy feet (stuck in the fetal position) the doctors had to literally slit apart. No physical evidence for it however.

Sometime at age 7, I think, I had a tumor removed from the left side of my head. I was left with a permanently damaged balance nerve.

At some point earlier I was put under for dental extraction. I forget how many, all I remember was it felt like I had worms hanging from my palate.

 

[dmase]

...interesting to watch? Hey doc I read on wikipedia about this and you are defintely doing it wrong.

Copious amounts of alcohol thats how they did it in the olden days. And with IV fluids no hangover from black out drunkness.

Nah, he knows what he's doing, and the doctors who were doing it were medical students who actually were making mistakes.
Admittedly, they were using weights to break his leg (it hadn't been set properly the first time so they had to break it and start over), and were putting the weights in the wrong places. That would probably be easier to tell if they're doing it right than say... a heart surgery or something. The whole lack of leg-breaking being one tip-off. I don't think if they were giving him heart surgery he'd be saying, "You're doing it wrong." He'd shut up and trust the doctors. But for the situation he was in, yes, he knew what he was doing and happily informed them that they weren't doing it properly.
My apologies for not being clear in the original post.

IV... would they give me a needle for that? I'm scared of needles... cripplingly so.

You could go into the hospital for almost anything and you have to have an iv put in. its like a tube with a needle attached that gets put in a vain(I had mine put in my hand). They can then just hook whatever that what to that small tube. It gets much worse when its in there for a few days it starts to itch and heal over.

... have you ever had a vacination? I mean i get a fear of needles but a crippling fear sounds like you grabbing on to the door frame as nurses try to restrain you. Or you just pass out but then i don't see the problem.

 

[GirlGamer]

... have you ever had a vacination? I mean i get a fear of needles but a crippling fear sounds like you grabbing on to the door frame as nurses try to restrain you. Or you just pass out but then i don't see the problem.

I cry like a baby and have someone hold my hand. I'm getting better though, they had to take blood, and I didn't cry THAT much, and no one held my hand for that.
I just use "crippling" to refer to my past of running away and hiding whenever a needle was even in the same room as me.

 

[NJ]

Do you mind me asking why? Or is that too personal? I'm intrigued.

I had two separate torsions. I didn't catch the second one. It had...explosive properties.

Taking "being blown" to a whole new level, I'm sure.

 

[dmase]

... have you ever had a vacination? I mean i get a fear of needles but a crippling fear sounds like you grabbing on to the door frame as nurses try to restrain you. Or you just pass out but then i don't see the problem.

I cry like a baby and have someone hold my hand. I'm getting better though, they had to take blood, and I didn't cry THAT much, and no one held my hand for that.
I just use "crippling" to refer to my past of running away and hiding whenever a needle was even in the same room as me.

At a young age my docter said i'll right i'm gonna poke you on 5. One... two... stab. It was just like woah thats quick.

 

[Parallel Streaks]

Hmm, I'm having Scoliosis surgery in 3 months. They tried to make me wear a corrective brace when I was little, but I was fickle.. and a dipshit, so I didn't. Now me back's gettin' all sliced up.

I hope I don't get paralyzed. That'd just be TYPICAL.

I've also had ocular surgery, though that was when I was small and blurry on the details of general life.

OO, also, I had to have my tummy cut open when I was a baby 'cos I was tubed incorrectly. Life was a ***** when I was little.

 

[TimeLord]

I have had surgery on my right knee because the tendon swelled and exploded my kneecap

 

[MelziGurl]

I had a skin cancer removed from my face when I was 14. They gave me about 5 shots of local anaesthetic but that was it, awake for the entire surgery.

 

[Mr Metzger]

I broke both bones in my left arm after falling off a trampoline (dangerous stuff they are) and had serious nerve damage. The doctor gave me morphine and I could not feel anything, anywhere. Had surgery the next day to reset the bones. My arm is still crooked almost 3 years after

 

[superbatranger]

When I head back to the US, I'm getting my deviated septum fixed. I don't if or even when I'll get my wisdom teeth removed. Last, but not least, I had a certain operation when I was 7 or 8, the details of which are not pretty.

 

[Valkraye]

I had my tonsils removed a few years ago. And then a vein in my throat hemorrhaged a few days later, right after the pain subsided. That was fun. Other then that I've had toes operated on, four wisdom teeth removed in one sitting, a lump removed from my throat/neck and some general stitching to solve a few dumb-ass induced problems.

 

[Xpwn3ntial]

I get my wisdom teeth taken out tomorrow....

Hi five. Right there with ya.

 

[StonkThis]

I've had teeth pulled, gums scraped, tonsils and adenoids removed, I will need my wisdom teeth out. I hate my mouth.

 

[Chogg Van Helsing]

Well, I had cancer. So I had my face cut open several times to remove all of it... The result? No more cancer, but potential infertility (which I will actually kill things if i am) and a cataract in the eye that was opperated on.