As many here know, I have been in the hospital a few times. Believe me, it's not fun waking up in pain with a tube in your throat just about every time the doctors cut you.
The first time was in 2001 when I had gastric bypass. I now have a scar from just below the top of my belly to the bottom of it. I lost about 100 lb, the gained 50 back. The only thing is that I developed a hernia on my left side about where the appendix would be if the hernia was on the other side.
Well, the doctor that did the surgery said that it was several hernias. It was the size of a grapefruit, so I guess so. He sewed the up and added a stiff mesh to my belly to help keep it together. So maybe I have a bionic belly.
Last year, I went to the Emergency [A & E] Room because of my left leg. It was swollen with infection and the doctor had to drain it. I still have an open wound from it where he excised some dead tissue.
Now, I am going to therapy where they wrap the legs to compress them down so I can eventually wear surgical stockings. So, who knows, I may be wearing women's pantyhose soon.
May Your Light Forever Shine
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leg pain
I was in the same boat as you but I had leg ulcers on both my legs for 8 months before I could get doctors to put what is called una boots on my legs for three months which were changed each week. I know wear support socks and have to lotion on my legs to get the skin to heal and return to normal color. I rather wear the support socks then have the sores. ps. normal pantyhose actually aggravates the legs then help them.
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Jenna From FL
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Jenna From FL
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TopShelf BigCloset
It is a long road ahead but I will finally become who I should be.
Among my many medical
Among my many medical problems, is that I developed celulitis in both legs. This and edema have required me to wear compression stockings for over 2 years. In Jan 2007 I had to have an abscess drained in my right leg surgically. Yes I've had to wear a una boot too on a few occasions.
Danielle
"Abscess makes the heart grow fonder."- Groucho Marx
Daniel, author of maid, whore, bimbo, and sissy free TG fiction since 2000
What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.- Oscar Levant
Abscess makes the heart grow fonder...
There was this guy (there usually is) with a terrible flatuence problem, but what made it worse is that over time it was very audible and made a sound like HONDA. He went to doctor after doctor and to specialists, had colonoscopy, and they could find nothing wrong. Finally one gastro-intestinal specialist suggested taking him to a medical convention with him, to use as a professional show and tell to see if anyone had any ideas.
The went to the convention, and at the session on puzzling cases, he was introduced, and of course his digestive tract proceded to demonstrate its flatuence. The HONDA sound caused more than a few titters, but most of the assembled medical wisdom were shaking their heads. Finally a timid hand rose from the back with the diffident voice, slightly accented, saying "I sink I may be able to help. May I examine plez?"
Of course he was invited up to the stage, and he turned out to be a slim Japanese. The assembled doctors sorta expected a typical lower GI finger exam, but the doctor asked him to open his mouth, asked for a light, and pulled out a dental mirror. He looked in the man's mouth, nodded and said "Ahh, I see plobrem". He opened his small case and removed some dental tools and numbing agent, and proceded to extract a tooth!
After the procedure, as often happened to our poor unfortunate sufferer, he broke wind, but silently, without the audible HONDA. Everyone was really impressed. The doctor who brought the patient asked how he knew what to do. The young and diffident Japanese doctor smiled, bowed slightly, and said,
"Ahhh. Awr Japanese dentists know that Abscess make the fart go HONDA".
Sorry, I couldn't resist!! See what I meant by my mental age?
CaroL
CaroL
Orange
A young man noticed that his penis had turned orange and went to his doctor to find out why.
The doctor performed many tests and couldn't find a reason for the unusual color of his patient's manhood.
The doctor asked the young man, "Maybe it is environmental, Tell me about your day."
The patient answered, "There's not much to tell you, I work a 60 hour week and don't have time for a social life. I usually leave work late and stop on the way home to rent a porno, buy a six pack of beer and a bag of Cheetos."
Mr. Ram
Graduated Compression Support Hose
Graduated compression support hose, either thigh high or waist high can help with leg circulation. I wear waist high or pantyhose if you will at times. I don't have any thigh highs but have thought of trying them. My prescription says that I only have to wear a knee high on one leg but there are time that support on both legs feels good.
Panty Hose make me claustraphobic.
I put them on but after a while something about the heat on my upper thighs just makes me feel panicky. I actually got up from my desk once an RAN to the ladies room to get them off! I was almost screaming by the time I got them off! Gah !!!!
Now garter stockings or thigh highs are OK; they don't bother me in the least. Someone once told me that women who wear stockings are screwed up in the head. Hah, they don't know the half of it, do they?
Gwendolyn
As long as we're shareing medical procedures
I had my tonsils out when I was ten!
Sorry, that's all I got!
Mr. Ram
Hah
I still have my tonsils, nerny, nerny nerny, Arecee