DONT go to the doctor!

thomthom

@john.warburton said:

I was offered a sponge bath too - but by a male nurse.

EW! Yeah I had to get my nuts shaved by a male nurse, not the most fun thing I've ever had done! Now I do it myself every couple of days just in case, so I never have to experience that again!

I did it myself before my hernia operation. They gave the option in advance and while I was about to go under the knife, I felt more at ease shaving myself in that area. Operation went well, went home the same day, the main discomfort was that during the trip back I started feeling sick - which I was the instant I opened the car dock. Think it was the drugs I reacted to - never could take too much liquor either without the same effect. I was told to stay in bed for a couple of days, with option in morphine, ibuprofen and paracetamol. Never used the morphine in fear of going sick again - didn't really need it. My fellow students was eye-balling it though - had to keep it safe. Quit the ibuprofen very quickly as well, don't really want to take pills - I'd rather have some slight discomfort than whatever side-effect the pills might bring. Nurse came around after a couple of days - then I was on my own and I opened the door to her surprise.
When I was at the hospital there was a guy who went into surgery before me - I was in a room with other hernia patents - and he was crawling in pain. I looked over at the guy in the bed next to me, and he had the same puzzled look as I had - "did it hurt so much for you?". Guess it depends on how quickly it's taken. But I'm glad the lump was just a hernia and not something else. My doctor said to not worry - but to me a hernia was good news compared to what I'd started to worry about.