A fun surgery

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hog88 said:
When my wife shattered her leg I wrote "wrong leg" in sharpie on her good one. After surgery the doc said my message was cute, I asked him why and how did he see it if he wasn't about to cut on the wrong one.

He never did answer.
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lol that's hilarious.
 
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GreveHaller said:
Not sure if you've ever had a nerve block before but doesn't matter whether you have it or don't, you get the pain no matter what. Its a matter of now or later.

I had one when I had rotator cuff sx. It was a lunch-ish sx time so all was well. Until I went to bed. About midnight I came straight up out of bed. All pain that wasn't there stored up and came back at one swoop.
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Well I'm taking Percocet 10 mg every 4 hours and an OTC pain killer in between those, so hopefully it won't be to god awful.
 
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Ask the doctor, secretly, if he will give you a bionic arm. Promise that you will use your new power only for good.
 
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The Ron Mexico said:
Ask the doctor, secretly, if he will give you a bionic arm. Promise that you will use your new power only for good.
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I considered asking him to make me look like Jax from Mortal Kombat, but I was afraid he would give me a blackoplasty like Kyle had on South Park
 
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GreveHaller said:
Not sure if you've ever had a nerve block before but doesn't matter whether you have it or don't, you get the pain no matter what. Its a matter of now or later.

I had one when I had rotator cuff sx. It was a lunch-ish sx time so all was well. Until I went to bed. About midnight I came straight up out of bed. All pain that wasn't there stored up and came back at one swoop.
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For my shoulder surgery, I started taking the painkillers well before the nerve block wore up. Nurses told me that before I was discharged.
 
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TheDeeble said:
For my shoulder surgery, I started taking the painkillers well before the nerve block wore up. Nurses told me that before I was discharged.
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I did also. But at 1:30 Tuesday morning, I def knew it had worn off.
 
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Vol8188 said:
I did also. But at 1:30 Tuesday morning, I def knew it had worn off.
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I think mine wore off in about 12-16 hours. Did yours completely numb your arm? The nerve block I got made my arm numb and limp like a dead fish. Couldn't move hand/fingers. You could have hacked it off with a machete and I wouldn't have felt a thing.
 
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TheDeeble said:
I think mine wore off in about 12-16 hours. Did yours completely numb your arm? The nerve block I got made my arm numb and limp like a dead fish. Couldn't move hand/fingers. You could have hacked it off with a machete and I wouldn't have felt a thing.
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Yes, but I could move my fingers,but I couldn't feel that they had moved.
 
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GreveHaller said:
You don't realize how heavy an arm is until you try to lift someone's who had a nerve block
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I had a nerve block from a hand surgery a few years back. I was watching one of UT's Pearl teams, which was often exciting. I stood up quickly out of the chair after a Lofton 3 and flat out hit myself in the face with my dead arm slinging up with momentum
 
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(Not kidding). When I had my second eye surgery, worst thing ever! They can sedate you but they can't put you asleep. So, you're awake while they put a needle in your eye to try to reattach the Retina.. I don't wish it on anyone but bombers and child molesters
 
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Has anyone here ever had rotator cuff surgery? What was your recovery time and was it worth it?
 
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Cyclopskiller said:
(Not kidding). When I had my second eye surgery, worst thing ever! They can sedate you but they can't put you asleep. So, you're awake while they put a needle in your eye to try to reattach the Retina.. I don't wish it on anyone but bombers and child molesters
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That sounds absolutely terrifying and I hope that it is behind you and you don't have to worry about it anymore.

It is a little funny that you had to preface that comment with a (not kidding) though!

Sorry! Eye really am laughing with you lol
 
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hog88 said:
Has anyone here ever had rotator cuff surgery? What was your recovery time and was it worth it?
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A friend of mine did, got tired of cortisone shots. I think it was about 4 months before he was cleared to go 100%.
 
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