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Jun. 11th, 2014 03:18 pmSO HEY you guys remember when a robot ripped my gallbladder from my still-living body? GOOD TIMES RIGHT?
It turns out the "no lifting more than twenty pounds for six to eight weeks" rule totally is there for a reason and really you shouldn't decide that lifting a fifteen pound item is okay because it's not quite twenty pounds. And it's not just because you might pop your stitches, which for the record I did not do.
It's also because of something called an incisional hernia, which is where a bit of your insides gets partially outside due to an incompletely healed incision in your abdominal wall. Guess who has two thumbs and a hernia on his bellybutton?
I went to the doctor and they said because I was "in pain, but not enough pain" I am not an urgent case. Apparently you have to be feverish and vomiting to get a look in around here. So I'm meeting with a surgeon next month sometime to see about getting unherniated.
I'm naming him George II. There was no George I, I just think George II sounds more regal.
It turns out the "no lifting more than twenty pounds for six to eight weeks" rule totally is there for a reason and really you shouldn't decide that lifting a fifteen pound item is okay because it's not quite twenty pounds. And it's not just because you might pop your stitches, which for the record I did not do.
It's also because of something called an incisional hernia, which is where a bit of your insides gets partially outside due to an incompletely healed incision in your abdominal wall. Guess who has two thumbs and a hernia on his bellybutton?
I went to the doctor and they said because I was "in pain, but not enough pain" I am not an urgent case. Apparently you have to be feverish and vomiting to get a look in around here. So I'm meeting with a surgeon next month sometime to see about getting unherniated.
I'm naming him George II. There was no George I, I just think George II sounds more regal.
