Laid Up Bad!
05-17-2015, 01:37 AM
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Laid Up Bad!
So I went in last Monday for an outpatient back surgery and woke up in ICU with a spinal fluid drain and instructions to lay perfectly flat for 5 days. Something got tore up that they'd usually fix with some stitches but the thing kept tearing so they did a graft and the temporary drain.
Meanwhile, the back drain compressed a bunch of nerves that went completely numb, including half my junk and my butt. So now when I want to take a leak I have to shove a tube up my shlong. Self catheterizing is very close to the feeling I get when I go to the MB Service cashiers window. 4x a day.
Urologist saw me and just handed me a bag of free caths and told me to expect it could last for a few months. Everybody thinks it's temporary but if it's not, somebody's medical malpractice insurance is buying me an s600 Maybach with a custom urinal. I'm serious. (Maybe not about the urinal)
Needless to say I haven't driven yet (was on Oxy) but I do like to just sit in the S and play the radio. It's really a beautiful car and I take it for granted. I'm not inclined to trade it like I was thinking before the surgery.
Anyway, the actual point of the thread was to apologize to some guys here who I genuinely like but for some reason couldn't stop being a dick towards, namely Dave and ATC.
Life is too short to treat people that way over stupid stuff, so I'm sorry. Feel free to make fun of the fact I can only feel half my pecker, because I certainly would.
Oh and if anyone is contemplating a surgery of any kind and you hear the rate of serious complications is 3% or 5% that's true, but remember that 3 or 5 represents actual people of which you could become.
Meanwhile, the back drain compressed a bunch of nerves that went completely numb, including half my junk and my butt. So now when I want to take a leak I have to shove a tube up my shlong. Self catheterizing is very close to the feeling I get when I go to the MB Service cashiers window. 4x a day.
Urologist saw me and just handed me a bag of free caths and told me to expect it could last for a few months. Everybody thinks it's temporary but if it's not, somebody's medical malpractice insurance is buying me an s600 Maybach with a custom urinal. I'm serious. (Maybe not about the urinal)
Needless to say I haven't driven yet (was on Oxy) but I do like to just sit in the S and play the radio. It's really a beautiful car and I take it for granted. I'm not inclined to trade it like I was thinking before the surgery.
Anyway, the actual point of the thread was to apologize to some guys here who I genuinely like but for some reason couldn't stop being a dick towards, namely Dave and ATC.
Life is too short to treat people that way over stupid stuff, so I'm sorry. Feel free to make fun of the fact I can only feel half my pecker, because I certainly would.
Oh and if anyone is contemplating a surgery of any kind and you hear the rate of serious complications is 3% or 5% that's true, but remember that 3 or 5 represents actual people of which you could become.
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05-17-2015, 02:51 AM
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Wish you the best in the road to recovery. Sounds painful & hope it all goes well.
I just got back from from a 90 min drive round trip drive in the S to drop off some items at my in laws and the S is really a comfy and spirited freeway cruiser. My daily is a mini van and the driving feeling is just 180 degrees. The S is the wife's dd and she says use the S, it more comfy😄.
I just got back from from a 90 min drive round trip drive in the S to drop off some items at my in laws and the S is really a comfy and spirited freeway cruiser. My daily is a mini van and the driving feeling is just 180 degrees. The S is the wife's dd and she says use the S, it more comfy😄.
05-17-2015, 03:02 AM
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Wow Mike. I was wondering what came of the BMW, now I know. Very sorry to hear about your situation. I do hope that things get sorted out soon. Hang in there and keep us posted...
05-17-2015, 09:00 AM
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05-17-2015, 09:01 AM
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Wish you the best in the road to recovery. Sounds painful & hope it all goes well.
I just got back from from a 90 min drive round trip drive in the S to drop off some items at my in laws and the S is really a comfy and spirited freeway cruiser. My daily is a mini van and the driving feeling is just 180 degrees. The S is the wife's dd and she says use the S, it more comfy😄.
I just got back from from a 90 min drive round trip drive in the S to drop off some items at my in laws and the S is really a comfy and spirited freeway cruiser. My daily is a mini van and the driving feeling is just 180 degrees. The S is the wife's dd and she says use the S, it more comfy😄.
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05-17-2015, 11:48 AM
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So I went in last Monday for an outpatient back surgery and woke up in ICU with a spinal fluid drain and instructions to lay perfectly flat for 5 days. Something got tore up that they'd usually fix with some stitches but the thing kept tearing so they did a graft and the temporary drain.
Meanwhile, the back drain compressed a bunch of nerves that went completely numb, including half my junk and my butt. So now when I want to take a leak I have to shove a tube up my shlong. Self catheterizing is very close to the feeling I get when I go to the MB Service cashiers window. 4x a day.
Urologist saw me and just handed me a bag of free caths and told me to expect it could last for a few months. Everybody thinks it's temporary but if it's not, somebody's medical malpractice insurance is buying me an s600 Maybach with a custom urinal. I'm serious. (Maybe not about the urinal)
Needless to say I haven't driven yet (was on Oxy) but I do like to just sit in the S and play the radio. It's really a beautiful car and I take it for granted. I'm not inclined to trade it like I was thinking before the surgery.
Anyway, the actual point of the thread was to apologize to some guys here who I genuinely like but for some reason couldn't stop being a dick towards, namely Dave and ATC.
Life is too short to treat people that way over stupid stuff, so I'm sorry. Feel free to make fun of the fact I can only feel half my pecker, because I certainly would.
Oh and if anyone is contemplating a surgery of any kind and you hear the rate of serious complications is 3% or 5% that's true, but remember that 3 or 5 represents actual people of which you could become.
Meanwhile, the back drain compressed a bunch of nerves that went completely numb, including half my junk and my butt. So now when I want to take a leak I have to shove a tube up my shlong. Self catheterizing is very close to the feeling I get when I go to the MB Service cashiers window. 4x a day.
Urologist saw me and just handed me a bag of free caths and told me to expect it could last for a few months. Everybody thinks it's temporary but if it's not, somebody's medical malpractice insurance is buying me an s600 Maybach with a custom urinal. I'm serious. (Maybe not about the urinal)
Needless to say I haven't driven yet (was on Oxy) but I do like to just sit in the S and play the radio. It's really a beautiful car and I take it for granted. I'm not inclined to trade it like I was thinking before the surgery.
Anyway, the actual point of the thread was to apologize to some guys here who I genuinely like but for some reason couldn't stop being a dick towards, namely Dave and ATC.
Life is too short to treat people that way over stupid stuff, so I'm sorry. Feel free to make fun of the fact I can only feel half my pecker, because I certainly would.
Oh and if anyone is contemplating a surgery of any kind and you hear the rate of serious complications is 3% or 5% that's true, but remember that 3 or 5 represents actual people of which you could become.
05-17-2015, 12:43 PM
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You are in my prayers. A friend had a similar leak post spine surgery. They went back 4 weeks later and repaired the leak. Complications developed from the leak repair were different from yours and were extremely serious but after 2 procedures, all cleared up now and 100% back to normal. PM me for my cell and we can visit on my friends details.
05-17-2015, 12:53 PM
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Plus if I need the ***** to send a PM now I can only feel one of them.
05-17-2015, 09:19 PM
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So today my 21 year old came by to hang out with the old man and he took me out in the S to run some errands. I haven't walked more than 10 steps in s row. Great to be out in the car and walking around again but I'm sore as hell now. It's a good sore though since its in all of the "dead" areas. Like the man said, pain means you're alive.
Oh and some pee came out the regular way tonight. That's a victory.
Oh and some pee came out the regular way tonight. That's a victory.
05-18-2015, 12:18 AM
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05-18-2015, 01:53 AM
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Mike I wish you an extremely fast recovery. And sending you and the family all the prayers we can . I was In a similar kinda situation but for my liver and if I listened to the surgeon I would not be writing this today .
05-18-2015, 08:38 AM
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So I went in last Monday for an outpatient back surgery and woke up in ICU with a spinal fluid drain and instructions to lay perfectly flat for 5 days. Something got tore up that they'd usually fix with some stitches but the thing kept tearing so they did a graft and the temporary drain.
Meanwhile, the back drain compressed a bunch of nerves that went completely numb, including half my junk and my butt. So now when I want to take a leak I have to shove a tube up my shlong. Self catheterizing is very close to the feeling I get when I go to the MB Service cashiers window. 4x a day.
Urologist saw me and just handed me a bag of free caths and told me to expect it could last for a few months. Everybody thinks it's temporary but if it's not, somebody's medical malpractice insurance is buying me an s600 Maybach with a custom urinal. I'm serious. (Maybe not about the urinal)
Needless to say I haven't driven yet (was on Oxy) but I do like to just sit in the S and play the radio. It's really a beautiful car and I take it for granted. I'm not inclined to trade it like I was thinking before the surgery.
Anyway, the actual point of the thread was to apologize to some guys here who I genuinely like but for some reason couldn't stop being a dick towards, namely Dave and ATC.
Life is too short to treat people that way over stupid stuff, so I'm sorry. Feel free to make fun of the fact I can only feel half my pecker, because I certainly would.
Oh and if anyone is contemplating a surgery of any kind and you hear the rate of serious complications is 3% or 5% that's true, but remember that 3 or 5 represents actual people of which you could become.
Meanwhile, the back drain compressed a bunch of nerves that went completely numb, including half my junk and my butt. So now when I want to take a leak I have to shove a tube up my shlong. Self catheterizing is very close to the feeling I get when I go to the MB Service cashiers window. 4x a day.
Urologist saw me and just handed me a bag of free caths and told me to expect it could last for a few months. Everybody thinks it's temporary but if it's not, somebody's medical malpractice insurance is buying me an s600 Maybach with a custom urinal. I'm serious. (Maybe not about the urinal)
Needless to say I haven't driven yet (was on Oxy) but I do like to just sit in the S and play the radio. It's really a beautiful car and I take it for granted. I'm not inclined to trade it like I was thinking before the surgery.
Anyway, the actual point of the thread was to apologize to some guys here who I genuinely like but for some reason couldn't stop being a dick towards, namely Dave and ATC.
Life is too short to treat people that way over stupid stuff, so I'm sorry. Feel free to make fun of the fact I can only feel half my pecker, because I certainly would.
Oh and if anyone is contemplating a surgery of any kind and you hear the rate of serious complications is 3% or 5% that's true, but remember that 3 or 5 represents actual people of which you could become.
05-18-2015, 08:43 AM
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Wish u speedy recovery, I had my hip replaced in January at 35 yrs old ..it sucked not being able to get around. Unfortunately I also learned what a catheter felt like. My prayers are with you. Actually kinda what landed me in the Benz I had been browsing before the surgery as soon as I could hobble around with my cane I found the car I had previously wanted hobbled to the dealer and drove it home.
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05-18-2015, 11:06 AM
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My best wishes , get well soon and have a speed recovery
05-18-2015, 05:37 PM
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Wow Mike, Really sorry to hear about your surgery and complications. Here is wishing you a speedy and full recovery and a full staff recovery. Thoughts and prayers.
