Well I'm back from surgery. I just spent 15 minutes in an awkward position here at the computer writing up my experience only to LOSE it when I hit the back button in error!
Lets just say so far so good. When I have the energy to re-type the narrative, I'll be back. I'm OK and doing fine....I really impressed the hospital staff with how well I tolerated the surgery.
I haven't had a BM yet
More to follow
Hugh :joker:

awesome man!
you're my hero
you're my ROCKY
i was worried there a bit.....
recover well friend......

:afro:
yea!!!!!! :alien: :alien: :bounce:
im so glad for ya!..keep us posted... now get some rest!

4:45 A.M. My wife escorts me to “A.M. Admit” -- by 5:15 I have an IV hooked up to my hand and the nurse has drawn a little smiley face on the tape. The gesture helps. I get a “carnaval ride” on the stretcher up to the sixth floor. I have another nurse asking the same questions as the A.M. Admit nurse. Everyone is warm and professional.
I never see my surgeon before the procedure. I don’t remember “getting the gas,” so to speak. To be honest, as an ex-EMT, all this medical stuff, the needles and other pointed, sharp paraphenalia -- doesn’t bother me.
The thought of what the surgeon is about to do to my butt doesn’t really bother me.
Surving the GA, THAT is what bothers me.
So I say to my anesthesiologist (Dr. Green (pseudonym))…”Hey, it’s pretty safe, just 5 outta a million never make it back out of the OR…”
Well,” he chimes in, “Actually it’s more like one in twenty-thousand…”
I quickly change the subject…
I awake from the operation in a cruel, hard chill..it feels like a cherry-bomb has gone off in me arse. A kind soul quickly delivers one…then two…then three (maybe even four) doses of dilaudad IV until I’m happy and pain-free.
A young, thirteen-year-old male is in severe distress on a table nearby…the staff is trying to console him. The poor fellow is crying out in moans and begging them not to touch his foot.
I am truly distracted from my own plight, suddenly humbled.
In minutes my wife is back with me and I don’t have long to wait to get my room. Did I say they wanted to keep me overnight? This carnaval ride is even better than the first, though muuuuch slower.
So I’m sitting in my bed, stuffing down that oh-so-delicious clear liquid diet product. I feel nauseated…soon I’m grabbing a pan…one belch and I’m suddenly NOT nauseated (of course, the shot of phenergan didn’t hurt).
I was completely unaware of how much of a pin-cushion my “cheeks” were about to become.
From noon to about three O’clock, everything’s FINE. I’m doing crossword puzzles, despite the Percocet haze. No pain.
Then at around 3:30 I realize that I haven’t peed. I feel the need. Then I discover the truth, what I feared would recur from my appendectomy four years ago. I couldn’t pee.
Two hours later I’m hopping and hinting broadly to the staff that I might need a cath…just in and out to open up the pipes. I finally get one. The urgency gets worse instead of better when it’s inserted, even though I can see urine flowing down the tubing.
My nurse states, “If there’s more than 300 CC’s, I have to leave it in.
“Please take it out, I can’t stand this!”
“It’s up to 275 CCs, I have his orders not to take it out…
The woman was a saint. She saw how it was killing me, and even though I produced quite a bit more than 300ccs, she took it out. But it would be morning before my bladder began to feel normal again -- throughout the night my bladder always felt half-full. My pipes now opened up by the brutual intrusion of the latex catheter, I could pee again.
That, my friends, was the worst part of this whole experience. I have yet to have any seriously bad pain in the ass, except immediately after the surgery. It was REAL sore after the ride (sixty miles) home from the hospital. It took it a couple of hours to return to a relatively pain-free state, but that’s where I’m at right now as I write…sitting in my desk chair on my left butt cheek. I doubt I'm going to heal as fast as Giz seems to have, but the outlook seems promising.
No BM yet, but I feel a STRONG urge.
The throne awaits...
Hugh

Awww Hugh, your story had me on the edge of my seat - what a great writer you are!!
Im so pleased your arse is ok and you are ok.. I just know that when you finally do have your first BM, you will be pleasantly surprised... gosh you may even try and hug the toilet wall like i did :lol!:
You keep hanging in there.. remember lots of salt baths, lots of fruits and vegies and keep on smiling.. WOO HOO another new arse for xmas!!!!

I've very proud of you, Hugh!!! Congratulations!!!!
You'll see, the first BM is no big deal. Much better than before the op!
Best wishes for a quick and sustained recovery!
Geneviиve

After a day and a half, I took two dulcolax. Last night I had a runny, liquid BM that REALLY burned, and the same again this morning. No sphincter spasms, however.
The doc has me on mepergan and vistoril for the pain, and toradol for inflammation. I'm trying not to take too much of the pain medicine. The surgery site hurt half the day yesterday, then felt much better the rest of the day. This morning I just have some residual stinging from the liquid BM. :bounce:
Thanks to all of your for your support and encouragement!
Hugh

hugh, you make me wanna have my surgery!
i would like to keep tabs on you to see your recovery time from surgery to the time you feel well to go back to work. this will help me gauge the time off i will need to estimate for my own experience when it does happen.
i am proud of you!
thanks for updating us.
here's to truly having a new perfect ass starting in 2007 :D

ithurtstosit wrote:After a day and a half, I took two dulcolax. Last night I had a runny, liquid BM that REALLY burned, and the same again this morning. No sphincter spasms, however.
The doc has me on mepergan and vistoril for the pain, and toradol for inflammation. I'm trying not to take too much of the pain medicine. The surgery site hurt half the day yesterday, then felt much better the rest of the day. This morning I just have some residual stinging from the liquid BM. :bounce:
Thanks to all of your for your support and encouragement!
Hugh

Hugh,
rememer when i first had my surgery, i was put on too many lax's and i had runny BM's that burned also - be v. careful, lessen the lax's, increase the fibre and softener - seriously, if you have too many runny burning BM's that can be just as painful and dangerous in the end as a firm stool :shock: I learnt the hard way - and had 3-4 v. painful days after surgery when they neednt have been...
I am so glad you are doing this well though - a great inspiration to all our folk here :santa: HAPPY NEW YEAR mr NEW ARSE :rendeer:

Way to go Hugh :D Glad you finally went thru with it - however you MUST listen to cheryl,, you know she is right, must take less laxatives, she had the same problem and found getting rid of those and using the softeners and fibre helped.
Dont be scared about the BM, the softener will take care of that - you know i am nearly cured too so we are all here to help each other along.
you will be A-ok very soon.
Happy new year my friend
love
Annie