Back surgery, and first shot with the 50mm

[Adam Hicks]

Arghhh they turned me into the Terminator!

http://www.golilm.com/images/back.jpg

Yuck. Sorry you had to see my nasty incision!

:cry:

[DocFrankenstein]

:shock: :shock: :shock:

Are those standard staples?

Post a larger pic, so we can see the scale. What did u go for surgery for?

[Adam Hicks]

Haha yeah it looks like they took a standard desk stapler and went to work! That's definitely a scaled down versoin, I figured it was scary enough.

They all come out on Tuesday, and I then have 5 days to get to a point where I can board a 7 day cruise! Doctor approved it, so I just have to continue working on my recovery. So far so good.

Adam

[drisley]

:shock:
I think I'm gonna hurl :oops:
That is so gross. I've never had any type of surgery, and I dont look forward to it.

[defordphoto]

Hey! Now others can use you to test front/back focus on their cameras! NO MORE RULERS! :lol:

[Adam Hicks]

ROFL! :P I hope everyone already ate!

[chops]

If you can twist all the way around to take a picture of your own back, it's no wonder you had to have back surgery! LOL :wink:

[DocFrankenstein]

Hey! Now others can use you to test front/back focus on their cameras! NO MORE RULERS! :lol:
I wonder what the front focus test is gonna be like :lol:

[robertwgross]

:shock:
I think I'm gonna hurl :oops:
That is so gross. I've never had any type of surgery, and I dont look forward to it.

I resemble that remark.

I just hope that Adam got a model release.

---Bob Gross---

[drisley]

Adam, never mind the health aspect, I think you may have a backfocus problem :shock:

http://www.fotop.net/albums/sharpnsmart/miscellaneous/backfocus.jpg

[Adam Hicks]

Ooh that's scary that you had to stare at that thing long enough to put numbers on it and blur some of them! I'm frightened and confused :)

[wolf]

Yes, that is definitely a backfocus problem.

[CyberDyneSystems]

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:



Not at the Idea of surgery mind you .. but BackFocus.. ! Bwahahaha


Hope you are fit as a fiddle for your Cruies! :)

[jhankins]

Wife had back surgery about 3 years ago. Same appearance. She had 3 discs worked on l4, l5 and s1. While I can't say I have had back surgery, I can appreciate the nature of the problem. Best wishes to a speedy recovery. And take it easy!

[Tom W]

If you can twist all the way around to take a picture of your own back, it's no wonder you had to have back surgery! LOL :wink:

Looks like they've installed a ball joint back there! :)

Seriously, glad that you got through it OK. The back is a very intricate system.

[Yeager]

Here are mine but not from surgery.

http://www.pbase.com/nekard/image/22363506.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/nekard/image/22363508.jpg

[jhankins]

So if not from surgery.....wrong place, wrong time?

[Yeager]

I got one of those big ass shots in my hip, passed out, feel on the metal seringe box on the floor, nurse tried to catch me, tore through my shirts and my skin. Just a bunch of staples.

[jhankins]

Just the thought of that makes me cringe. I hope it worked after all that. Jeez. (And don't they usually go in series of 3 or 4??)

[Yeager]

not this time.

[CyberDyneSystems]

I got one of those big ass shots in my hip, passed out, feel on the metal seringe box on the floor, nurse tried to catch me, tore through my shirts and my skin. Just a bunch of staples.


Hah.. I almost passed out in an Emergency room when they took a blood sample! (fortunaetley I was sitting down anyway) I was running a fever and then the blood work... and "whoaaaa'

The nurse was laughing at me and calling all the others around to look at me.. apperently I was turning all different shades of white and green. All I could see was tunnel vision and light!

[IanD]

OK here is a great oppertunity to show off your scars. I got a couple of knee trans scars that are really good. Stay tuned!

[Belmondo]

I got one of those big ass shots in my hip, passed out, feel on the metal seringe box on the floor, nurse tried to catch me, tore through my shirts and my skin. Just a bunch of staples.


Hah.. I almost passed out in an Emergency room when they took a blood sample! (fortunaetley I was sitting down anyway) I was running a fever and then the blood work... and "whoaaaa'

The nurse was laughing at me and calling all the others around to look at me.. apperently I was turning all different shades of white and green. All I could see was tunnel vision and light!


CDS:
I don't think you're a good candidate for a vasectomy. :oops: :lol:
Definitely not for the squeamish.

[cmM]

oooh man what the heck is this thread?

Drisley you are one sick man ! :P lmfao

Adam, I hope you get well soon. I've never had any parts of my body broken, no surgeries, despite some "extreme" sports that I practiced.

Man, those things do look like standard staples.

[Yeager]

They are "surgical staples". Basically the same thing the old swingline takes.

[Adam Hicks]

Yeah, the same thing as the old swingline with one small exception... they probably cost $10 a staple!

So far I've only broken an arm on a 4 wheeling accident otherwise, so I'm not doing TOO bad.

Adam

[Tom W]

Well, I suspect that surgical staples are stainless steel - have you had a tetanus shot lately? :)

[DocFrankenstein]

Hah.. I almost passed out in an Emergency room when they took a blood sample! (fortunaetley I was sitting down anyway) I was running a fever and then the blood work... and "whoaaaa'

The nurse was laughing at me and calling all the others around to look at me.. apperently I was turning all different shades of white and green. All I could see was tunnel vision and light!
Hmm...

I had the misfortune of seeing an 11 year old girl hit by a bus and had her head squished by the wheel. In the end she just looked like one big gunshot wound... I looked at it and then just nauseated for 5 times.

Sometimes I still wake up from sounds of a cracking skull. :?

Looked something like this: (really gory stuff)
http://images.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http://www.suicidemethods.net/pix/thurston.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.suicidemethods.net/pix/thurston.htm&h=444&w=368&sz=55&tbnid=X0x-li9je34J:&tbnh=123&tbnw=102&start=5&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dgunshot%2Bwound%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26s a%3DN

It's real bad. Now, with the video cameras videly available you get all kinds of videos on the net... Tortures... decapitations... pics of ballistic wounds...

[cmM]

DocFrankenstein, that is the worst website I've ever seen in my entire life, suicidemethods.net. I don't know what made me look through a few of those images, but I really doubt I'm gonna have a good night sleep tonight. I'm not a sensitive person, but that sh!t will take anyone's apetite away. :~( :O :|

[BearSummer]

There are some images you just dont need inside your head, and after reading the url I think that a website called suicidemethods is gonna have quite a few. I think this is a case of glad I read the link before clicking.

Doc, I realize that its sometimes good to share the "misfortune" that you experience, helps to get it out of your system, but dude, there is a time and a place. Thanks for including the (really gory stuff) warning, but would have thanked you more if you had included that at the top of your post.

Best Wishes

BearSummer

[DocFrankenstein]

but when do you draw the line on censoring yourself?

My gf stops when she sees achne :roll: "eww... that stuff is gross"

For some, adam's scar is gory and "too much"... even though I think it looks beautiful. (congrats on it healing nicely... knocks on wood)

Then you have stuff like other med procedures. Gory... to an extent. Humans are nasty...

Then you have a friend of mine... and his physiology lab. 20 something cats before he got the first one to survive his operation. Is that too much?

First aid falls right there with gunshot wounds.

I dunno... I'm not pushing or anything...

But this stuff actually happens to people... and it's better for you to know what to do when it happens and be prepared. Because if you expect someone to look like an anatomy textbook when something happened and you're the one giving first aid...

Anyways... I had a nice instructor in First Aid :lol: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

Something you have for life :twisted: :twisted:

[BearSummer]

Hi Doc,

Where do you draw the line... at the point where the damage/hardship it causes outweighs the benefits you get. Seeing a compound fracture so that you kno whow to deal with it is one thing and is usefull to a first aider, seeing what happens to a body when it meets the pavement from ten floors doesn't do 99% of people any good, most people wont have to bag the bits up, so why lose sleep over something that you wont gain anything from...

FYI i've been a first aider for 12 years and have dealt with everything from a broken arm to a skull fracture crossed with a partial scalping (kid on bike no helmet meets tree). My point was that there are some things you just dont need to lose sleep over.

Best Wishes

BearSummer

[Adam Hicks]

Yeah while I appreciate Doc's kind words, I too think that might be a little too much for your average browser to handle. He did put a warning on it... at least next time he puts a warning people will pay attention :)

But I agree that there really isn't any educational value in something that extreme unless you're a criminal investigator or coroner.

Adam