Originally Posted by shapelike
One of my best "raw blinding pain" moments happened when a resident had to rearrange my intestines (from the outside) after a post-abdominal surgery mishap. Got an assload of demoral after that one though.
That sounds most unpleasant. How exactly does someone "rearrange" your intestines from the outside? I'm kind of scared to ask, because I think I know.
Originally Posted by shapelike
The topper has to be the time a surgeon literally tore open a healing incision in my pelvis (about 5" deep) because it was closing up too quickly and they were worried about infection. Good times, good times.
I've never broken anything "doing stuff," but damned if I don't hate hospitals.
Ok, that is way beyond nasty. I hate hospitals-the whole set up is not really designed to allow you to recover. I spent 3 weeks in Sunnybrook after a nasty head hits pavement kind of event, and it was not an experience I'd care to repeat. The technical care (surgery etc) was excellent, but they need to think more about the psychological side of recovery.