Don't Touch The Sides!

I don't normally blog about my personal life, it's just not something I do. However, tommorow is a rather different occasion.

I am going into hospital to have an operation, it's only a small one mind, really very minor, but I have a phobia of needles, so the local aneasthetic is likely to be the worst part of the whole event for me, i'm literally going to freak out, I was stressing over it so much yesterday that I erupted into the worst stress induced stomach ache of my entire life (you know, the horrible ones with the sulpher belches and everything gets worse from there)

So anyways, i'll be around but forgive me in advance if i'm not myself the next few days, although if I get my way, i'll be right back home (like I said, the op itself really is very minor they aren't keeping me in hospital, but I freak out about medical procedures) and relaxing by playing Duke 3D, and I might even treat myself to something new, maybe Castle Crashers or the Outrun remake.

Anyhows, wish me luck :D I'll probably be a little hepped up when I return so if I start posting anything completely illegible, just point and laugh and i'm sure i'll leave you a venomous comment when I return to my normal self :)

Peace out.

UPDATE:

It's over and done with! Well, some of it lol.

As I said before it's only such a minor operation that I really have no right to complain, but i'm going to. It freaked me the fuck out so much I nearly puked on the operating table, and after they removed the first lump and stitched me up, I asked them not to continue with the second one, and they stopped the operation. (I think I offended the surgeon, but the guy was a complete prick throughout the entire process, and obviously had never heard of bedside manner, and flat out insulted me several times during the whole process) I don't care what the surgeon said, telling me I could feel nothing didn't alleviate the fact I could indeed feel some things. Perhaps the aneasthetic was not working as it should have, perhaps it's area of effect was too small, whatever, all I know is it was fucking horrible, I went from feeling nothing in some areas, to intense pain right next to it. But it's over and done with now and once it's healed I will be able to sit in a chair without excruciating back pain.

Hooray! :D Minirant over and done with, by all standards it probably went quite well, my opinion is obviously skewed being the one on the table nervous as all hell and with a dodgy stomach that morning to boot. In short i'm back! :D

I'm sure (in fact, I know) plenty of other people have been through things much worse than this and complained probably far less, but i'm not as strong as those people :) Medical procedures scare me lol, and this experience didn't change that.

I don't normally blog about my personal life, it's just not something I do. However, tommorow is a rather different occasion.

I am going into hospital to have an operation, it's only a small one mind, really very minor, but I have a phobia of needles, so the local aneasthetic is likely to be the worst part of the whole event for me, i'm literally going to freak out, I was stressing over it so much yesterday that I erupted into the worst stress induced stomach ache of my entire life (you know, the horrible ones with the sulpher belches and everything gets worse from there)

So anyways, i'll be around but forgive me in advance if i'm not myself the next few days, although if I get my way, i'll be right back home (like I said, the op itself really is very minor they aren't keeping me in hospital, but I freak out about medical procedures) and relaxing by playing Duke 3D, and I might even treat myself to something new, maybe Castle Crashers or the Outrun remake.

Anyhows, wish me luck :D I'll probably be a little hepped up when I return so if I start posting anything completely illegible, just point and laugh and i'm sure i'll leave you a venomous comment when I return to my normal self :)

Peace out.

UPDATE:

It's over and done with! Well, some of it lol.

As I said before it's only such a minor operation that I really have no right to complain, but i'm going to. It freaked me the fuck out so much I nearly puked on the operating table, and after they removed the first lump and stitched me up, I asked them not to continue with the second one, and they stopped the operation. (I think I offended the surgeon, but the guy was a complete prick throughout the entire process, and obviously had never heard of bedside manner, and flat out insulted me several times during the whole process) I don't care what the surgeon said, telling me I could feel nothing didn't alleviate the fact I could indeed feel some things. Perhaps the aneasthetic was not working as it should have, perhaps it's area of effect was too small, whatever, all I know is it was fucking horrible, I went from feeling nothing in some areas, to intense pain right next to it. But it's over and done with now and once it's healed I will be able to sit in a chair without excruciating back pain.

Hooray! :D Minirant over and done with, by all standards it probably went quite well, my opinion is obviously skewed being the one on the table nervous as all hell and with a dodgy stomach that morning to boot. In short i'm back! :D

I'm sure (in fact, I know) plenty of other people have been through things much worse than this and complained probably far less, but i'm not as strong as those people :) Medical procedures scare me lol, and this experience didn't change that.

fear of needles? I used to fear them; all I can say is just look away and calm down.

Haha, there's no danger of that, it really is such a small operation that I could do it at home with a kitchen knife and there'd be little danger of death (although it is close to my spine)

I'd lie back and think of England, but i'm no patriot, i'm a gamer! So i'll be thinking of Street Fighter :P

Anesthetic is administered via the lungs, not through the veins, so you're all good there. Now the stitches...

While you are out, try to think of a picture for your avatar. Just playing, hope it goes well.

Good luck man. I can't really give any advice on the needles, I've only been given general aneasthetic before, but I guess don't look is probably a good. Besides you want have much time to panic after the needle you'll be fast asleep and happyyyyyyyy. 

Good luck with the operation man, I wish you the best. 

Yeah, I had surgery earlier this year. It wasn't fun, they did a spinal injection as well as this really weird stint system that caused me to use craploads of blood. I was 'awake' during surgery but I couldn't see or feel what was going on (thank goodness for that because they cut open my ankle to put a metal apparatus inside), but afterwards I became so cold that my heart rate started to drop rapidly (though, medically speaking I might be putting the cart before the horse). I almost had a heart attack and I'm 23! Not that I'm the healthiest person in the world, but still... it was kinda weird.

Anyways, didn't mean to scare ya or nothin', A_D, just... uh, well, don't agree to participate in any sort of experimental anaesthetic delivery system.

Me having Diabetes, I am not allowed to have a fear for needles 0.o

You got an avatar, (Y).

I got a mole removed once near my ear. It wasn't the anaesthetic shots but the feeling of knife cutting you while not feeling the pain. Ugh.

J/K it wasn't that bad. Bit gross though. GL with the operation!

Nice avatar!

I hate needles to. When I had a operation last summer, the nurse needed to put a iv in. She missed like three times. My hand swelled and turned brown. Grrr. Plus I had to get poked with a needle three times.

Atleast you're not getting a needle through your foot.

Good luck with the operation and here's to a speedy recovery.

Hope everything goes well for you.  I'll keep good thoughts going.  Give us an update when you can.

I'm back, it's done, and in a day or so I should be feeling great :D

Congrats on surviving your operation! Surgery is a freaky thing

I would have got lightly stoned, alongside having a local anesthetic and Nytox, that's what I did when I had a cyst removed from my eyelid when I was a teenager,

If it was removal of a abscess in subcontainious fat it shouldn't have needed to take very long, but if you found it too traumatic, I do understand. Medical phobia's can be quite severe in some people, but when that's the case a good reassuring doctor is what you deserve. You should have made the surgeon fully aware of the severity of your fears, or implied a phobia. He may have reacted better and informed you of techniques that would have helped with blocking out thoughts and pain.

To be fair though, if it was on your back, it's very difficult to avoid a patient feeling pain and discomfort, limbs can be numbed far easier than one's back. I know given my back issues right now : / (strain) There a ton of nerve ending surround the spinal cord, which is why some back pain is said to be as bad as child birth. Even minor procedure's in that region can be very painful.

Needles aren't fun, but at least the surgery was a success... and yeah, I had my fair share of encounters with pricks who didn't believe that when they jabbed a needle into my pelvis that I actually could feel six inchest of hypodermic-ness in my muscle xD