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greenbriar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 11:02 PM
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How many surgeries have you had?
I have had 12

5 on the same thing. I shattered the talonnavicular bone in my right foot about 12 years back and had several surgeries on that issue alone ...

actually had to have some bone taken from my right hip and had it ground up and added to fake bone to remake the shattered bone



to this day, I can tell you when it is going to rain by how badly my foot hurts
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Breeze54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 11:06 PM
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1. Dental included?
At least five oral surgeries and 2 D&C's

Never had any major surgery though.
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greenbriar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 11:11 PM
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6. I counted my wisdom teeth removal but not extractions ect...I based it on going under
mostly
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Breeze54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-24-08 01:08 AM
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20. I was 'under' for all of them...
and I probably need back surgery (C4 & C5) but the insurance companies
didn't give a shit and left me like this after my car accident. :grr:
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NNadir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 11:07 PM
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2. Counting dental surgeries, three.
After the major one - without which I would not have lived - I was in a coma for three days.

The other two were relatively trivial.
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harmonicon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 11:08 PM
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3. zero - not even anything minor
It kind of creeps me out.... I really should probably have my wisdom teeth taken out (if only because they're making my other teeth crooked, and those braces to straighten them in the first place weren't free), but the idea of elective surgery I find really troubling. If there was something serious, I don't think I'd hesitate to have it done though.
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ThomCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 11:10 PM
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4. 4
Edited on Wed Jan-23-08 11:20 PM by ThomCat
Circumcision
Wisdom teeth removed
Laproscopy on my Kidney
and slicing open a cyst.

Not nearly as bad a history as many people. I'm fortunate. :)
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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 11:10 PM
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5. 4 or 5 including dental...
2 or 3 not including dental.
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Drum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 11:14 PM
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7. 3: tonsils out, deviated septum repair, and knee surgery.
Edited on Wed Jan-23-08 11:16 PM by Drum
Pity that the knee one went the worst of the three....

Edit: how'd ya shater that heel so badly? As a dancin' person, I know foot pain, but your experience eclipses anything I've gone through. Kudos to you!
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greenbriar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 11:19 PM
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9. stepped in a floor safe at work, back when I was going to college we were slammed
busy and I knew I had twisted it, but it wasn't till later that exrays showed it shattered. A bone scan later revealed it was way dense to start with



the T-navicular bone is the major "knuckle" bone of the foot


the last surgery fused all the bones and left me with small rotation limits
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Drum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 11:38 PM
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15. Ow,ow,ow...
I hope it's only manageable pain. Sounds like quite the odyssey. :hug:
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RainDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 11:15 PM
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8. Had my wisdom teeth taken out
and a tonsilectomy.

other than that, except for giving birth to my kids and one trip to the emergency room b/c of a hellacious migraine, I've never been in the hospital or had surgery. I've been lucky.
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texanwitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 11:21 PM
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10. Only dental.
Just wisdom teeth.

No pain afterwards.
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 11:25 PM
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11. Eleven
20 year cancer survivor. That territory does not come without a lot of surgery.
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1gobluedem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 11:26 PM
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12. Three
Two for tendon release in my wrist, one for removal of a brain tumor.
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Flaxbee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 11:29 PM
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13. None, unless you count having a finger sewn back on
... but I wasn't under general anesthesia, so I guess it doesn't qualify.
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Connonym Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-24-08 01:26 AM
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25. um, ouch
I'd say that counts
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 11:37 PM
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14. Just one, correcting a birth defect a few days after I was born.
They didn't put me under or even use a local- it did take six people to hold 7 lb me down- but these days they're over the idiotic idea that neonates don't feel pain and definitely would have used a general, so I'm counting it.
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Robeson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 11:39 PM
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16. Several. But a positive, is that I lost all fear of needles...
...especially after begging for shots when post-op pain kicked in...
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madrchsod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 11:41 PM
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17. i think 8 and three angioplasties..
2 major surgeries last year...and another sometime this summer...
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-23-08 11:46 PM
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18. Well, it depends on how you define "you", of course.
Edited on Wed Jan-23-08 11:46 PM by Rabrrrrrr
:silly:
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Blue_In_AK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-24-08 01:02 AM
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19. Zero.
And I've only been hospitalized once in my life (I'm 61 now). I even had my kids at home. I am very thankful for my good health. :)
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-24-08 01:09 AM
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21. Hmmm...5-6?
Two for snapped femur, 1 other, 2-3 dental....
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totodeinhere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-24-08 01:13 AM
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22. Four
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Joe Fields Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-24-08 01:18 AM
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23. I've had seven major surgeries and need two more.
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Connonym Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-24-08 01:25 AM
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24. 6 plus several oral surgeries
the oral surgery is the worse -- I've had at least 3 skin grafts in my mouth because evidently I brush my teeth too hard and my gums get shredded. They take a skin graft off the roof of your mouth and I think that probably hurt more than any of the abdominal or breast surgeries I've had. I've had D&C, appendectomy, tubal ligation, breast reduction, breast cyst removal, intestinal surgery. Plus a brazillion suspicious moles removed -- does that count as surgery?
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Solon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-24-08 01:29 AM
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26. One, tonsils were removed when I was 8. n/t
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trackfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-24-08 01:42 AM
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27. I've been knocked out 4 times:
Tonsils; tooth extraction; hernia; biopsy.

I've been cut into a few other times, but under local anasthesia.
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libodem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-24-08 01:44 AM
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28. seven
4 female type and 3 spinal. And I've also been put out twice for wisdom teeth. Man, I don't think I had been counting. Hope I still have a few brain cells left.
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krispos42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-24-08 03:11 AM
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29. Not a one
When I was maybe three I tripped and fell into the remains of a broken bottle in my front yard (thanks, litterbugs) and I needed a couple of stitches over my eye. Or so my parents tell me.

Aside from a couple of fillings, I'm golden. Even after a major car accident when my Suzuki Samurai was T-boned by an Oldsmobile. The damn thing flipped over on it's side, but all I got was two bruises!
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taterguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-24-08 06:23 AM
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30. One
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Angel Donating Member (423 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-24-08 07:41 AM
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31. I've had 4
open heart surgery at age 5

tonsils out

female surgery to get pregnant and a tubal 3 yrs and 2 children later.
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MissMillie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-24-08 07:48 AM
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32. I have been put under general anesthesia 6 times
wisdom teeth
tonsils
tubal ligation
gall bladder/hernia
gastric bypass
hernia
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EstimatedProphet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-24-08 07:59 AM
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33. Depends on how surgery is defined
I have a recurring problem with ingrown toenails, and had them taken out at least a dozen times when I was 13-17. So if we're counting that as a surgery, probably 25 or so.
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Burma Jones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-24-08 08:10 AM
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34. Two, Tonsillectomy and Appendectomy
The Appendix went bad on the morning of Election Day 1996, so I didn't vote that year. The tonsils came out when I was 4.
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Iggo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-24-08 10:08 AM
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35. 2 plus 1.
Emergency hernia surgery when I was a mere 2 weeks old.

Hernia surgery again when I was 7 yrs old.

And at age 43 I had seventeen teeth pulled in one sitting...ten of them broken off at the gumline. (Don't do drugs, kids.) I wish I had been put under for that one.
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xmas74 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-24-08 10:09 AM
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36. A couple
none planned. I am planning one for when I turn forty. (Breast reduction.)
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BarenakedLady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-24-08 10:10 AM
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37. 4
tonsilectomy and 3 c-sections.
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SacredCow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-24-08 10:23 AM
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38. Two
tonsillectomy and hernia repair.
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Lyric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-24-08 10:31 AM
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39. Three
A tonsillectomy when I was 15, a c-section delivery when I was 20, and gallbladder removal 2 years ago.
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Orsino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-24-08 01:02 PM
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40. An appendectomy in 1970. That's it, so far.
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