Hernia surgery

I am a victim of a cruel disease on the face of humanity. I am speaking of the terrible thing called a "hernia". I found out I was with Hernia at age 31. It was a scary thing, because I noticed a lump in my groin. I went to the doctor and he confirmed what I thought. Well, not so much, I thought the lump might be something worse. Like some kind of lymphoid thing, forgive me but I am not a person who tries to learn alot of terminology, It was a lump in my groin!! I was told it was an inguinal hernia. That put my mind at ease because I was thinking cancer.I followed up with a surgical consult about two weeks after that. Upon meeting with the surgeon, I dropped my pants and let him grope me. At my dismay, he told me that the lump was a lymphoid. But he did feel that there was a hernia in my groin. He told me that he could do a biopsy of the lymphoid, but felt it was not cancerous because it has shrank in size since I first noticed it. I told him no because I am prone to lumps, growths, and swollen glands. Heine site, I should of had the biopsy done, but Heine site is 20/20. The surgeon schedules me for surgery a week later.Fast forward to the surgery, I am pretty cool knowing I am going to get surgery. I had my wisdom teeth pulled, so I know what it is like to be put under, so I thought. I get prep for surgery and speak with the nurse, so far so good, then the anesthesiologist comes in. He asks me to stick my tongue out, open my mouth, and bite my upper lip. Then he lets me know that there may be some damage to my teeth from the breathing tube. It took a few seconds to sink in, but I was being told I was going to get that breathing tube, that you see on TV hospital sitcoms, placed in my mouth and then continued down my throat until it was in a good place to make sure I can breath if I was no longer able to breath on my own. Its all good because the anesthesiologist told me that I would be asleep when they placed it in my throat. I felt compelled to tell him I have a sensitive gag reflex and that I have yawned two times and had my jaw lock open, and I immediately freaked out and punched my face/jaw until it was no longer locked in the open position. He put me at ease by saying "that is fine" and I replied "Hurry up so I can be home!"So I proceed to the pre op room where I get a visit from my surgeon. He goes through the the basics with me and places an X on my left side with a marker. So they do the procedure on the correct side. Great news, crayola markers are the final check mark off of the pre surgery checklists. So I have my crayola X and I am being placed under anesthesia. All I remember is feeling like a drunk monkey talking stupid to the people in the surgery room. I couldn't tell you how I got in the surgery room, except I remember people all around me. I think I heard someone say "He has a big one, and a hairy one at that! We need more razors!" It might of been the drugs, I don't know.Nevertheless, the surgery was complete before I knew I was awake. I was in recovery feeling the worse hang over I have EVER felt! I couldn't focus my vision on anything. I kept asking the nurses for water, but all I got was ice chips. My head was mush and my throat was raw. The nurse in the recovery asked me how I was doing, and all I remember telling her was "I want to go home" Fast forward through all the grogginess and leaving the hospital, I was home at last.The recovery wasn't bad at all. I spent the day after the surgery in bed watching TV. That sucky part was there wasn't anything good on TV, and when I had to go to the bathroom. You would be surprised how important your stomach is for almost EVERYTHING you do to move around. Getting out of bed was hard. But healing is a process and it has gotten easier these last 4 days. I wont go over what I had to do the day after surgery to get convalescence leave. SOB's made me travel 45 mins to get paper work filled out, that I could have gotten filled out a week before the surgery. But that is what they call health care.So now I have a little over two weeks off from work to heal. The healing is doing OK and I feel pretty good. The only thing is my left nut, or the stuff in the left sack, is swelling up. I will need to let the surgeon know about that this week when I get my stitches out.So all in all, not a bad experience. I haven't taken any pain pills for the pain. Except for the vicadon I got at the hospital after the surgery. It has been uncomfortable, but I am not a big fan of pain pills. The worst part of the recovery has been the pain from the gas that they put in my stomach to inflate and separate to do the surgery. It has felt like the worst case of gas and having to take a shit pains I have felt in a long time. I am a fighter and a lover of time off from work!!!Peace and all that other shit!IamTheDumbOne

Are people just stupid or just ignorant?

OK, you all have heard about talk show host Michael Savage being black listed by the UK government for being a not welcome person in the great nation of the United Kingdom. Not so great if you know how they are being taken over by radical, no sorry, by Islam. I listen to Michael Savage all the time. Most of the time I am sitting in my car, my office, and cheering "Get'em Savage!" And sometimes I am cheering "Get them SOB's Dr Savage!!"
I have been listening to Michael Savage for about 2 1/2 years now. I disagree with him on a few small points, but I rally behind him on the big issues that define this country. When Michael Savage was being attacked by CAIR I was behind him, and getting a little, I mean a shit lot pissed by the ACLU. Freedom of speech is a precious thing. Liberals have thrived on the idea of freedom of speech for the last 8 years. No matter what hateful thing they said about America or about President Bush. Not to mention, the nasty things said about American Armed Service Men and Women. So this is the point I am getting at, we as Americans love our freedom of speech, right! We love that we can say that the President is a war criminal, an idiot, a socialist, and unpatriotic. The scary thing that comes into play is that another country, England, can ban a person who tells it like it is. The scary thing is that the UK places a guy who tells it like it is with murderers. And not just normal murder's, but murder's that are the scum of the world and everyone can hate. Was Michael Savage placed with them for a reason?
If you are placed in a category that is full of the most despised people, no matter the ignorance of the classification, think of the tarnish on your character that has been done. With no justification. The next step is for people of opinions, other than that of the State, to be "deemed" banned or absolute. What I am getting at is, the government of the UK has placed Michael Savage on the same list as known terorists and murder's. Michael Savage is a man who just calls a spade a spade. A man who has not committed any crimes. A man that has no ties to terrorist's. A man that just sheds light on the hipocracy of the liberal mind set. He is a criminal equal to a murderer? Is the UK government justifing HR 1913? Who is next?
Peace and all that other shit!
IamTheDumOne

Change for change becase change is good, you got change?

I love Obama!! He is my hero, and I know that he can do no wrong, because he is change! And change is good, change is like a good rerun that is different, but changed by some thing that was changed. The force of change made it change, and change is always good! No matter what the actual change is. Change is like a cool breeze running through Chavez's hair, and like an Iranian leaders love to hate a country and people!
Alright, that was to grab your attention, or was it. Obama is the President of change. He is a president that built his Presidency on change. But what is he changing?
I don't claim to be an expert on anything, and I don't claim to know it all. But I will say that Obama is a joke of an American President! He has been in the White House for some 100 days and has been reported to have done a lot. He has done a lot, but not a lot of good. It is just like his campaign, he was for change, but he didn't say what change he was for.
One hundred days in and he is about 64% approval rating, according to the Gallup poll.. That is a good approval rating, don't get me wrong. People love Obama, and listening to the media, who report on him like he can do know wrong, I am actually surprised he doesn't have a higher approval rating. The number I was surprised from was the blacks approval ratings! With 96% approval rating and 1% disapproval rating!!
1% of blacks(Gallup Polls term) disapprove of Obama!! Are you kidding me! Who are they polling? The idea that any segment of a population would support a leader in that great of numbers is scary!! I myself hope these numbers are not true! Because if they are true and accurate, that means that a major group of Americans are being lead blindly, and not from color blindness, but from ignorance, down the stupid trail led by politicians who use them every chance they get. By every chance they get ,I mean when ever they need to get elected.
The point I am getting at is, the post racial world is over! There will be no more racism! I am so full of shit! Who are we kidding?? This is the world of racism, the WHITE people elected a BLACK President, but all whites are still racists!!
Who, indeed, is the racist? When the Gallup Poll says there is a 96% approval of Obama from blacks? All I am saying is look what Obama is doing to this country. If you like your President to go to the countries of the world and apologize for all the great things we have done for humanity, bash the past President, and proclaim he is a member of the world community rather than say he is an American above that, you should love Obama. All I have to say is that Obama is walking down a tight wire that might destroy this country. His foreign policy is a lot more scarier than Bush's, because he is a totally bitch boy to the world!! I didn't vote for a guy to become President of the world. I demand a President that has the best interest of the United States of America in mind!

Hello and I am happy to smell you!!

Hello party people! I am doing my first blog! Tell me that ain't cool. I do have some problems with doing this though. First off, I am a firm believer in having the right to misspell words, but with the spell check thing, I feel like I must make sure I spell words correctly! Because I have no excuse now, except laziness! See I just spelled laziness, lazyness, well you didn't just see that, but you know what I mean. Secondly, I think that some people will have issues with what I say. You all seen what happened to the Miss America woman for saying what she thought, but I really don't have a problem with people hating me for what I believe. More to come on that.
A little bit about me. I am a married man to a wonderfull woman. We have two dogs, Dane a Chihuahua, and Luna a cute mutt. I live in Albany NY. I am a conservitive. I am not a Republican and I sure as hell am not a Democrate, yet I am not a third party person. I am in the bussiness of "sales". As far as Obama, I think I will have some things to say in the future about him.
There are things I like about doing this. First, I get to speak my mind. Second, I like the idea of bucking the system and look foward to them trying to stop my freedom of speech, trust me it is coming. I know I will have alot of problems with what I say on here. Not because I am a hatefull person, but because I believe what I believe and there are people who are not "tolorant" to different points of views. I did say I am a conservitive, right? Look foward to hitting some hard hitting topics and putting my perspective on them in the near future. One of the next blogs in the future will be on Ingrioul Hernia Surgery, I get cut next week. So I will let folks who are going to go through it know everything I went through, good or bad.
Peace and all that other bullshit!!
IamTheDumbOne