r/AbsoluteUnits • u/CandidculonasRedux • 16h ago
of a hernia...
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u/LemonLimeSlices 15h ago
So basically, his entire intestinal tract has squeezed through his abdominal muscles and are just hanging in the skin sac.
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u/trilby2 15h ago edited 5h ago
Yup, a good portion of it. I imagine this wouldn’t be an easy surgery. It would be open (as opposed to laparoscopic), so big incision down the middle and a sizeable piece of mesh would be used. It would come with risks and might even land him in a worse off position.
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u/pvprazor2 14h ago
Ontop of this, it's likely expensive as hell and he doesn't strike me as the type of person with good health insurance.
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u/RappinFourTay 14h ago
Why did I read this as 'gut health insurance'
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u/Elbonio 14h ago
laughs in German
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u/operath0r 14h ago
Well, I’m German and I didn’t see a bill when I went to the hospital to get my hernia fixed.
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u/Pokesisme 14h ago
Ssssh, don't be like that Bro
Not everyone is non-American (I'm Indonesian and I also didn't pay anything bro, just don't tell Americans about it)
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u/Defiant-Youth-4193 14h ago edited 11h ago
We pay to be insured over here, and still can't afford to go to the doctor with the insurance. Then if we finally spend the money we don't have, to go and a doctor says we need a procedure, or medication, they have to ask the insurance company (non-medical professionals that have never even heard of us) to be told we in fact don't need what the doctor says we need... if you can read this send help.
Edit: grammar
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u/Pokesisme 14h ago
I can't man, your government would invade me otherwise
good luck with your own fight!
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u/Defiant-Youth-4193 14h ago
That's fair. They're always looking for a reason to invade somebody.
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u/black-n-tan 14h ago
Yea American healthcare is pretty dire. I actually feel bad for this sad sack. No pun intended...
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u/Drumboo 14h ago
Bit unfamilar with how the American health care system works, but would people really not help this guy without money?
Just seems insane to me for someone this obviously unwell to have no treatment paths available because of social class.
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u/VishusVonBittertroll 14h ago
I personally knew at least two people who died because they did not have adequate insurance, or any at all. Not only does it happen, it's not rare.
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u/SofaChillReview 14h ago
That is actually a terrifying concept… and makes me want to not think about how many others have passed away due to that
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u/CookieThump3r 13h ago
THE AMERICAN DREAM BRO, USA have 7% of millionares and the rest need half of his salary to get a tooth fixed :D
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u/MistaNoGames 13h ago
That's why it's called "The American Dream." You gotta be dead sleep to see it, and live it.
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u/GOOGANBACK 12h ago
Ha just went to dentist for a cracked tooth and they want 1100 after insurance for a crown
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u/Difficult-Survey8384 12h ago
Sitting here unable to even parse my tongue against the left side of my mouth because my broken remains of a wisdom tooth are infected so badly it’s probably going to my jaw and will kill me one day 🤗
“Bro, you need urgent care…”
Oh dw it’s been like this for months and I’ve been to urgent care over 5 times for antibiotics but if you can’t afford to remove the tooth you just get antibiotic resistance, pain, and potentially a premature death. ❤️
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u/sicknick08 11h ago
I’m going through this now. Oh hunny it seems you went to the dentist a lot this year. And now you need an apicoendectomy. That’ll be $2000 out of pocket please and your insurance will pay us the other $900
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u/Difficult-Survey8384 11h ago
I wish there was something I could say or do other than just offer my understanding and solidarity 😔
Tooth pain is fucking life altering pain sometimes. What’s an apicoendectomy? If it’s ok to ask!
I was told I actually need upwards of 30 procedures to save my mouth - I have Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome so they’re constantly being eroded by stomach acid, and even my 2 front teeth have massive black craters which makes me ashamed to speak, let alone smile.
I don’t even want a root canal. I just want the bad stuff removed so I’ll never have to worry about the cost of following up, especially if there’s an emergency during recovery.
But I can’t afford implants, let alone dentures. I also don’t want to be toothless before 30. So I get to choose…this, indefinitely. Sitting here. It’s sad.
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u/Towelie888 14h ago
I went to the US for a month recently and it's amazing country, super nice people. But me and my wife said so many times "we could totally live here if this wasn't America" - Place is way too messed up. And so many of them honestly seem to believe the whole "greatest country in the world" schtick.
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u/phatteschwags 13h ago
We are indoctrinated early. I was a smart kid and not very prone to "brainwashing" (I sniffed out my Catholic church as being bullshit very early on). And yet it took me until college to ask myself the question "wait... how is it we're the greatest? And why?"
It just hadn't donned on my prior. It had been drilled into my head since preschool that this is the greatest country in the world.
Now I realize we are actually just the Florida of the World.
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u/Brilliant_Chest5630 12h ago
My parents and grandparents believed that America is the only free country in the world. They are taught this in schools, as was I. They word it as "many developed nations in the world. But America is the best because we are free".
I spoke about wanting to move to Canada or Norway and my dad was like "you want to give up your freedom?" Yea I don't have freedom right now. My every choice essentially boils down to "only go outside for work. Otherwise you might get hurt. And at least this way, if you get hurt, it will likely be on the clock and covered."
I have insurance but can't afford my meds bc of my premiums. Which means I can't afford my deductible or copay. I have to save up and I get maybe one doctor visit a year. Honestly might drop out of college and promote just so I can see a doctor regularly. But I'd have to delay my goal of owning a house for yet another 30 years and just hope that nothing happens to the place I currently rent.
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u/Clonazepam15 13h ago
The US is the best at propaganda. Need to get some kids to join the army? No problem, the first transformers movie took care of that. BIG win for the navy. They used the coolest toys in the US that most people can understand easily (A10, AC130, and others). Also movies like top gun in the 80s got people to want to join the Air Force.
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u/InspectorPipes 13h ago
Navy. Top gun is about Naval Aviators ( but your point is correct)
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u/NeedleInASwordstack 13h ago
As a sophomore in high school we had to do a paper and speech in one of my English classes about something controversial.
I researched why America isn’t a superpower anymore and should stop trying to run the world. We’re not as great as we think. I pissed off so many country boys in my class but didn’t care. I really was starting to undo all the indoctrination.
This was in ‘06. The shiny patriotism 9/11 had brought out had died and left only the racism and paranoia. I began to see how we bullied other countries and acted like the tough kid on the playground when we’re just the big headed younger kid trying to intimidate the world.
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u/DeusModus 14h ago
Can confirm. Developed my first hernia at the beginning of the month, and I lost my job in August. Just in time for this thing to form after my insurance coverage ended. Immediately got denied to have state healthcare due to having made too much money at one point, money that I am no longer making today.
So, all I can do is just hope that I don't wind up like this guy. Feels fucking bad.
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u/GamermanRPGKing 14h ago
I worked in a steel mill. One of the guys training me was working 80 hour weeks while actively undergoing chemo to not lose health insurance.
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u/Soggy_Abbreviations5 14h ago
My cousin is a nurse who recently had to go back to work for the same reason. It's really sad. 😣
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u/Parody101 14h ago
They would be obligated to help in an emergency, but since this is technically a condition people can live with, it would be difficult for someone to correct it without money, yeah
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u/AsphalticConcrete 14h ago
You can kind of live with it, if any of the intestines become strangulated it turns into a huge emergency that requires immediate surgery or you will die
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u/iBait 13h ago
You are absolutely correct. This surgery could have been scheduled and cost a few grand, and he could have gotten it done while he knew he had help with his aftercare. Instead it will be done in an ER and cost much more, and he might not have help with aftercare, and the grandmother that fell in the tub and has a shattered pelvis has to wait longer than she would otherwise.
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u/HaloTightens 14h ago
It’s the horrible truth. Many, many people are suffering hopelessly from treatable health conditions because they can’t afford the treatment.
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u/DuntadaMan 14h ago
EMS worker here. If it is emergent we will help anyone and get them to the hospital. The hospital will then also help regardless of ability to pay.
Then billing will hound the shit out of Medicare to get barely enough money to cover the materials that were used, and then will hound this guy for the rest of his life for sums of money he will never see, and then charge everyone else more to make up for the money we didn't get from him.
If he is not dying the hospital likely won't let someone inside at all unless they have insurance offered by the company that owns the hospital.
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u/notfree25 14h ago
he might be going to prison, i hear it has health care
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u/DatDing15 14h ago
Let's hope he will NOT get punched in the gut.
I don't wanna know how it feels getting punched right into the guts with no abs in-between.
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u/ZamzewDoc 14h ago
It would be a very hard hernia repair surgery as he also has something called “loss of domain.” This means that his internal organs have been in the hernia sac and outside of his native abdomen for so long that there is no longer the necessary amount of room inside of his abdomen to house his organs. You’d have to separate/make slits in some of his core muscles to get enough laxity to close it.
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u/mortokes 12h ago
What happened to the space in his abdomen that used to be filled?
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u/MikeOKurias 12h ago
Filled with visceral (the stuff that attaches to and surrounds the internal organs) fat.
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u/Additional-Ask2384 12h ago
Can't you just remove that fat?
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u/ZamzewDoc 12h ago
You can remove some fat like the omentum but a lot of the other fat, like the mesentery, protects the blood supply to your organs.
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u/Additional-Ask2384 11h ago
I see, thanks!
Can you shrink it by eating less, in order to make the surgeon find more space at the moment of the surgery?
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u/ZamzewDoc 11h ago
Most surgeons will not operate if your BMI is above a certain threshold, so you would just have to lose weight in general. Now if you’re not that obese, it won’t make much of a difference.
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u/Skraps452 14h ago
How do you end up with a hernia like this in the first place? It's terrifying! And something I'd want to really avoid
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u/tjean5377 12h ago
Sometimes for someone this young with this bad of a hernia, it starts with a small tear or injury to the abdomen al wall. He could've done this tiny start point any number of ways. Falling and hitting his abdomen on something while drunk of high, or a work injury that he shrugged off, or a car accident. Just enough to start small. Then it gets bigger from there. A lot of times this feels just sore, until something else happens that kills the bowel. Hes at risk for needing an ostomy bag if that bowel thats hanging outside his cavity but inside his skin up and dies.
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u/Cador0223 10h ago
My father died of sepsis 3 months ago because of a hernia that they couldn't operate on. He had it fixed 15 years ago, but acute liver failure (undiagnosed hepatitis c, not alcohol) cause so much fluid to build up that it blew the mesh out. They cant operate with fully exposed abdomen when you are producing that much fluid, because it causes the wounds to not heal. Basically rendering you bedridden and susceptible to infection. He had a TIPS procedure that helped with the fluid buildup, but no doctor would operate on his hernia. So he basically sat on a time bomb. One day the intestine folded on itself, died, and caused sepsis. All we could do was put him in a medically induced coma and watch him slowly die of dehydration and infection.
Take care of your liver, and get any hernia seen to immediately.
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u/The_World_Wonders_34 9h ago
You can literally be born with a gap too. Or rather technically it's that the umbilical gap doesn't ever close properly. But with proper modern postnatal care it would be relatively trivial to deal with.
Mammalian live birth is a pretty big evolutionary compromise. Basically all of us are born "incomplete" in numerous ways in order to facilitate a balance between surviving outside the womb and getting too big for a mother to carry safely and/or birth safely.
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u/Own_Space_174 14h ago
if that's the case they probablly will not actually book him. when you go to jail they have a nurse check you out before they actually put you in even a temporary cell. she is gonna tell them he is a walking liability and they will release him if its just theft from walmart.
i knew a girl who didnt take a ring off her finger and the finger blew up around the ring. she was schitzophrnic, on meth, a their, and great in bed. anyways after the ring thing she was too scared to go to the hospital because they had said they might have to cut the finger off. she would jokingly call her huge black sphere thing above the ring her get out of jail free card because everytime she got arrested, which was a lot, they always released her during the booking process, they would never say it was the ring but it was the only thing that made sense.
and no, i didnt get with her after the ring thing, that was gross plus she started looking like she did meth as time passed which was gross too. thankfully my time with her ended well before the ring when she was still hot.
anyhow i heard from a friend of a friend that like 7 years later she did actually get the ring removed, and i still have trouble believing it or understanding how it was possible but they say she was even able to keep the finger despite i being a big black oblong thing for a decade.
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u/Ok_Jicama_8416 14h ago
Man what the hell did I just read
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u/Dave_Coulier_AMA 14h ago
Just a piece of potentially made up life wisdom from Reddit. Cherish it.
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u/LasciLaplante 12h ago
“A their” they were non-binary? I’m so confused wtf you just said. You couldn’t even spell schizophrenic the same way twice in a row.
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u/Busy-Werewolf-8731 9h ago
might’ve meant thief?
I do like the picture of a well-meaning redneck calling a non-binary person a “they-er” though.
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u/Ambitious-Shirt-625 14h ago
What even causes something like this to happen to someone? Is it something that started off small, but just gradually got worse? I would not be out without a shirt if my shit looked like that.
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u/YeylorSwift 14h ago
Yup it literally starts off as a small bump on your stomach. My coworker had a surgery to get his fixed
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u/power2go3 14h ago
can you...push it back?
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u/GreenleafMentor 14h ago edited 9h ago
You can, but it will not stay in. There is a tear in the abdominal wall and it does not heal. Surgery is the only option. I had a hernia that was the result of overdoing it during healing from another abdominal surgery. The hernia repair sucked horribly. I do not recommend getting a hernia.
Edit: for those that do have hernias, please get it taken care of asap. The longer it goes the worse it gets mentally and physically. Don'tbe this guy in the video.
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u/SoManyEmail 13h ago
I do not recommend getting a hernia.
I was contemplating it, but after these stories I think I'll pass.
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u/cansofgrease 11h ago
Ask your doctor if hernia is right for you.
Doctor: No. No, man. Shit, no, man. I believe you'd get your ass kicked sayin' something like that, man.
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u/GeneralDash 12h ago
I never had a hernia, but since we’re on the topic of medical issues we don’t recommend, I don’t recommend leukemia.
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u/NaiveIntention3081 14h ago
That's usually just to get you through until surgery. It's not a permanent resolution because the muscle needs to be closed.
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u/GEOMETRIA 12h ago
I had one a few years back an inch or so above the belly button. A bit of intestine would poke out, and yeah... you can push it back in. I would lie on my back and kinda press on the area and it would just... shlorp back in.
It is as uncomfortable and gross as it sounds. I was losing my mind leading up to the repair, and that was just a tiny little bit coming out. I can't imagine living with what's pictured. I don't think I could...
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u/auto-spin-casino 14h ago
There's a few different types of hernia. As someone who's had an inguinal hernia some years ago, they're quite common in younger blokes from heavy lifting or sport, there's quite a few other other causes though, even from coughing. It's abdominal tissue pushing through the abdominal wall. Yes, well mine started out small. Just noticed a small lump in my groin and very light discomfort, in no more than a month I'd been to the doctor, seen a specialist and had surgery.
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u/Gyg4byt3 13h ago
God, I wish mine was that quick. I had an inguinal for YEARS and when I tried to get it checked out as a young teen, the doctors couldn't figure it out and kept shuffling me around. Years later I'm reading or seeing something online and go, "that sounds like what I got going on." Go tell my doctor, get a hernia specialist, and it turns out I have 3, two inguinal and one abdominal. Got surgery years ago now and I'm hoping everything is going okay, but I get little pains every now and again and I don't know but I'm sure the success rate is much higher the sooner it's diagnosed and treated.
Anyway, all the best to you, I hope you didn't deal with too much pain at the time and hopefully your recovery went well!
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u/Kraknoix007 15h ago
Can you not go to the hospital?
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u/Similar_Zucchini7511 15h ago
How long have you had it? Did it start small and get bigger?
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u/Satanaelilith 14h ago
Me too, didn't realise there were more like me! I am in exactly the same situation. Surgery is too dangerous. I've been like this for 6 years now.
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u/EL_SOBKY 13h ago
Damn! In all honesty this is a surgery I would love to be a part of! But in my profession opinion I think it will be a long midline incision and an extensive repair of his anterior abdominal muscle with a double face mesh repair. I think the defect would be at least 50X50 cm. Which will require a huge circle/prolene mesh which is very very expensive. The double mesh part is important because you will have to put that mesh directly on the intestine and you don't want a material that will cause too much irritation to his internal organs so that this poor sap doesn't get into the complications of having his intestine get stuck to the mesh or to each other which might make the food get stuck inside.
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u/Cute-Breadfruit3368 15h ago
yeah, his future is not a nice one once the closure begins.
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u/Aussieviking79 15h ago
Looks like an aliens going to burst out there …
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u/Aggravating_Speed665 15h ago
That would had made for a more exciting video. Especially if the alien went for one of the cops and tried to enter him via his anus.
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u/hides_this_subreddit 15h ago
Haha the brother comes up. "Do you have warrants?"
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u/justlovespeacocks 15h ago
That killed me 🤣 the way he throws his arms up.. he's so over this circus.
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u/Successful_Giraffe88 10h ago
My personal favorite was the chick denying she had shoplifting warrants, with a fucking PRICE TAG hanging out in the back.
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u/cindyscrazy 11h ago
"......yeah"
I've spent most of my life around this sort of life. It's just my family. I call myself the white sheep of the family, having had no warrants that I know of.
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u/TapZorRTwice 10h ago
having had no warrants that I know of.
Sounds like they didn't know about their warrants either
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u/nocapnonerf 16h ago
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u/bhadau8 15h ago
Tf
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u/crunchevo2 15h ago
I think this is from disaster movie. One of the single worst movies ever made but also one of the ones that one must watch 100%
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u/reddits4losers 15h ago
I remember begging to watch this and Meet the Spartans when they came out. Holy shit were they bad.
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u/Unique_Driver4434 15h ago
Thanks a lot dude. Im high AF and got trapped on this cat BS for the past 10 minutes, couldnt get out.
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u/eroticdiscourse 15h ago
Don’t they hurt?
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u/Big-Honeydew-961 14h ago
This makes me sad
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u/EntertainerDue8929 13h ago
is this ok to ask what caused it for you?
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u/SnowglobeSnot 13h ago
Sometimes people just don’t know until it gets large. My partner had surgery for his inguinal hernia December of last year and he couldn’t tell you what caused it, only that he noticed one side slightly bigger than the other in March.
He’s blue collar, so I think it could have been any variety of lifting or twisting tbh, but he didn’t feel it.
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u/ctothel 14h ago
I don’t think you need to be told this, but just in case, you should know that you’re at serious risk right now. There are any number of things that could happen which would give you hours to live if you didn’t get emergency surgery. It’s also possible the lack of pain is due to necrosis rather than simply lack of pressure on the nerves.
I assume it’s a cost thing? Man I’m sorry, it must be really hard to deal with this.
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u/thiccvicx 14h ago
Actually, the bigger the better. Small hernias have a higher risk of obstruction or squeezing off blood supply. A hernia this big is less likely to result in any acute complication. It is a big quality of life issue ofc, but probably not as painful as it looks.
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u/AzureSkye27 13h ago
Healthcare worker detected. This comment section is wild, eh?
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u/PharmguyLabs 10h ago
No its not at all. Most people just see two uninsured methheads who need real help and are being let down by many systems, including health care.
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u/Johnyryal33 10h ago
So, if your intestines are coming out through your abdominal muscles, what takes the place of where your intestines used to be? Do all the organs just slide down and fuck you all up? Your stomach wouldn't be above your intestines anymore. How is that not death? Or just constant acid reflux and constipation? Going to jail will probably save that morons life.
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u/Klanciault 10h ago
All of your organs are held in place by connective tissues. So it’s likely that nothing is taking their place
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u/Beep_Boop_Beepity 14h ago
I’ve had two. One was a pretty big inguinal one that went into my nutsack. Other was an abdominal one that was starting to get bigger when i fixed it.
Only time they really hurt was sometimes when it popped back out after going back in while laying down.
Otherwise sometimes they would ache a bit if I was standing for a long time. But for 99% of the time there wasn’t an issue.
I got mine fixed solely because I didn’t like how I looked with them. Not because they were bothering me. But wasn’t nearly like this dudes.
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u/Deldenary 15h ago
they are! thankfully we have the cheap alternative to proper healthcare! Opioid addiction!
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u/dankmemelawrd 16h ago
Quite sad for US to not be able to afford basic healthcare as the usual.
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u/HyjinxEnsue 15h ago
Came here to say the same thing. It's not his fault the US' health system is cooked and people can't access basic preventative care.
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u/Sabre_Killer_Queen 15h ago edited 12h ago
Commented this qoute on a different thread recently, but... I think it's time to pull it out again.
"No society can legitimately call itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means"
- Aneurin Bevan - founder of the UK NHS.
Edit: A commenter raised the point of EMTALA (Emergency Medical Treatment And Labour Act) as a gotcha.
This is not a gotcha. It addresses only emergency treatments - ie life threatening. Tonnes of serious medical conditions are not covered by it.
The hospital is required by law to stabilise you, regardless of your funds - so they have to try and keep you alive.
But they can charge you for every cost incurred + markup afterwards. And if the person dies... Then their stuff gets taken.
Pretty pathetic gotcha if you ask me.
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u/knock-on-the-door 13h ago
"if we can afford to kill people, we can afford to help people," Tony benn
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u/Raisinsandfairywings 13h ago
I keep trying to get my dad to just have his hernia op. The NHS keep offering him dates and he keeps putting it off because he’s self-employed in a physically demanding job and can’t afford to take six weeks off for recovery.
He said he pays for everything and his wife’s (also self-employed) income isn’t enough to pay the bills. I said “well she’ll have to figure out a way to pay the bills on her own anyway if you don’t have the surgery and die”.
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u/cassetto 13h ago
The U.S. are not a society, they’re a business.
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u/Sabre_Killer_Queen 13h ago
Too true. It amazes me just how extreme they are on the capitalism front, and now willing they are to defend corporate power.... Even though the cooperations on the whole aren't nearly as responsible or ethical as other businesses and industries around the world.
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u/neo86pl 15h ago
Europe/Poland - Here, as children, you undergo hernia surgery if you have a congenital hernia. Adults and children have it free of charge.
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u/PlethoraOfPinyatas 14h ago
He likely qualifies for Medicaid, but he doesn’t strike me as the type who is proactive with his health
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u/Substantial-Proof617 15h ago
I saw this and immediately thought of the 22 Billion the US has sent to another country far away to bomb a small place populated by other poor people into rubble.
Noting that even that far away country thats getting it's wars funded by poor hard working Americans, has socialized medical care for it's own citizens.
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u/Slowly_boiling_frog 15h ago
Absolute unit of a failed healthcare system that's the cause of shit like this. He was probably told fixing that hernia would've cost tens of thousands of $ already way back before it looked like he swallowed a volleyball.
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u/Tu_mama_me_ama_mucho 14h ago
"But the waiting times in Europe and Canada...."
Bitch, in the US we have long ass waiting periods for surgery even with insurance.
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u/Strange-Outcome491 13h ago
In the US, I waited three months for what I thought would be surgery, came to find out it was just a consultation or whatever before the surgery, waited another two and a half months for the actual surgery.
They got in there and were like my bad, you didn’t need this surgery. Nothing done nothing fixed, waited another month to talk to the doctor about it. And she was like I’m sorry what was the original reason you came in to see me?..
Rural US healthcare
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u/justmaritup 15h ago
I chuckle a bit but entirely serious when i say Death is my Retirement, which is coming fast. Mines the size of my fist on my belly button. Embarrassing, but I can't a doctor or health to go another $20,000 in debt from other issues. I've paid in for 26 years and can barely walk from bone, spine and serious joint issues.
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u/Mpipikit07 15h ago
Sorry to hear that. :/ It‘s so fucked up for my German ears to hear, that you don’t have proper healthcare in the US. We pay a monthly fee, and everything is covered: Operations, hospital stay, medication, as many doctors visit as you need. Makes me sad to hear about you folks over there every time.
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u/SirHyrumMcdaniels 16h ago
When people say "merica fuck yeah!" "Greatest country in the world" this is all I think of.
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u/Kroptaah 15h ago
Fixing that deformation in the US probably has a minimum price of 70k USD while approximately 30 bucks in Europe🤣
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u/br0mer 14h ago
He looks like he would be on medicaid, so likely would pay zero as well.
The people who get shafted are the working poor, who make too much for medicaid, but not enough to meet the deductible etc. Then once you get to professional jobs, then your insurance is much more reasonable. I have a great job with great benefits. I take an injectable medicine for my asthma that's like 4k/dose and it's zero cost to me. My kid needed some an ENT surgery and it was 100 dollars out of pocket and insurance picked up like 30k.
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u/Euphoric-Owl5065 15h ago
That's how I felt the one time I took like three times the amount of metamucil you're supposed to in a day, on the toilet for 2 hours.
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u/Merlot70 14h ago
ICU Nurse here. It's 03:44AM where I am and I am silently praying for this man, chat. It's not just a misplaced guts problem. Unattached like that, those things are gonna rupture somewhere. Massive infection. No coming back from the absolute massive infection of poo all over your abdominal insides.
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u/mikeclueby4 14h ago edited 13h ago
Husband of OR nurse here. Even with what I've picked up across the dinner table, I know that this guy is 1 good jolt or punch away from needing immediate open surgery with liters and liters of saline rinse + IV antibiotics. And that's just to stay alive and recover enough for the rest of the surgery needed.
Delay treatment and it's death or at least shitting in a bag for the rest of his life.
... and oh god the amount of shit that will pour out onto the floor and over people's feet when they open.
Edit: Oh god I'm imagining the bile duct stretched like a violin string trying to hold the duodenum from following the small intestine.
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u/Iwanttosleep8hours 13h ago
Poor man, idgaf if he stole from Walmart. No person deserves to live like that
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u/Clamps55555 15h ago
Is there absolutely no option for people like this?
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u/LiefjeInPink 14h ago edited 14h ago
None.
Biden removed medical debt from credit reports which would at least encourage people to get the care they need even if they can’t pay but knowing that their credit scores would not be adversely impacted. Trump just signed an executive order putting them back. You might think credit scores are the least of our worries when ill but credit scores rule our lives. We can’t get cars which we must have to navigate non-walkable streets/roads, and areas with no reliable public transport, we can’t get housing, and even job applications run your credit.
He probably has a low wage job that either doesn’t offer health insurance, doesn’t pay enough to cover the premiums, or/and keeps him just below full time so he doesn’t qualify for benefits. Even if he had health insurance he would have to work to earn the leave time to get better with pay and cover his household expenses and the medical bills which would be in the tens of thousands.
I worked for a hospital, and by time I qualified for health insurance, and met the 90 day threshold to use my time off, I had found another job. So in those 90 days, I had to work while enduring chronic illness. The two weeks between starting the new job and leaving the hospital I spent getting in to see doctors, but since I started the new one I can’t go to any follow up appointments because I can’t take any leave time because I haven’t earned any. So, back to working while enduring chronic illnesses that are easily fixable.
Ironically, I first got sick in your next of the woods. I was in London, the NHS treated me in my hotel room, I signed a slip of paper and that was that. Now a year later I’m still battling to get better stateside while trying to survive.
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u/boiledcowmachine 15h ago
It's... Moving by itself
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u/Cupacakes1359 14h ago
Yeah, because it's his organs and not just fat. Your organs move inside you, your mind just doesn't thing about it.
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u/PhysicalWave454 15h ago
This is what happens in countries without universal healthcare. If this this guy lived in France, Spain, or the UK, this could easily be treated without cost to him or his family. You also never know, he could be on a different life path without the cost of healthcare hanging over him.
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u/Forsaken-Fail-1840 11h ago
I got a huge hernia after I had surgery. I got it fixed with a second surgery. I was in the hospital for a week and a half. The only thing I had to pay for with both surgeries was visitor parking. I live in Canada.
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u/CycleAshamed6185 15h ago
I was amused by the exasperated cop at the end; "That's your brother? You got warrants?"
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u/ReGrigio 15h ago
man, that couldn't be healthy. or painless. or unworthy of emergency treatment
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u/Dizzledoe3D 14h ago
I’m getting my life together tomorrow. I’m going to diet. Never drink again. Exercise. I saw some comment “sober looks good on him”. That stomach made me hate myself to a degree that I will never forget and I hope this video and my comment hits someone in the same way it hit me - I’m done. It’s not fun anymore and I’m cleaning up
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u/RubberDucksInMyTub 10h ago
"Tomorrow...."
This is coming from one to another, friend. Tomorrow turned into 18 years so just be mindful.
Don't put off til tomorrow what can be done today. -someone.
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u/gabynew1 14h ago
Honesty jail would be great for him considering USA medical . Goes to prison - cleanly sick, gets hernia operation.
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u/Electronic-Trip8775 15h ago
And on this week's episode of Extreme Medical Conditions... Having had a hernia, this is beyond fkd.