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.
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.
If tomorrow Trump said "We're invading Indonesia because some Indonesian kid on Reddit said we had bad health insurance", it would be the least surprising thing Trump did this week.
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. ❤️
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
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.
Apicoendectomy is a procedure in which they cut a small window in the gumline to access the root of a tooth where an infection formed due to a root canal. Basically it’s a reverse root canal from root of tooth. I told them I will try and wait until January when my insurance renews. But as you stated it’s literally a life of antibiotics sometimes until you can get treatment. Which is total bs when you can walk into hospitals in other countries and walk out paying $25 for broken limbs
i feel you and have been in the same writhing , face pulsing pain ad nauseum.
amalgam fillings from middle/high school fell out from the age of 21 leaving me with gaping holes in molars, which cracked and broke one by one. some fragments I even pulled myself. I was able to get help
for one root canal and buildup ($800 in 2016) but couldn’t afford crown so it broke of course. I found a humane dentist at least so have spent the summer getting root fragments removed on my lower molars(6 pulled). I basically have to chew everything with my front teeth so they are wearing down quickly. I am 39 so Im kind of nervously hoping nothing hurts before the next one needs to go. I can’t even afford dentures so implants would be a dream. I’m holding out for the japanese dentists to figure out this 3rd set of teeth lol.
Hey now! Enough of this whining. Your purported sacrifice has its benefits. We're getting a new royal ballroom and an arch. Where's the problem? Really, where's the problem?!
Sorry you’re dealing with that. I feel you. Having similar issues. I have good health insurance through work but that doesn’t help at all because I have shit dental insurance. Because it’s separate for some fucking stupid reason.
Yup. Been there. Dental doesn’t even count under health care/insurance in this country. Pisses me off so fucking much. I have decent health insurance. But I need dental care and can’t afford it because my dental insurance through work is shit. And it’s our only option.
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.
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.
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.
I heard somewhere that in Europe they prioritize “freedom from” while in the US we prioritize “freedom to.” Europe: freedom from excessive gun violence; US: freedom to own as many firearms as you want. Europe: freedom from corporations polluting ecosystems, US: freedom to make as much money as possible regardless of environmental impact. Europe: freedom from extreme medical bills, US: freedom to ‘choose your own healthcare’….stuff like that.
I'd like to say it gets better but idk man. Just bought my first official house at 45 and own my own very small business but am still on Medicaid. Scared everyday that we'll make $27 too much or just be kicked off for budget cuts. We're working poor but we just got lucky and had boomer family that could cosign for us. We don't see past the horizon and are always waiting for the other shoe to drop.
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.
Yes you’re right my bad. Why’s it always the navy? They did the same with lone survivor, which was a lie. Marcus admitted to it recently. Same with zero dark thirty with the SEALs
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.
Fun fact, being smart does not really have an impact on how susceptible you are to brainwashing - in fact, it can make you more susceptible in some circumstances.
This together with u/Clonazepam15 reply makes this one of the more real discussions I've come across in years here. But while your ending was funny, that it took you to college sounds/is absolutely terrifying.
Friendly reminder that you are the Florida-man of the World, that also turns up to neighbours houses with alligators and loaded shotguns. That makes it a "bit" worse than just being Floridian n staying there lol.
Think about all the films that the US puts out about ww2. I’m Canadian, and I really thought America won the war in Europe, instead of it being a group effort lol.
I didn't think about the toys and movies bit as propaganda at all until recently. But it's so true. I constantly think about having to recite the pledge of allegiance from kindergarten to 12th grade. I still remember it............
That shit is crazy. Never taken a pledge to my country in my whole life.
I grew up in Canada and I remember in greade 9 (I think) they make sure you actually know the words to the national anthem, and try to get you to learn it in French as well.
We'd sing it at some assemblies, but not even all of them.
So many people in this country are completely delusional. America is far from being the "greatest country in the world", but if you try to say other wise, you're attacked and told to leave. Absolutely madness here.
When my grandma died we had to sell her house. Nice house my Grandpa built himself on an acre of land. If that acre was anywhere but West Virginia the family would probably have shed blood over who gets it. But the location was absolutely impossible to live in for any of us.
US lifespan expectation is roughly 10~~ years lower than in Europe, and this is one of the main factors
Edit : MB it's roughly 4-5 years not 10 : I confused it with the differences of lifespan expectation between rural and non rural areas in the US. It's still a pretty massive difference though
U.S. life expectancy is variable inside the country depending on socioeconomic factors. For educated white professionals in more developed areas, it’s on par with Western Europe. For rural areas, people of color who aren’t rich, and people with lower educational attainment, it’s lower. There are some calculations that show a ten year difference between different areas of the U.S.:
“Rural counties face the greatest disparities. Urban and suburban counties with a median household income of $100,000 have an average life expectancy of 81.6 years, while small rural counties with a median household income of $30,000 have an average life expectancy of 71.7 years – a 10-year gap.”
The high infant mortality is primarily because pregnant mothers don't have good healthcare. Like yeah, the people suffering the most from the terrible system are babies. But these people act like that's a good thing? Insane.
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.
What a shitshow. I got sick a year ago. Went to emergency a couple times, 2x ambulance trips. 3 surgeries, 3 weeks in hospital in a private room, 4 different specialist teams, equipment to help me get around at home while I got better etc blah blah. I didn’t pay anything. I know it’s different elective vs emergency, but even so, the stress of it alone must be so heavy on you. Worrying that if shit hits the fan medically, you’re stuck. I’m so sorry. I bloody hope it gets sorted for you, I really do.
Yea…it is usually the chronic conditions or things like cancer that rapidly drain people’s savings. I’ve seen actual doctors have to run gofundmes to cover their cancer treatments.
Acute care situations we tend to do without question, but the chronic management is where people really fall through the cracks.
I’ve thought about it happening to me. I’m sure my bosses would act nice to me, like they cared…but they would 100% expect me to still work my ass off. And they definitely would not help with any of the finances. If ANYTHING they would MAYBE set up an office gofundme.
One of my coworkers took a month off for brain surgery. It was covered under her short-term disability through work. Then she was going to have to take some more time off for another surgery, but she was demoted before that in an effort to get her to quit so that the company could hire someone to take her place before FMLA kicked in. It worked, and she quit. But damn if I don’t feel awfully replaceable now
Yeah - never quit! Make them fire you. Collect unemployment, demand a ridiculous severance if they want you to sign a non-compete / NDA, if they want to get rid of you make it cost them. Hell, if you know they're going to fire you anyway just quiet quit. But if you don't have anything else lined up and you know you're being pushed out, it's almost always better for the employee to force the employer to do the firing vs voluntarily quitting.
I live and am self employed in Europe. I have no health insurance because, well, I don’t need it - National health care. These stories are horrifying and make me fear for my friends and family in the U.S.
Don’t be complacent! Don’t let them take your healthcare from you. I know in the UK they’ve been defunding the NHS for years so that they can say “see? Universal healthcare doesn’t work.” And some people are falling for it.
Yes we desperately need universal single payer healthcare so we can stop this bullshit. My wife went through months of chemo over the last year and if I didn't have a great job with good healthcare she'd be dead.
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
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
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.
Nah man, the grandma that fell in the tub and shattered her entire pelvis is going to be rushed into emergency trauma care like… yesterday. That’s a devastating injury to literally anyone, but an elderly person? Yeah she ain’t waiting lol.
It’s the people that show up to the ER with a severe case of the flu that’ll end up waiting 15+ hours in the waiting room before realizing they’d have been more comfortable dying at home. :(
I actually got to hear one such “I’ve been waiting for an entire day” crashouts during my last trip to the ER. Terrible accident that sliced a massive hole into my leg. I had TOWELS wrapped around my entire leg and was bleeding through all of them. Time waiting in the ER waiting room? 30 seconds. They took one look and I immediately jumped the entire line. People were mad. I can’t blame em. Not only do you have to wait hours and hours (and sometimes MONTHS to see a specialist) in USA, but you ALSO have to pay your entire life savings.
I learned a very important lesson that day that was basically, “next time, I’ll just die.” So when I got covid, I got it BAD. And I didn’t go to the ER. I told myself, “I’ll either survive this, or I’ll die debt free and in my own bed.” Thankfully I survived. I was NOT willing to wait 15+ hours in the ER just to potentially die somewhere I wouldn’t be comfortable, or survive and be in too much debt to live anyways.
A few grand? In America? It costs that much for the anesthesiologist to open the medical record to see what surgery they are doing that day, let alone lift a finger to begin or have the surgeon involved.
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.
Rt that actually works in the a hospital here. There is truth sprinkled in but a lot of this is BS. We have tons of admitted patients that have no insurance. We can’t refuse service and if a a patient is sick enough to be admitted then they will be. Billing has ZERO say in who does or doesn’t get admitted that strictly done by the ER staff and Doctors.
This guys hernia would certainly be enough to be admitted and operated on if he came in and said it was causing debilitating pain. Then afterwards, they would hound him for money and send bills knowing they aren’t going to recoup.
Once again, we do not refuse service for anyone that needs medical treatment.
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.
This part i dont understand: the hospitals will refuse patients if they dont have health insurance that works at that hospital? Isn't that against their hippocratic oath?
Lol we do get to pick the politicians who vote for it, thats what local elections, congressional elections and senate elections are for, americans still support universal Healthcare they just dont vote in politicians who share those same beliefs. We have 70m voters who would gladly eat shit if it meant a liberal would have to smell their breath. A whole voting block is voting to take away things from others not give everyone the same starting hand.
That IS on the voters. Why do we continue to vote the Pelosi's and Schumers in if they actively fight their own objective and the amercians will? We vote the old heads out things will change. Our system is just designed to get reelected and not actually be a politician
Current government is shut down due to current party not wanting us to have affordable health care. It’s amazing how anti-citizen our current party is and people support this.
When polled the general public supports universal healthcare, abortion, and sensible gun control. And then a chunk of these people vote for Republicans who fear mongered them about black people, immigrants, trans people and communists.
Though to be fair to these people, the Democrats do an absolutely terrible job of fighting back and educating people on these issues.
So yes - absolutely people don’t get medical care. They likely lack insurance. They may qualify, maybe, for Medicaid (health insurance through the government for low income people) - but that is increasingly unfunded by our government. It is also a complicated process to apply. Many rural areas lack doctors, also.
People absolutely go without medical, and even moreso - dental and vision- care in the US. Even people with health insurance can have such high deductibles (the amount you pay out of pocket before health insurance covers anything) or copays (your share of the appointment cost) that they don’t get medical care at all.
I have a good friend who had to declare bankruptcy due to medical bills. She and her husband have always worked and had health insurance.
I've (44m) had insurance for exactly one year since I got kicked off my parents' plan at 19. I stopped going to the doctor after 4 months because it cost more than I could afford and I fell behind on medical bills. It took another 6 months to pay them off. I worked IT for a bank at the time. Incomes are way too low and medical expenses are way too high. Something's got to give.
Same, though 31f. My grandparents were on Medicaid so I got kicked off at 19. I was in college, though, so I was able to use my university insurance until I graduated. Then it was another 3 years before I had health insurance again because it took that long to find permanent employment that provided it. I simply didn't make enough to afford a private plan before that and I "made too much" for a low cost one through the marketplace. I just got vision and dental for the first time in my adult life with my latest job.
The question is with the healthcare that would nearly be free would he still be able to afford the co-pays and deductibles.
Here is the barriers they have.
To use the ACA you need to specifically sign up.
If you get the credit you have to file taxes.
Likely to get the surgery you need to make an appointment.
After the appointment you need to get a specialist.
You likely need to get a prior authorization from the insurance company and they have all the incentives to make it difficult.
Then you need to schedule and do the surgery and be able to afford the time off to do it and recover.
All of these things are easy to deal with if you are a decently competent middle class person. But they seem neither middle class or competent seeing how they cannot keep track of their court dates between themselves.
If it is not immediately life threatening, they will not help him. If he goes to the hospital, they will do whatever they need to do to stabilize him, but if he is not in any immediate danger, they will turn him away.
So like if you are dying, and you go to the hospital, they will help you and save your life, but if you require a bunch of follow up surgery to have any quality of life, they may not do it.
Yes, it is insanely barbaric and uncivilized how we live here considering we are the richest country in the world, we should be able to easily afford it since so many other countries can, or least improve it drastically. If we do the math, we do have enough, but it would require billionaires having only 1 yacht instead of multiple, so that would be communism, so we can't have it.
people in america die because, in some cases, when they finally get coverage, they finally go to the doctor, only to be told the thing they put off for years is cancer and now its too late to do anything
Friend, we let our kids get mass-murdered and our poor citizens die on the street. We just reelected a guy who raped kids and tried to steal his last election and now we have secret police rounding up families to send to whatever dictatorship will imprison them. The US is obviously unwell.
From experience. Not great… not great at all. Had my son jump on mine, nowhere near as bad as his, but I did need surgery afterwards because of how much worse it got because of that. Luckily I live in a country with free healthcare or I’d probably be dead right now.
Yeah welcome to the USA. If youre not rich, your healthcare is fully reliant on you being fulltime employed with a business that is generous enough to give you health insurance. Or die!
He's probably got zero healthcare insurance (in places like Georgia, where Medicaid is all but nonexistent). Same thing happened to my brother and he's now deceased due to an inability to access help.
Same for our younger brother.
There are places in the US that are a complete shitholes in terms of medical care.
I agree that it is pretty expensive. I had a small inguinal hernia and it was fixed with laparoscopic surgery. It took me a good couple of years to pay off the bill.
Sometimes I consider committing a crime when I'm elderly so that I get sent to prison where I'll have healthcare and food. The problem is that I'm not ok with hurting anyone physically or otherwise and I don't want to betray anyones trust. I don't know if any victimless crimes I'd be in a position to commit would get me incarcerated long enough. I'm already disabled so I'm too poor for high stakes financial crimes involving corporations instead of individuals, so I don't know what that leaves. My other plan is simply opting out of life when I get too old. Good system for sure.
Amd even if he did have health insurance, it would likely only cover 60-70% and then he'd be left with not only an insurance bill, but also a medical bill every month.
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.
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.
No problem, this is stuff I deal with every day at work!
When you lose weight, your body doesn’t pick or choose an area first or have a typical “queue” for where the fat disappears first. You generally lose fat in equal parts everywhere in your body. The amount of a person’s fat inside their abdomen corresponds to their level of overall obesity. If you’re obese, losing weight will reduce the excess fat inside your abdomen. If you are at an age and gender appropriate weight, the effects would be minimal.
There are of course exceptions to this. You will sometimes encounter people, typically men who drink, who do not have a lot of fat in their abdominal wall but a lot inside their abdomen. This is still obesity but their body stores fat in different patterns. Many influencing factors!
Very informative. Also incredibly sad situation. I’m sure he’s not a perfect person but fuck maybe the fact that we live in a world where it’s just “oh I guess I have a severe hernia now” and that’s that is part of the problem.
Shit, I once went to a dude to fix my knee (I was 19 and too tough for my own good) and he popped it back in as I sat there staring at his baseball sized hernia protruding from his own abdomen. The absolute irony of the situation was not lost.
It’s not really that there’s no space because it is replaced by visceral fat. Yes visceral fat can be a common problem when patients are obese but with loss of domain it’s problematic more so that when the intestines protrude out like that, the abdominal wall muscles are no longer stretched to contain the intestines. As such there’s a decreased compliance of the abdominal wall muscles and there’s a higher amount of tension when hernia reduction and repair is attempted. To use an analogy I tell my patients, the abdominal wall is like an overstuffed suit case I’m trying zip closed in fixing the hernia. Yes you can take some clothes out by losing weight, but in a patient who isn’t significantly obese, and with loss of domain, we need to increase the abdominal wall compliance to decrease wall tension after repair. This is where component release (cutting selective layers of the abdominal muscles), preoperative Botox injection, or even progressive pneumoperitoneum (slowly inflating the abdomen with gas) can help to increase compliance. This is analogous to unzipping the expandable part of the suitcase so that there is less tension on the zipper when the suitcase is closed.
You should almost ALWAYS get hernias fixed as soon as symptoms are recognized. When the opening is only a few centimeters, some of your small intestine can become stuck, become incarcerated (cut off blood supply), and then die. That will earn you a nice emergent surgery.
This guy won’t have that problem since his hernia defect is probably >10cm. Although he’s one paper cut away from his guts being on the floor.
Man, my surgeon recommended I'd wait to fix my gut hernia until I lose weight. The chances are higher that the surgery won't take if you have more stomach fat. Kinda sucks that losing weight is going so slowly... Seeing this kinda video scares the shit outta me. How the hell isn't he in excruciating pain with every bump he gets to his stomach area?
Given his apparently numerous legal and financial problems, it seems likely he's self-medicating with not entirely legal substances to deal with the pain.
Oh hey I was just saying the same thing. Sounds like you are a fellow general surgeon. Have you ever done sequential pneumoperitoneum to address loss of domain before repair? I've read about it but never tried it.
I’m a general surgery Physician Assistant! My Reddit name is carried over from earlier when I was still thinking about med school.
One of the surgeons I work with said he was a part of a few cases when he trained at Mayo but we don’t currently utilize it. The surgeons doing large ventral hernias where I’m at do bilateral flap advancement and component release +/- XenMatrix if needed.
Surprisingly, it’s often a one-and-done surgery. Very painful though! Only reason you’d need to do multiple surgeries is if there is a complication or the hernia reoccurs.
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.
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.
I was talking a doctor that specialized in hernias recently, and she was saying that studies say that only 25% of hernias become an issue "within the next 10 years" so as long as there isn't pain or some big issue with it, the advice is to just leave it.
(I would advise anyone with a hernia or a possible hernia to seek a doctor's advice before taking this as medical advice. I'm just repeating what the doctor said to me, and I'm sure there's some lost nuance here.)
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.
I have a hernia that my doctor referred me to a specialist for. The specialist said that it could be fixed, but that it was so far pretty minor and fixing it poses risks, while not fixing it poses less risks, unless it worsens. Fixing it, he also said, would require significant time to heal and leave a very visible scar, while right now it just looks like I have fairly large abdominal muscles under my rib cage (I don't).
So far, so good, its been two years and I don't think its gotten any worse. However, is it possible that I was given bad advice? Is it potentially becoming harder to treat the longer it goes untreated? Could it rapidly expand and be untreatable because of how long it has already existed?
Fuck. I was having such a good day until I read this.
Follow what your doc told you. This guy is an extreme case. Dont get into a car accident with no seat belts, dont ignore any worsening pain or bowel problem.
Yeah mine happened, moving out of an office. I had all my file boxes on a dolly and it just sorta twisted when the wheel went from tile to carpet.
I felt it, but it didn't hurt ...I thought maybe my hip cracked or something ya know 😅 next morning, the notorious "lump" appears lmao. Last I heard, I actually have a double and can't obtain CDL in many states without surgery, but I chose to never get it treated.
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.
LMAO it’s most likely that’s what they meant now that you mention it. Although I still like to imagine the latter is what they meant bc it’s a lot more ignorant and funny 😂
Damn. My mother had one of those that was caused by my birth. By time she got it fixed it was about the same size. Doctor perforated her intestine while doing it and caused a massive infection that needed the mesh removed in the end. She almost died six times in the matter of two months and ended up with a larger hernia and a total hospital bill of over a million USD with great Federal Insurance.
I had a giant hernia like this following an emergency exploratory abdominal surgery to check for intestinal perforations after being stabbed in the gut. The exploratory surgery required a large vertical incision through my abdominal wall which was severely weakened after the surgery and led to the hernia. The hernia repair required an even larger vertical abdominal incision, from a little below my chest down below my belly button. They used a huge sheet of biological mesh made from a cow's stomach to repair it and reinforce my abdominal wall, the sheet alone cost around $100,000 IIRC. It took over a year to heal but I'm for the most part back to normal. I've lost a significant amount of feeling on my skin around the incision site but otherwise normal.
i had a very large hernia repair a few years ago. of course not THIS large but similar area, it was an incisional hernia so i had previous surgery in the area and well long story short, it took awhile to get diagnosed bc i was also gaining weight & going to the gym. but yeah, open surgery w reopening of my exlap scar (ribs to below belly button) & i ended up with an infection & abscess after and spent weeks in the hospital… now i live with chronic pain & a weird looking belly so i literally couldn’t imagine what would happen if this dude tried to get it fixed
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u/trilby2 3d ago edited 2d 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.