I went to get my pins out today.  First one came out smooth as butter, didn't even hurt.  Didn't feel good, but didn't hurt   The second one he yanked on with pliers for 20 minutes until I was having breathing difficulty from the pain   S I have to get it removed in the OR tuesday   He said it's not a big deal, worst case they drill another hole right next to the pin to give it room tio move   Best case they'll be able to yank it out   Either way I'll be under anesthesia so whatever.

Now the really bad ( the above sucks but I can get over it, hell it didn't really surprise me) :
2 months til I can bounce again
4-5 before I can re-enlist because of the physical profile of my MOS

The semi-good:
He said 1 month and I can ride again, I just have to promise not to get hit by any trucks

could be worse man, still sucks.  Heal up man

I popped 4 percocets when i got home....still hurts

frickin ouch  anything that involves any part of me and any part of a drill  eeh... bring on the gas! hope all goes well for yah!

yeah, it hurt like hell when he was yanking on the pin with pliers without it budging   It's percocet time again

Quote from: spcterry on June 21, 2007, 12:09:15 PM
yeah, it hurt like hell when he was yanking on the pin with pliers without it budging   It's percocet time again

One of my friends just went through something similar... he had foot surgery and I remember him talking about how much it hurt when they had to litearlly YANK the pins out... 

the first one didn't hurt at all but the second just didn't want to come out ohh well they'll get it out in the OR then I'll have my hand back

haha percocet sucks.  percocet, to me, was like chewing gum to solve a math problem.  vicodin is where it's at.

It does decent for me usually.....it's not cuttin it right now.  i might have to go back and try to weasel a vicodin scrip outta the doc.  thankfully his office is only a quarter mile away..........hmmmmm.....maybe some IV morphine

you get used to percocet too quickly.

I will say that no pain killers really "kill my pain".  Vicodin, though, makes me not care.

Toridol-  it's synthetic and non addictive.  They use it in the ER when someone doesn't respond to morphine.....like me.  Morphine works but not that well

Ouchhhhhhh......I wish more doctors believed in EMLA cream (fortunately, mine does!....but then, I don't have to be manly...I can scream and writhe in pain if necessary).....  Glad they're putting you to sleep, dude!!

......to get the screw out, silly!!!!! 

P.S. EMLA cream = topical anesth. that goes pretty deep if you leave it on for an hour!

I've heard of it.......Doc said it doesn't work well for deep muscle or bone pain   this thing looks so nasty sticking out of the side of my thumb and there was blood everywhere

I wouldn't have been able to watch...I think they'd have had to put me to sleep before they came within 10 feet of me.... 

toridol sucks, too.  When I got all burned up they gave me $500 worth of toridol to start with and when it didn't work they told me "just give it 45 minutes and see if there's a change".

I hate my doctor...

I have to keep it bandaged, not out of medical neccessity but because the sigh makes me sick
I didn't watch,  it's never a cmforting feeling to see your doctor yanking things out  of your body with regular ass pliers

at least it's something you know isn't supposed to be in your body.  I've seen the majoraty of the bones in both my hands and quite a few others.  I've had more superglue enter my system than any other foreign object...and I've been stabbed/gouged/cut/etc more times than I can count.

Quote from: makenzie71 on June 21, 2007, 01:46:06 PM
at least it's something you know isn't supposed to be in your body.  I've seen the majoraty of the bones in both my hands and quite a few others.  I've had more superglue enter my system than any other foreign object...and I've been stabbed/gouged/cut/etc more times than I can count.

what excatly do you do for a living???

He's a korean prostitute...ya know like cartman was in that episode of south park

suckie suckie...5 dolla!!!!