Get well soon electron

Hope he recovers 100%..

I’m glad it looks like you’re on your way to feeling better!

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Sorry to hear about all your health problems. It’s not all bad though if it made you decide to quit smoking. Keep getting better. I miss you in the Dive.

electron??

I do hope we hear from him soon.

Electron, one thing I do want to mention and that is as the scar is healing in the abdomen, massage it, this will keep adhesions from forming, I didn’t when they took my appendix out and now I have wonderful scar tissue wrapping around the large instestine. Nothing to be overly worried about yet, but the docs want to keep an eye on it. When they took out the gall bladder, I massaged the area faithfully and don’t have adhesions there.

Congratulations on stopping smoking.

Get well, we miss you.

Well, I’ve been hiding out mostly, trying to eat better and getting lots of sleep for over a week now. The hospital stay was like an exercise in sleep deprivation… you don’t get to sleep for more than 2 or 3 hours at a time because someone is always waking you up for a blood test, blood sugar check, temperature and heartrate, or just to torture you with more painful antibiotics. It has felt good to just SLEEP ten or more hours a day. I have NOT tried to impress anyone with trying to prove I’m “getting well fast” or any of that. I didn’t even get back to school until this week.

It’s kind of funny, because two days before all this happened, I made my first visit with a natoropath to see for myself if there is any merit to it or if it’s just a bunch of baloney. I even was thinking of starting a thread to chronicle my “naturopath adventure” but then this hospital thing happened and it got pushed aside. The naturopath said that “blood and hair tells all”… so I opted for the blood tests and the hair analysis to see what there is to see. I also added a “free testosterone” test to the bundle of blood tests, just because I wanted to know for myself, where it stands. (I know that’s a far cry from a full hormonal panel, but for only 30 bucks extra it will tell me where I’m at, anyway… which is something I want to know.) He took my hair sample over two weeks ago and gave me the form to take to the blood lab to get the blood tests done, but I didn’t make it to the lab until this week. After leaving the hospital I had another week of oral antibiotics to take, so I called teh naturopath and asked him if I should go in, or wait another week until I had finished all the antibiotics. He agreed it might be better to wait, so that’s what I’ve been doing, and finally this tuesday I went in and got the bloodwork done. He should have the results any day now so I’m looking forward to hearing from him soon and seeing what we find out.

Maybe in some strange, cosmic way, there’s a reason for this happening, right before I get started with a naturopath. He mentioned that because I smoke (or did, anyway), there could be cadmium that shows up, because that’s a common heavy metal found in cigs. No problem, he can chelate it out if so. It’s been 16 days now without smoking, almost 17 days. At least I won’t be continuing to add more problems! My penis sometime seems to be a little bigger these days, like it’s more relaxed, or something. More blood flow maybe. :)

Some of the bills are coming in now, what a joy. I’ve seen the one from the surgeon, it’s only $1,700 for the appendectomy which doesn’t seem so terrible after all. Others are trickling in from a myriad of other places that I wasn’t expecting, like the “imaging” company, anesthesiologist, and the “hospital internists” whatever that’s all about. I haven’t opened all these envelopes yet… maybe someday I will, when I feel like going into a nice depression. Maybe I’ll schedule that for next week sometime. :) Supposedly the biggie will come from the hospital itself, I’ve heard numbers like $900 to $1,500 per day they charge just to stay in the hospital, so nine days of that will add up to more than I care to think of, all by itself.

I hate this scar! I hate it, I hate it, I hate it! I took a stroll down the bandage aisle at the drugstore and theres all kinds of stuff: liquid bandage, liquid skin, and weird silicone-like bandages supposedly similar to what plastic surgeons use. Does anyone have any experience with all this new stuff? I would like to make the scar totally disappear, if that’s possible. As soon as I got out of the hospital I called the naturopath and he recommended some colloidal silver he has in a gel form, so I’ve been putting that on for over a week now. I’ve been reading a lot about colloidal silver recently too.

Sunny,

Thanks for that input! There is a hard spot under the skin going the length of the scar, and it’s a littel bigger or harder at the top of the scar, almost like there’s a “knot” underneath the top part. Definitely an adhesion. How should I massage it, just circular motions?

Electron

They make that stuff to help get rid of scars now. Have used it on my daughter and it works well. I also have a large scar on my stomach that I hate. It is about 8 inches long and 1/2 inch wide. Happened in 93 and over the years, it has faded some. Good luck on a speedy recovery.

I got some scar cream and will start using it when this skins over a little more. I’ll gently rub out the adhesion a little bit too, but gently. I don’t want to rip anything up.

I got the results back from the naturopath too. Interesting stuff. I’ll have to make a thread about it.

Great to see you’re doing well, Electron.

For the scar, Centella Asiatica (Gotu Kola), either applied locally in cream and/or taken in pills.

Take good care of yourself.:)

Bone-pressed? :D