Medical woes

It doesn’t remotely compare to what theklute‘s been through, but annoying and upsetting nonetheless.

A couple of years ago I had a fairly serious group of procedures done that involved a double hernia repair, removal of scar tissue from an old knife wound in my lower abdomen, and a few other things.

Since then, I’ve had occasional bouts of abdominal pain, but nothing so regular or debilitating that I did much about it. I chalked it up to age.

I recently learned that the mesh patches used in a lot of hernia surgeries are being recalled for serious failure problems. The symptoms they list are pretty similar to some of what I’ve been experiencing.

So I called to see if I could find out if I received the defective patches, and I learned that my surgeon has closed his practice — and from the tenor of the comments, it was because of malpractice suits. Not sure of that, still researching.

Now I’m trying to get through the red tape to get my records to see if I need the second surgery to remove these fucking things from my gut before they kill me with a perforated bowel.

Life. It’s what happens while you’re trying to live.