Totally OT: Surgery
 

I've just recently started posting here again after an absence of some months. Hopefully there are still some old faces around who remember me.

It's pretty self indulgent of me to use the forum for this purpose, but here goes anyway....

It's currently Sunday night in Australia. Tomorrow morning I am going into hospital for major surgery on my leg. For anyone who cares, the detail may be found here. The upshot of it is that there's a chance that my lower left leg may be amputated. I don't know how much "a chance" is, but from what I've read I believe it may be around 15 percent, possibly even higher. This is not really what I had in mind for my 25th year on the planet and I'm somewhat frightened.

If anyone out there is religious (I'm atheist) please consider letting your God know that I'm not really a bad guy despite not believing in Him. For some reason it cheers me up to know that there are people (even basically complete strangers) out there wishing me well. Hence this post. But if any moderators want to delete this, I'd totally understand [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

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Good luck with the surgery, I hope it goes smoothly.

And I don't think even citanul's enough of a prick to delete this [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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"If anyone out there is religious (I'm atheist) please consider letting your God know......."

Isn't this abit contradictary? Anyway, hope you get to keep your leg. And if not, you can still play poker!

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citanul's moderating this place these days? Man. Who let that guy loose on an unsuspecting forum?

But since it's him, I suspect I could have attached porn jpgs to the post and gotten away with it [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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Tell women you’ve only got a few days left, and see if they’ll sleep with you. That’s my advice.

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First, I'd go with the above.

Second, it's amazing how the people who exceed "medical expectations" in these sort of things are those who are optimistic, even to the point of being irrationally optimistic. My uncle just got through having lymphoma on his spine which he (a) was supposed to not recover from (at all) a large % of the time; and (b) the times he did make it through he was supposed to have limited mobility, etc. He's the type of dude who has a "no, I'm going to get better because ______, and I'm going to get back to full health by doing _____ daily," attitude (West Point mentatily, I guess). No cancer, and he's walking 5 miles a day. He's a badass.

Point being, think happy/optimistic thoughts, and back them up with actions where possible. Best of luck.

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Chris,

I'm very sorry to hear about this. I wish you the best of luck and speediest recovery possible. Just when I thought you were coming back to the forum too...

See you soon,

citanul

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I read your blog, that sounds scary. I sincerely wish you the best, and hope everything turns out okay. Let us know how things go.

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Regardless of your personal beliefs, I will pray for you. You'll pull through just fine kid.

Sigma

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good luck, brotha - post when you're through with the surgery to let us know how it went.

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Chris, modern medicine is unbelievable. My brother-in-law was a semi-pro cyclist ten years ago. He was run over by an 18 wheeler semi-truck and it crushed his leg. (The seat actually tore his hamstring off from his groin all the way down his leg.) He was on life support and almost died.

Long story short, he had multiple surgeries, skin grafts, you name it. Ten years later (at the age of 40) he's still riding semi-professionally. We didn't even think he was going to live.

Keep your head up and I'll pray for you too. Let us know how it turns out.