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I feel cheated.
So many members have been able to proudly post and boast about getting an enema before and sometimes additional enemas after surgery, and some of these surgeries have been as recent as 30 years ago.
I had surgery in February 1980, nearly 50 years ago, to repair an inguinal hernia, and I was not given an enema of any kind before or after surgery. I would have gladly endured almost-nonstop, gut-growling stomach issues to have a cute female nurse administer an enema before or after surgery. All I got before my surgery, was a male nurse shaving me from my naval to my knees using a Bic razor with shaving cream.
Today, the inguinal-hernia repair is done with minimally-invasive surgery with tiny slits in the skin so they can insert a camera and few instruments into the out-patient patient who goes home that afternoon. The patient has mild constipation right after the surgery from the narcotics used during the surgery, but then only needs Tylenol for mild pain and Tylenol does not cause constipation.
In 1980, the surgeon fileted me like a fish, cutting me open from my toenails to my tonsils so the surgeon could fit his two fat fists and a small nurse through the incision. I was in the hospital for four days and the shots of Demerol every four hours killed the pain and made me high, both of which were awesome side effects of the drug. However, the primary purpose of the Demerol is to cause severe constipation in the patient and it accomplished this purpose very well. But did I get any enemas that might cause almost-nonstop, gut-growling stomach issues? Nope. And I would have happily taken the risk.
I felt like the stitches were going to pop every time I strained to poop. Somehow I got a staff infection. The surgical site swelled up and the next time I had to poop, I strained and the stitches popped and puss and blood poured out all over me.
So, I feel like suing the surgeon and the hospital, not for the staff infection which was their fault, but for not giving me at least an enema before the surgery and one a day while I was in the hospital.
$100,000 compensation for pain and suffering seems fair.
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