Glad it went well! I was just about to comment on yesterday's post, when I realized that a day had passed, so you probably were out - and of course you wrote a post about it :-D
I had a couple of surgeries, one was my nose after cracking it one too many times, that was deep sleep, don't remember much. The second was the vasectomy, which was just local, and I was awake. Unfortunately, they didn't have a screen for me to watch what exactly there were doing, so I bothered them with questions until they gave me a really good dose of whatever, and I went kite mode.
As a son of PT, here's a really, really helpful piece of advice: Don't overdo it, but don't underdo it, either.
In all seriousness, I hope the recovery goes well, too, and you'll be up constructing front porches and garbage houses again, soon.
I have been thinking of doing this, what was your experience like?
Not a fan of the screen. For a colonoscopy it is okay, but open wounds... blah!
Yeah, it is something I am conscious of. I have a pretty high pain tolerance, so I have to be careful of the overdo it part for sure. The physio mentioned this Finnish thing of "sisu" where people tend to push through too hard and that I should use my "sisu" to take it easy :)
What do you mean by "cracking your nose" ?
I can't recommend the vasectomy highly enough. It's usually done within an hour, in the office of a doctor. Since I went to the public hospital, they had to make more of a fuzz around it, but it was free. I had swollen testicles for a week, no biking possible and I walked like a cowboy. I took Ibuprofen 800 for a day, 600 for another day, and then nothing.
It's amazing not to have to care about condoms anymore (in a monogamous relationship at least), and that Ellie doesn't need to pump hormones into her body to not get pregnant. One of the best decisions in my life. I think I'll write a post about it, the whole story is quite entertaining.
In resume, go for it. It's worth it, and you have enough experience with discomfort that you'll probably be like "That's it?"
I got my nose cracked by a ice hockey bat. It wasn't completely broken, but just had a crack, halfway through the bone. A few days later, I got an elbow check on it while playing football. And a day after that, I ran straight into a door in a dark halfway, a door that is usually always open. I went to the doctor, he broke it back into position (not pleasant), but it didn't heal properly, so I couldn't breath through one nostril, so they rectified that in a surgery.