First medical procedure...

[Darran]

I had gall stones removed about 15 years ago and when I left the hospital they said to make an appointment to go to the doctors in a weeks time to have my stitches out.
I forgot and about a week later I was sitting in the garden on a nice day and I thought I’d take the stitches out myself,I was sitting there with a scissors snipping away and one of the daughters next door looked over the wall and said “what are you doing?” I replied “taking my stitches out.”
She screamed and nearly passed out. :lol:

Neath_Jack knows her he’s probably been there.

 

[Muteswan]

Did anyone ever have adenoids removed?
I didn't but my sister did at a young age.
What exactly did the op involve?

I had my tonsils and adenoids removed when I was 6 in 1959. It was in the old Swansea General Hospital, and the beds had bars on so you couldn’t get out.
Best part was all I could eat for a while was jelly and ice cream.

 

[Swanjaxs]

Anybody been circumcised?
Can't see the point myself

 

[Dr. Winston]

Tonsils and something perforated eardrum related when I was five or six (think Singleton Hospital were offering a BOGOF deal). Appendix when I was nine. Otherwise I've rarely troubled either hospitals or GP's.

The odd X-Ray here and there but that's about it.

 

[JackSomething]

Absolutely Dicky, have had so many stitches over the years from the best hard working individuals I know

I once had to have stitches in the webbing in my hand between my thumb and forefinger after picking up a cup that had just come out of a industrial dishwasher that was scolding hot.
The cup smashed and blood splat against the wall of kitchen I was working in, 1 person spewed :lol:

I'm sorry, but that ending of '1 person spewed' had me uncontrollably laughing for a minute there. I could have said it had me in stitches, but that would have been in poor taste.

For me, I had to go in around 9 years old to have some teeth taken out after refusing point blank to let a dentist do the needed work on them (It was my sister's fault after sitting in the waiting room listening to her screaming the surgery down, she was only having a filling!). After that it was having screws put into my broken elbow at 18.

 

[MajorR]

Broke my wrist when I was about 8, fell off a slide at the local park. I was in plaster for about 6 weeks and it ruined my first trip abroad as I couldn’t go swimming.

 

[Robbie]

Going in a slightly different direction concerning dentists I still vividly remember , even from nearly 60 years ago , my first visit to the dentist to have a tooth extraction .

He really was an unsympathetic man , never trying to put me at ease . me sitting in that big horrendous leather armchair they used , then the gas mask came , covering my nose and mouth and forcibly held in place by the dental assistant as i fought against the procedure , I was only 6 at the time .

The rubber smell of that mask still haunts me to this day , thank goodness dental practises have moved on from that awful experience .

 

[sainthelens]

My ex mother in law went 45 years without anything done, then soon as I married her daughter she had her personality removed.

 

[Muteswan]

Going in a slightly different direction concerning dentists I still vividly remember , even from nearly 60 years ago , my first visit to the dentist to have a tooth extraction .

He really was an unsympathetic man , never trying to put me at ease . me sitting in that big horrendous leather armchair they used , then the gas mask came , covering my nose and mouth and forcibly held in place by the dental assistant as i fought against the procedure , I was only 6 at the time .

The rubber smell of that mask still haunts me to this day , thank goodness dental practises have moved on from that awful experience .

That was my experience exactly. That smell! Still with me today.

 

[controversial_jack]

I've had a camera down the japs eye, up the nose, and down the throat. No at the same time, of course. An endoscope down the throat wasn't a lot of fun

 

[Robbie]

Going in a slightly different direction concerning dentists I still vividly remember , even from nearly 60 years ago , my first visit to the dentist to have a tooth extraction .

He really was an unsympathetic man , never trying to put me at ease . me sitting in that big horrendous leather armchair they used , then the gas mask came , covering my nose and mouth and forcibly held in place by the dental assistant as i fought against the procedure , I was only 6 at the time .

The rubber smell of that mask still haunts me to this day , thank goodness dental practises have moved on from that awful experience .

That was my experience exactly. That smell! Still with me today.

The old NHS Dental clinic in Gorseinon was where that dentistry took place , even after all these years and I am in that area my eyes drift towards that building , still get shivers .

What made it even worse for me was seeing the gas bottles on full view , no attempt to disguise or cover them over .

 

[MugfordsJack]

2 stitches in my forehead when I fell over when arsing about at lunchtime in Llangyfelach School when I was 6.
Appendix out at 11 and 10 operation/procedures since (knees, left foot, nose etc).
Do laser treatments on eyes count?

 

[K23]

Reading what some of you guys have been through, I reckon I've got off pretty lightly Never had any stitches or fractures. Had my tonsils & adenoids out as a nipper then a serious ankle injury in Feb '83 when some c*nt of a left back went straight through me with both feet damaging ligaments both sides of my left ankle. Match was abandoned as I had to lay there on an icy pitch until an ambulance arrived as everyone thought it was broken. Was in plaster for 6 weeks. One of the first things I recall doing once the plaster was off was limping towards Kenilworth Rd with my brother to see the match Paul Walsh scored a hattrick in, Aprl 83!

 

[Fbreath]

Had polyps removed from my nose at 8 years of age. I was always sniffing and nose twitching as they irritated my nose.

I was meant to be having Swansea trials the weekend before the op but my mum wouldn't let me go incase I got sick or injured and the op would be cancelled.

I never forgave her.

When I was 6 my mum bought me a toy trumpet from Woolworths, was walking past Boots (were Mcdonalds is now) broke free from her hand and run off blowing the trumpet fell over face first and the trumpet went to the back of my throat. 4 days in old Swansea Hospital on St Helens Road but lots of ice cream as it was cooling on my throat.

 

[BrynCartwright]

Fell off a rope swing aged 11 and broke my 'wanking' wrist. Happily for me they could put it back together under general anaesthetic.