Wiseparasite

Did you have the surgery where they slide a bar in the side of your ribcage and "pop" your chest out? It's a pretty painful surgery and after I recovered I thought to myself that I would never go through that again.

I had the surgery about ten years ago when I was 15, I got out of the hospital on my 16th birthday. It was the most painful experience of my life, the epidural didn't really help. I was in ICU for three days and the hospital for a total of nine days. When i was getting discharged I remember thinking to myself that I didn't really want to leave because I was still in pain.

Like you I had the surgery for medical and some cosmetic issues, but mine wasn't as bad as yours. I wish you a speedy recovery.

Sorry, I didn't watch that video. I've actually never seen a video of the procedure. It makes it look a lot more painful haha.

That's great news! One day out and you're already doing this AMA.

When the tech came to take my epidural out I guess he didn't know what kind of surgery I had because he just threw me up and ripped off the tape and forcibly(OK I may be exaggerating a bit) put me back in bed and just left. The guy was so careless. So right when I got it out I had to call the nurse for a shot of morphine.

There was a complication I had six months after my surgery where a wire came loose and started trying to poke through, so I had a quick surgery to remove the locking brace on the left side. I got my bar removed three years after my surgery. Still kind of have a sunken chest, but it's not nearly as bad as it was when I was fifteen.