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Old Oct 7, 2010 | 11:49 PM
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what you had done or whats your major injuries!

sitting at home recovering from my 2nd RT shoulder surgery in 7 months. first was bone spur. just had torn Labrum and fraying rotator cuff. Also have two stress fractures in my right ankle.
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Ive had nine in the past year all from UC. Also had my knee done for a torn ACL.
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5- Brain surgeries
2- VP Shunt installs
3- Hernia revisions
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10 surgeries in total (7/03-8/09)
Old Oct 8, 2010 | 02:38 AM
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Originally Posted by 1GreeKtC
5- Brain surgeries
2- VP Shunt installs
3- Hernia revisions
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10 surgeries in total (7/03-8/09)
Show off.
Old Oct 8, 2010 | 03:16 AM
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had my ulna and radius snapped in half back in 4th grade, had knee surgery to fix a torn lateral miniscus and to remove half of the cartilege underneath my patella due to the fact that it is spongy, had laproscoptic surgery to remove a 5cm cyst, and had my wisdom teeth removed before they broke through my skin (yes that is a surgery for me bc i was at an oral surgeon and my teeth were impacted) lol :-P next surgery for me will probably be for my hernia if it gets worse and foot surgery is on the list too
Old Oct 8, 2010 | 03:20 AM
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Originally Posted by CIONIDE
Show off.
Most definitely not.
Old Oct 8, 2010 | 12:31 PM
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lol to show off....

one surgery for me....knee cap slides
Old Oct 8, 2010 | 01:08 PM
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Nothing major.

Wisdom teeth (Feb 2010) - All 4 removed by oral surgeon due to them being impacted. Darn things took nearly 4 days to stop bleeding and I couldn't eat or drink until then, and all the gauze in my mouth was keeping me from closing my mouth up. My tongue literally got to the point that it felt like a piece of sandpaper when I touched it. But being put to sleep for the surgery was an interesting experience.

Also had ingrown toenails removed on one side of both my big toes. That was several years ago. Dunno if any of you count that as surgery or not. I've heard some people call it that, and others not. I have a feeling I'll have to go back in the next year or so and get the other side fixed on one of my feet.
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Originally Posted by 1GreeKtC
5- Brain surgeries
2- VP Shunt installs
3- Hernia revisions
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10 surgeries in total (7/03-8/09)
anyone top this! haha
Old Oct 8, 2010 | 01:48 PM
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Originally Posted by 1GreeKtC
5- Brain surgeries
2- VP Shunt installs
3- Hernia revisions
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10 surgeries in total (7/03-8/09)
this explains alot...


j/k man, what the hell did you have brain surgery for!?
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^ lemme guess, brain mods! he must have a titanium plate in there already lol
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lmfao
but hes had them since he was 11 maybe even younger i think thats what he told me....
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Originally Posted by yellowxhoodie
this explains alot...


j/k man, what the hell did you have brain surgery for!?
I had 3 recurring brain tumors, these ____ers didn't want to go away. After the third one they had to install an internal tube, called a VP shunt, that drained all the brain fluids since my body wasn't doing it properly (hence causing me all those headaches and creating memory black outs).
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^ lemme guess, brain mods! he must have a titanium plate in there already lol
hahahhahaha pretty much put in a faster server. For real though I should be considered an "airhead" since big chunks of my brain were cut off.
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lmfao
but hes had them since he was 11 maybe even younger i think thats what he told me....
You disappoint me buddy. I thought you knew better.

I've had those symptoms since I was 5 years old but didn't address the issue till I moved to this country in late 2002. First surgery took place on July 4th of 2003 when I was 17 years old.
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Originally Posted by 1GreeKtC
I had 3 recurring brain tumors, these ____ers didn't want to go away. After the third one they had to install an internal tube, called a VP shunt, that drained all the brain fluids since my body wasn't doing it properly (hence causing me all those headaches and creating memory black outs).
holy ____.
thats serious business, glad to here your doing better now.
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Yeah man after 50 extra lbs, 6 scars, a lot of funny stories and a ____ load of experience, it's just a distant past for me. Thank you though.
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electrocuted fuggin hardcore lol..had to restart my heart..caused my fingers to fuse/melt together so i had surgery to get them apart..fingers look perfectly normal which i thought is pretty awsome :D
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wow! Some good ones. I forgot I had all 4 wisdom teeth and a septoplasty (reboke nose and did some soldering) cause of a deviated septum i had. But brain surgery now thats up there. Glad things got better for you.

I like the electrocution one there. Fuseing two fingers together is cool!
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I'm not on Petros' level by any means, but I've had my pinky broken so bad I had surgery to put it back into place, and I had "surgery" for my ingrown toenail on my left foot so many times that they decided to just take it off for good. haha. so I have no big toenail on my left foot.
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Originally Posted by breauxseph
I'm not on Petros' level by any means, but I've had my pinky broken so bad I had surgery to put it back into place, and I had "surgery" for my ingrown toenail on my left foot so many times that they decided to just take it off for good. haha. so I have no big toenail on my left foot.
Omg! What's that like? I'm almost certain I'll be going back soon enough to get the other side of one of my toes fixed. Dunno if they'll remove it quite yet.

To me, it seems like everyone has freakishly large big-toe toenails, lolol.
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Haha. mine was like that for a while with just the sliver out of the side, and it just kept coming back over and over and over again. So, he just went all the way and took the whole thing off. It's not super weird looking or anything. I mean it looks kinda creepy if your wearing sandals but you can't really notice it from a distance.



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