Have you undergone surgery?

Have you?

I have heart surgery and then underwent a car accident.

I've had heart surgery, but only via one of those wiggly things they shove up an artery. I've so far escaped general anaesthetic, but will probably be having fairly major surgery this year. I need to lose a bit more weight first, although my BMI is under 30, the anaesthetist is concerned about my sleep apnoea. Personally I think he's being a bit pedantic, and it'll probably make no difference, but I guess an anaesthetist who's concerned about safety is better than one who isn't.

Alright now that you answered I'll answer, no, yeah kinda.

Doctors cut in me to get my wisdom teeth out, they were placed kinda sideways, they had to cut into my gums, it really wasn't a big deal, I've heard people refer to it as surgery, but I usually say no when people ask because they expect something that's a little bit more dramatic than having two teeth removed.

For my appendix when I was ten. That's pretty much it.

I've had lots of stitches though. Probably more than I can count...or care to.

Does a circumcision count?

You underwent a cardiac catheterization for an angiogram and coronary artery stent placement?

Yes. I have the least impressive heart surgery scar ever, which is a small dot on my wrist. At least being conscious I got to appreciate the surgeon's sense of humour, since he was cracking jokes and winding up his colleagues for the entire procedure. (I hasten to add that he was very good.)

Lucky enough to have never needed serious surgery.

Unlucky enough to have seen my father go in for serious surgery he didn't come back out of.

I've had several surgeries in my lifetime, mostly on my seeing and non-seeing eye. I have a scleral buckle in my left, seeing, eye that keeps the retina properly attached. Without those surgeries I certainly wouldn't be able to see at all.

I blacked out and stopped breathing once and ended up in hospital, but no surgery was involved. I don't recommend waking up in a hospital bed with no memory of how you got there. It's a disorientating process.

Assuming I read you correctly, this is what is medically referred to as a "procedure". I had this, or something very similar, done to me early February 2008 when a stent was inserted in the main artery of my heart to correct a 70% blockage. When, at a medical appointment, you are asked if you have had surgery, this sort of thing doesn't officially count. At least mine doesn't. I tell 'em about it anyway.

I also had some sort of device wormed into my lungs to remove a nasty infection that led to me coughing up a prodigious amount of blood one night several months following my heart procedure. That was the same same night steady rains over saturated my yard, uprooting four Cypress trees along the border of my property, one of which proceeded to fall into the neighbors' house. LOL...some days it doesn't pay to get out of bed.

A great many years ago I had what was at the time termed dental surgery. It was a rather gross affair, much more traumatic than either of my two "procedures". But that doesn't really count either. Or does it?

Yeah, only appendix for me too. My life has been boring safe and accident free enough to avoid any major injuries

This sort of happened to me once back in high school. Although I woke up in the nurse's office and then went to the hospital. Still don't know why they did that, or why I had blacked out.

But as for surgeries, besides wisdom teeth extraction that I'm sure everyone goes through (mostly everyone anyway), I can't say I've had anything serious done.