Dan-2023
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Thank you Watchful and Good Intentions for your insight and advice. Very helpful and much appreciated! 🙂
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Hi Watchful – I appreciate you sharing! Very experienced surgeon, highly recommended referral as well, and I was completely confident in his approach when it was explained to me.
I’m curious – what are you seeing in the highlights that makes this case non-routine? Thank you for your thoughts!
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Hi Good Intentions – Thank you for helping me better understand all of this! In terms of exercise, I’m now walking 2x/day at 2+ miles with some slow climbing and it feels good during the day. I’m hoping to get back into road cycling, but that hasn’t felt so good due to the location of the incision in the groin.
Just found the highlights of the operative report:
* Open repair of initial reducible direct right inguinal hernia with mesh
* The bulk with the hernia was evident as a direct space hernia.
* Approx. 3-cm defect; direct preperitoneal tissue likely including portion of the bladder were reduced into the preperitoneal space.
* Used a keyhole piece of polypropylene mesh, which was circumferentially secured to the floor of the inguinal canal using interrupted 0 Vicryl.
* Internal ring was made to fingertip tightness with the legs of the keyhole mesh.
* (This is interesting. Not sure what this means?) There was bulky intact transversalis muscle that had just separated from the inguinal ligament. Nonetheless, we were able to get good reapproximation of the floor and reinforcement with mesh.
* There was good reapproximation of our external ring, although the fascia was significantly attenuated in this location. Nonetheless, we completed this closure and then closed the Scarpa fascia … etc. -
Hi MarkT – thank you for chiming in! Although I haven’t tried to sleep extensively on my side, I noticed last night that I wasn’t getting any quick relief by trying to sleep on my left side. For now, I’m avoiding trying to sleep on my right side, since that’s where the repair is.
For the most part, I sleep on my back; and even if I fall asleep on my side, my unconscious self will shift to my back while I’m asleep.