My Dad is taking Ibuprophen, so maybe it’s not all that bad.
I saw him Sunday, and his surgery was the Friday before.
He did seem uncomfortable, but he also wasn’t taking as many pills as he should to keep the pain away.
Being a reasonable person (meaning a woman like me) you will follow doctor’s suggestions as to how much to take to keep the pain tolerable.
It seems like this surgery is done a lot. Sister in law did just fine and Dad will heal up too.
The hernia may have saved Dad’s life. Because he was in pain from the hernia, when he finally went in to see a doc about it (3 months after the pain started!), the doc looked over his whole body and found a suspicious skin area that they took a biopsy of. We found out at his check up yesterday that it was malignant skin cancer. My mother did not sound alarmed when she told me this yesterday. So the docs must think they got it all. It was quite a deep incision. That is also hurting him, besides the hernia surgery. The surgeries were done a few days apart.
Best of luck and heal up real fast and get back to FR, asap!
Thanks. Will stay positive.