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Umbilical cord hernia?!
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decent enough summary....
hernia's are seen a lot....never seen an umbilical in anyone else other than a woman, so its not that rare either The repair seems like a relativly straightfoward operation, 1, possibly 2 incisions will be made around the umbilicus, any bowel or omentum (fatty crap that just protects the bowel) will be repositioned to avoid further incarceration (trapping) and to secure the weakness/defect the rectus sheath of the abdominal muscle will be overlapped over the defect (akin to having an electrical cable frayed and the blue and brown wires protuding out, and the surgeon taking part of the blue wire and sewing it across the brown wire so it makes a tight barrier which no wired can come out from...the wires are the abdominal muscles and the blue and brown insulation is the rectus sheath)
sorry if that is a poor explanation...it is hard to explain the blood and guts of it. if you want i can show u on an online gray's anatomy but it will probably confuse me as much as you
decent enough summary....
hernia's are seen a lot....never seen an umbilical in anyone else other than a woman, so its not that rare either
The repair seems like a relativly straightfoward operation, 1, possibly 2 incisions will be made around the umbilicus, any bowel or omentum (fatty crap that just protects the bowel) will be repositioned to avoid further incarceration (trapping) and to secure the weakness/defect the rectus sheath of the abdominal muscle will be overlapped over the defect (akin to having an electrical cable frayed and the blue and brown wires protuding out, and the surgeon taking part of the blue wire and sewing it across the brown wire so it makes a tight barrier which no wired can come out from...the wires are the abdominal muscles and the blue and brown insulation is the rectus sheath)sorry if that is a poor explanation...it is hard to explain the blood and guts of it. if you want i can show u on an online gray's anatomy but it will probably confuse me as much as you
danielson said:http://www.gpnotebook.co.uk/simplepage.cfm?ID=1100611607&linkID=17862&cook=yes
decent enough summary....
hernia's are seen a lot....never seen an umbilical in anyone else other than a woman, so its not that rare either
sorry if that is a poor explanation...it is hard to explain the blood and guts of it. if you want i can show u on an online gray's anatomy but it will probably confuse me as much as you
Thanks sweetie.
I appreciate all your time.
the wonders of private healthcare...2 weeks waiting at least you are getting it over with quickly, ur not even going under GA, i'd be more afraid of that than the op (some damn nurse kept trying to catheterise me as i was lapsing in and out of sleep, even though i left strict instructions they weren't to and even contemplating putting a post-it note on my nether reigons )
well the only other thing i can think of is that it might be worth rubbing vitamin E cream into the post op scar, plastic surgeons here tell patients to do that sometimes to avoid scarring....something to ask ur dr;s about, especially since im not one.
Emu oil is supposed to be able to break down scar tissue, but never tried it. and my mum swears by cocoa butter and shes into aryuveda so she's usually right. still white skin scars the least so i doubt it will even be noticable in the first place
at least you are getting it over with quickly, ur not even going under GA, i'd be more afraid of that than the op (some damn nurse kept trying to catheterise me as i was lapsing in and out of sleep, even though i left strict instructions they weren't to and even contemplating putting a post-it note on my nether reigons )well the only other thing i can think of is that it might be worth rubbing vitamin E cream into the post op scar, plastic surgeons here tell patients to do that sometimes to avoid scarring....something to ask ur dr;s about, especially since im not one.
Emu oil is supposed to be able to break down scar tissue, but never tried it. and my mum swears by cocoa butter and shes into aryuveda so she's usually right. still white skin scars the least so i doubt it will even be noticable in the first place
