philip1 (imported) wrote: Tue Aug 03, 2004 10:26 pm at the office of Dr. Kimmel. We were early, 9:00am we go in for his preop consultation. By 9:30 I'm in surgery. This is where things got weird, I had NO sleep the night before so the 5mg (yes just 5mg) of Vallium knocked me for a loop and I got nauseous. I had brought my iPod with me so I wouldn't know what was happening (didn't work) I ended up talking with the Doc throughout the surgery. Due to my own despiration and stupidity the Left side (Seattle trip) had massive adhesions. Dr . Kimmel took almost 45 minutes to get all of that cleaned up the rest of the surgery only took another 45 minutes. After he had finished all the cutting and sutureing he had me lay there for ten minutes or so. When it was time to get up that is when I had real problems. I stepped off the table and sat in a chair when (probably due to anxiety no sleep and the val

philip1 (imported) wrote: Tue Aug 03, 2004 10:26 pm sure dropped dramatically. It took less than a second for the doc and his assistant to huff me back up on the table. Talk about a scarry moment Kimmel's assistant had to try three times to find my blood preasure (yes I was that bad) but it came back up. Thanks to the wisdom quick thinking and caring of Dr. Kimmel and staff I am able to write this post. So anyone that says Kimmel has slowed I say they're WRONG. During all this I had my best friend in the whole world with me Bubba (they couldn't have stopped him if they tried). When I was strong enough I was taken to the lobby and laid feet up on a couch. Everyone came and checked on me about every minute. soon I had strength enough to get up and walk arround a tiny bit (I had to pee really bad and needed to find the restroom). After about an hour it was Bubba's turn. Bubba's surgery took over 2 hours due to worse adhesions than I had. After it was all done we were propped up in Dr. Kimmels office for postop consultation (pills and whatnot that had to be taken). We all agreed if you are planning on having the scrotum removed at some point it is better for healing to have it removed at the time of castration.