Hernia Scheduled.

Well been to see the surgeon. He again had me drop my trousers and this time the wife was there with me. As I lay there on the table some guy feeling me and having me cough I can see my wife sitting there watching. Though it didn’t bother me it was weird to have her watching. He did confirm I do have a hernia running down into my scrotum and it is probably pushing against the nerves the run there causing my pains.

He looked at scheduling me as early as Friday but the other doctor was not available. So now I am scheduled for 7:30am surgery on May 8th. They will go in and patch the hernia from the inside. Then when he is done with that surgery the other doctor will do the vasectomy while I am out. I will be getting it all done at the same time. Then the rest of the day Thursday and Friday I will be sitting around healing. Come online and chat with me and keep me sitting it is going to be a tough day.

Part of the discussion was will I be able to run the Bolder Boulder. He never gave me an answer either way but I took it as probably. He said don’t get myself into anything I can’t get out of. He also said he has had a patient take a month to heal and he had a 17 year old patient heal and back playing tackle football in 4 days. So it will depend on my tolerance. At this point it will be just over 2 weeks after the surgery to the Bolder Boulder so as I told my wife, as she frowned at me, that I was going to pay for and register and I could always not run it.

I told my wife I wanted to because a bunch of my friends are running it and I really would like to be with them. She said well if you can’t run it you can still go and hang with and support them. And I will hopefully be able to run with them and if not then I will be there to support them.