HAY MAKER said:
Been wondering about you OT,anything serious ?............good luck
Well- Shouldn't have really been- but I let it get that way...I ended up having emergency surgery on Sunday... Ended up with one of those war wound scars even the veterans won't show...Sister called me while in the hospital Monday and said it proved what she had always thought - I definitely am a "pain in the arse"... :twisted:
Started on Tuesday with what I thought was just another case of internal hemmorhoids- that I've had a couple times before- and that puts me flat off my feet...Insides ache all the way up to your navel....Well anyway Saturday morning my entire bottom systems shut down on me- wife hauled me to ER where the Doc originally diagnosed as prostratitis- drained 2500 ml off my blatter and admitted me for antibiotics...When by Sunday I had no relief- they had the surgeon check me and found out that both the Docs before (that diagnosed me with hemmorhoids and the one now that said it was a prostrate problem) were both wrong... I had a perianal abscess (actually two) and they did emergency surgery to drain them and fix them... Immediately relieved most of the pain- and immediately my temp started going back down and my blood count came back closer to regular- everything down below started working again :clap:

.... Got out of the hospital yesterday afternoon and am almost back to normal-- altho I was planning to gather a pasture this weekend and the Doc said definitely no horseback or even 4 wheeler for 2 weeks....
Something everyone might want to heed is that the surgeon said that altho its not known what causes them- these abcess's are commoner than thought and many times misdiagnosed by the GP Docs for hemmorhoids or prostatitis, like I was previously- then they rupture, you get relief but they will likely return as there is nothing that will fix them without surgery...And I know many ranchers/farmers have hemmorhoids (or think they do) from all the sitting on saddles and tractor seats....
Good news is that I don't have internal hemmorhoids and probably never had them...
Bad news is that I'm going to be a little slow moving for preconditioning and won't be able to ride gathering the community pasture and trailing home this week- but the kids are all coming home tommorrow night and going to handle it for me....
But the real bad news for you Haymaker is that this surgeon is from Texas- and she told me that while she was working there she saw about twice as many cases...As normal- everything is bigger in Texas :wink: :lol: