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Horse kick in '74 - the doc's thought I had a ruptured spleen - 1 night - just broken ribs.
~ '75, they thought I had a bleeding ulcer - 1 night and go home.
Few nights on a hospital couch/bed when "The Warden" was hospitalized for chemo, the last go-round.
I can NOT recommend hospitals for an overnight stay.

Difficult to say completely. I'll start in 2015. My second spinal fusion. Now L4, L5, and S1 are all fused. Stayed about a week. December 1917. Robotic surgery for kidney cancer. Portion of right kidney and lymph nodes removed. Stayed week or so. Sept 2018 prostate cancer surgery. 10 days or so. Nov 2018 partial colonectomy. Colon cancer. Luckily I had a little extra colon to spare. Had 2 internal infections, one was MRSA. Stayed 13 days. June 2019 major hernia repair from damage caused by other surgeries. Stayed I think 8 days.

Then further back some time for those two wrecks with hi level concussions, the first spinal fusion surgery, the hardware removal surgery on my spine, and the ruptured appendix I drove 200 miles with cause I was trying to finish a job before driving home to see my doc about that "ulser".

Other than that I'm all original. Just like I came from the factory.

A few nights with my wife when the kids were born.

I spent about 18 hours in one when my appendix spit the bit.

Back in the 80s when I was a teen everytime I had knee surgery they kept me a week or more. My acl was 9 days in the hospital in about 87.

I had my appendix out in Johannesburg in 1994 and they tried to keep me in the ward room with about a dozen guys for a week. I pulled my IV after about 2 days and walked to a friend's house.

I've probably done 25 nights in a hospital between 5 knee surgeries, appendix, and back surgery.

Bb

1999: Ruptured appendix. 14-days

2013: Liver transplant. Another 14-days.

In 1975 I had torn cartilage in my knee repaired and they kept me in the hospital for 7 days. Carpal tunnel on both hands in 1978, in for 3 days. Another torn meniscus in the other knee in 1982 for 3 days. Reconstructive jaw surgery in 1990 for 3 days. Flash forward to 2017. January right knee total replacement and March left knee total replacement. Both of these were out patient. At the surgery center at 5:30am for a 7am surgery each time. By 12:30pm I was home watching my own TV. Funny how times have changed in the medical field.

Ron

One Of my earliest memories is riding in an ambulance in England, about 1959 or 1960, critically high fever. I remember the cramped vintage inside of the ambulance and the two guys wearing their uniform caps and uniforms and that the siren of the ambulance was a bell. Pretty sure that’s when I ended up having my tonsils out, which was a cure-all back then.

Then here in the ‘States I was hospitalized for three or four nights age 14 when my appendix almost burst. Now they do it through your navel, back then it was a big old Frankenstein scar up your abdomen. I’d do it all again to get more sponge baths from that same nurse 🙂

Had my appendix out when I was 12 that was a day or two. Got T-boned by a 60's vintage Lincoln, that was a day. Woke up in a military hospital back in the 60's but no idea how long I'd been there and was so happy I was alive I didn't care.