Hospital Operation

[leverage123]

My friend has to go into hospital for a benign tumour removal shortly. As he and I have never been in hospital
he is wondering what will happen when they take him in for the op.
He knows he will have to change into a hospital gown. He is wondering if they will examine him first,
want to see him naked etc. Any help for my worried mate would be appreciated. Thanks.

[rmprdl1964]

Hi,

I have been in hospitals on numerous occasions where the problems dealth with my genitals or that regeon. I have had numerous cystoscopies as well as a left orchiectomy, hernia repair and recently intestinal blockage which is still under infestigation.

First of doctors and nursing staff will do anything possible to preserve a person's dignity.

During my last hosptial stay, I for the very first time in my life haf to use the dreaded bed pan. Due to other problems, having a catheter in I needed help with this as well. Still I was given as much privacy as possible. While taking a shower in the hospital, I was helped to start doing so but was than left to do what I could by myself.

Currently it no longer bothers me to be nude in front of nurses and doctors. These people are professional and will treat you with respect. You have nothing to fear.

I hope that all goes well.

Ron

[AnnieBrooke]

:)

[leverage123]

My friend has read this and says a BIG thankyou.

[AnnieBrooke]

Generally speaking medical personnel are very careful to preserve the patient's modesty.  Besides that, doctors and nurses are so entirely accustomed to the human body that they just see it as their workplace, not as sexual.  It's like anyone who is expert at something -- they see it as a place to begin solving a problem, and are totally focused on that.  (It is not like they are all going to line up and gape at him or anything.)  

When I went in for my last D&C, they had me not eat from the night before.  Then we went early to check in, then sat in a waiting area and filled out a long form telling various medical things.  Then they had me come into the pre-op area and had me change into a gown.  I was curtained off from others, and had a rather comfortable little wheeled bed (a gurney).  My gown was very fancy -- it had a blower that blew warm air into it, so I wouldn't get cold!  But in the past I have also just been given heated blankets by the nurses.   They then came in and drew blood and asked me more questions, gave me a Valium (I think), started my I.V. (this means a poke in the inside of the arm or on the hand, but it is truly no big deal) and then gave me a sack of saline to drip into my I.V.  They also gave me the kind of drug people use to keep from getting carsick or seasick, on a patch behind my ear, because from past experience I know I will get queasy when I wake up after anesthesia, and that prevents it.  All the drugs needed to conk you out will go through the I.V., even if you will be wearing a mask during surgery.  They then rolled me gurney and all into the operating room, where they had me shift onto the table.  (My gurney stood by so I could ride back to post-op in it.)  I looked at the shiny light in the ceiling for a little while and they put on my mask (giving me oxygen, which is great stuff to breathe!) and then they knocked me out by putting something into my I.V.  I woke up in post-op, where the nurses were watching out for me.  I always take a long time to wake up, and could have snoozed there for hours, but they kind of pushed me so I could get dressed, and then my husband and son came to pick me up and that was that.

I would suggest your guy take a nice shower that morning, leave all his jewelry at home, of course have someone to drive him, take in his health card and that's about it, and dress simply in loose clothes.  I do recommend the motion-sickness patch, and unless they are operating on his feet, he might keep his socks on.  It's cool in operating rooms!

Tell him all the best from me.  You'll both be amazed at how smoothly all of this works.