Tag Archives: The Great Hernia Adventure

RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: Hoping You Avoid The Great Hernia Misadventure

What more can I say than best of fortune in your hernia adventure. Unfortunately it is no snip snip and hop off the operating table with your “normal life” rushing up to embrace you. Expect pain of some degree and disruption in your routine. It took me a month before I could bend over andContinue reading “RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: Hoping You Avoid The Great Hernia Misadventure”

RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: Kindness, Compassion and Gratitude

If mindfulness encourages self compassion, it also is partial to you expressing compassion and kindness to all those suffering with hernias and who will undergo or recently have had completed some form of hernia surgery. Mindfulness would have you meditate transmitting positive and encouraging thoughts to these fellow human beings they experience as little anxiety,Continue reading “RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: Kindness, Compassion and Gratitude”

RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: Post Surgical Mindfulness

Being certified in mindfulness from both the University of Toronto and the University of Leiden I might venture to say I have both a North American and European perspective of mindfulness. Being frank there are some flaky elements to mindfulness but some concepts should (or could) be applied to your hernia adventure. There is moreContinue reading “RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: Post Surgical Mindfulness”

RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure:  Recovery from Inguinal Hernia Surgery: The Terror of Anticipated Pain and Opioid Pain Relief

Dr. Google/ChatGPT explain the over-the-counter pain relief medications and the big guns like opioids the latter instilling, perhaps rightly so, terror of opioids. I am sure you have your personal perceptions of the evils of opioids. On a scale of 1-10 my view is I’ll take post hospital when my pain scale is a 12/10.Continue reading “RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure:  Recovery from Inguinal Hernia Surgery: The Terror of Anticipated Pain and Opioid Pain Relief”

RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: Recovery from Inguinal Hernia Surgery: PAIN AND SUFFERING

There would seem some consensus as to some of the temporal aspects of pain after inguinal hernia surgery and the bottom-line conclusion of expect some pain is not debatable! What is not so easily ascertained is the length and severity of the pain. Pain is a relative concept. The degree of pain experienced by thoseContinue reading “RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: Recovery from Inguinal Hernia Surgery: PAIN AND SUFFERING”

RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure:  What Exactly is the Hernia Club and How I Will Make a Fortune Out of it: Hernia Pay for View Event

Not to exaggerate but hernia surgery is big business so why not cash in! I am close to finalizing a pay for view event “Hernias the Agony and the Ecstasy” with Fightview International based in Pineville, North Carolina. There will be three event viewings. View one: “The Scourge of the Hernia Plague” View two: “HerniaContinue reading “RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure:  What Exactly is the Hernia Club and How I Will Make a Fortune Out of it: Hernia Pay for View Event”

RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure:  What Exactly is the Hernia Club and How I Will Make a Fortune Out of it: A Global Hernia Help Hotline?

Given that hernia surgery is one of the most “common surgeries” in the developed world and the citizens in the developed world have massive amounts of cash to squander on consumer goods why not create a global hotline assuaging and profiting from Hernia Fear? Where there is medical fear there is money to be madeContinue reading “RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure:  What Exactly is the Hernia Club and How I Will Make a Fortune Out of it: A Global Hernia Help Hotline?”

RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure:  What Exactly is the Hernia Club and How I Will Make a Fortune Out of it: A Surgical Resort?

Your admission into the Hernia Club (Inguinal Division) commences from the day you emerged from the shower and noticed a bulge just above the waist. Membership ends upon your death. There is no initiation fee, annual charge or minimum bar and restaurant tab required. No need to worry about global inclusion and diversity. The preponderanceContinue reading “RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure:  What Exactly is the Hernia Club and How I Will Make a Fortune Out of it: A Surgical Resort?”

RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: Surgical Options and Preparing for Your Big Date

Be aware there are several surgical options; open, laparoscopic and robotic. The method chosen may be totally your choice or it may be dictated by the type and complexity of the hernia. Take the time to familiarize yourself with the differing methods. You may have the option to do nothing or wait. But circumstances mayContinue reading “RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: Surgical Options and Preparing for Your Big Date”