OK, if I make it just two more days I will have gone the entire summer without going into the hospital for the first time since 2002!
Whoohooo!
Mundane and pointless. 
Maybe you should stay in bed with a novel for the next two days, just to be safe!
Seriously, Congrats to your innards for doing their jobs! I know you’ve had a hell of a time in the past.
Not mundane and pointless, in my opinion. Sounds like good news.
I agree with WhyNot, though. Hiding in bed with a good book and the TV remote might be a good idea. 
Good luck!
My boss says that I am tempting fate by bragging. Ha! I not only tempt you fate, I taunt you! And I say Ha! again. 
Oh Boy. You’ve gone and done it now. Email me an address so I can send flowers. Make sure you tell me if it’s bed one or bed two.
I’m very happy for you! Congratulations on the most excellent news!!!
Khadaji,
While I don’t know the specifics of your situation, I am familiar with a similar predicament. My wife has had over 20 surgeries since November, 2002 and is still walking around with an open abdominal wound.
I wish you all the best and pray for your health. May whatever afflicted go away and never bother you again. Long-suffering people deserve every break they can get and I hope you get yours. Good luck and good health!
Congratulations! Good luck on the next 2 days!
On a similar note, I am still awaiting the year when nobody in my family is hospitalized – and we have a rather small family. It’s been decades.
I know the feeling - my wound is still open too! It has been for over a year. It is gonna be the biggest scar I have ever seen that wasn’t on a burn victim. And my stomach bulges out oddly through my belly (it looks like I’m trying to smuggle a medium-sized cantelope.) But what the heck, I lived and am gonna live and I suppose no one ever has to seem naked again anyway… May whatever gods there be, be with you and your wife too.
Great news, Khadaji. May your health success continue!
Through all of the surgeries and wound care, we’ve gotten a medical training we’ve never expected (or wanted)! I can do wet-to-dry packings in my sleep. I’m on a first name basis with the owner of the medical supply store. My wife and I know which anesthesiologists do the best spinals and which ones make her back look like it was attacked by an epileptic woodpecker. We can field strip a JP drain and do emergency repairs of KCI Wound vacs.
The only advantage I’ve found is when a co-worker said that her post-surgical husband was developing a bulge under the incision. I told her it sounded like he was developing a seroma and needed to see the doctor right away, who would drain the fluid and probably put him on antibiotics. Sure enough, that’s exactly what it was and just what the doctor did. The doc even told my co-worker it was good they caught it before the wound dehisced.
Keep that wound clean, get your rest and good luck!
Woohoo! I made it! Although I did have a near, miss driving home last night.
wOOt!
pops open the champagne
reconsiders
pops open the sparkling spring water
Congratulations! Every day you stay out from under the scalpel is a plus! Celebrate (cautiously) and take care of yourself. I want to hear that you make it through the winter untouched by the rubber-gloved ones. Unless, of course, you are into that for recreation!
Naw. Unfortunately I’ll be in sometime soon. Probably around Feb. The wound that they left to heal by secondary intention is basically the equivelent of one big hernia. So they have to go in and repair that some day.
Yup, my wife’s been through that too. I hope it works better for you than for us. My wife got MRSA in the first mesh they used for repair, the tension closure didn’t hold, she was allergic to the second type of mesh and the bio product they just used (pig membrane!) fell out after a week. Fortunately it had been in place just long enough for the ventral hernia to knit together. Of course she still has the open wound that occasionally needs debriding but at least the hernia seems to be fixed. AAAAGGGHHHH!
Anyway, I hope it goes smoothly for you.