I have had all four wisdom teeth removed. That was quite unpleasant as all were impacted and infected. I was a teenager so the limitation on eating was extremely difficult. I was starving!.
I have also had four surgeries on my feet. Since the surgeries were fairly successful they will have a hard time running me down to do any more surgery on me. The meds for pain after the fact meant that nothing really hurt. It was just that it took so long to get back to functioning normally. Six weeks just to walk, and almost a year to be able to jog. However, I understand that I am now considered a pariah by the anesthesiologists here in town. Apparently, I react oddly to anesthesia and often become combative. I had to be intubated for surgery number one because I decided not to breathe, I came close with surgeries 2 and 3, and then during surgery 4 I apparently kept kicking the surgeon. They brought me out of the anesthesia so I could control it, but I had no say in the matter – my leg muscles were possessed or something. I could feel them moving but I couldn’t stop it. BTW, I don’t recommend surgery without anesthesia. It hurts.
My husband is the surgery king. He has had an appendectomy (his appendix had ruptured several days before but he didn’t go to sick call; he died on the table), and a polypectomy in one of his sinuses (so he has only one eyebrow). He has had a quintuple bypass (that deep-sixed all 10 of his chest hairs), surgery on his hand and on his elbow, several surgeries to correct the aftermath of having had his gall bladder turn gangrenous and rupture (he was in a coma for 3 weeks and wasn’t supposed to survive – fooled them!), several surgeries for diabetic foot ulcers, and had all of his teeth removed by a Navy dentist. He has had seven laser surgeries on his retinas and just finished having cataracts removed from both eyes. He also had several broken bones while he played football, but only found out years later when they were xraying him for other things.
He has a lot of scars and becomes a major object of interest when he swims, or arrives in the ER yet again.