Medical conditions in prechristian medicine was often named after known dwarfs.

[no, I am actully *not* making this up]

Hernia, for instance, is still called "brokk" in norwegian and swedish. Brokk is the name of the dwarf running the bellows when Thors hammer was forged. [see the connection?]

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(the one on the right)

Had one of those when I was a kid, not fun.

Also a very lasting scar.

Scars are good. Scars have the power to remind us yesterday was real.

That is also interestingly shaped, it looked like a heart chamber.

the hernia, or the scar?

The carving.

nice. Interesting surgeon.

probably put his heart into it.

Pff.

as a kid? Umbilical then?

or not as an infant, perhaps? since you remember?

No, I think it was when I was 4-7 years old.

then inguinal?

(groin)

I have no idea my dude, it's my groin though.

ya. Then inguinal.

Right side.

I have one now. 😄 Comes with old age.

The ripe old age of 4. lmao

haha 😄

you were 4, but your abdominal wall had already lived a hard life.

The inguinal hernia is due to a weak port where the testicle passed through the abdominal wall when you were a phoetus. It is originally an intra-abdominal organ (when we were reptiles), and has to descend through the abdominal wall to get outside - leaving a defect in the structures holding the abdominal cavity contained.

Unless you are a christian, then it is intelligent design.

Which means God would have a very morbid sense of humor.

I'm just glad I don't remember it, because it probably was none-too-pleasant.

ya. You count backwards from 20 and wake up next to a cute nurse.

Funny story, I actually flailed once when waking up from being under anesthesia and almost hit the nurse.

They often do.

Of course I apologized profusely.

a short post op delirium.

The brain needs a little time to reorient itself.

In the meantime it is in somewhat of a chaos.

It was maybe 2-5 seconds at most.

If you remember that state, you can understand why demented pts are sometimes extremely scared.

Just a shock to the system.