You can never have enough...

[popeye333]

I remember my husband going through that surgery at Rotorua hospital back in the eighties. He had stretched the ligaments grasping tools on the log line at Wood Panels in Taupo and could no longer open and close that hand. So off he went, driving himself over for the surgery the following day, and back a few hours after, still numbed out by the pain blockers, but without a script for ongoing pain control. On a Friday. Those wore off by evening and I was out tearing around Taupo madly trying to find an after hours supply of decent drugs - he was in agony. The local hospital finally came through with a few tablets and we both got some sleep.

Next day that damned fool man was out weedeating the front garden...

Still makes me laugh to this day.

Some men can be right twerps at times. 

MrP had a groin hernia repaired. Home the next day. They told him if he could walk he could go home. But had to take it easy. So the day after getting home he was out chopping wood and kindling for the coal range. And to top it off they caught a nerve near the skin in the scar and its hurt all along.. His GP didnt tell him to ask that they cut the nerve, before he had the surgery. It was after when he told him .. pillock lol