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Aren't hernias usually repairable by surgery? Both of the folks I know who had them had a pretty quick recovery.

• spwa4 8mo ago
  What the surgery actually does is fix 2 disks of your spinal column against each other. It lowers the pain from torture to tolerable and reduces various risks. Also: you won't be so much as sitting up for months. I don't think many people will call that repair. Perhaps mitigation.
  • mrintegrity 8mo ago
    I think you are both talking about slightly different things: * Herniated disk in the spine * A "hernia": is the abnormal exit of tissue or an organ, such as the bowel, through the wall of the cavity in which it normally resides.[
    • spwa4 8mo ago
      That's called a "fistel" and it's a very serious condition, requires immediate surgery, and recognizable by the smell from roughly a kilometer away.
      • fwip 8mo ago
        No, a fistula is different than a hernia. If you think of your abdomen as a bag full of tubes, a fistula is a hole in the tube that connects to something else. A hernia is a hole in the bag, that the tube can poke through.
      • oaktrout 8mo ago
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hernia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hernia Im guessing English isn't your first language? Fistel is not a commonly used term.