Anyone have a hernia in their stomach repaired?

Crap.  I just read it can take 4-6 weeks before you can do any kind of heavy lifting.  I just went through something like that.   

Just got the results of my ecocardiogram.  Guess I will not need a valve replacement.  Good thing, I had pretty much decided not to let them crack open my chest again.  The Cardiologist said other than shortness of breath, it is not painful to let yourself go that way.  

Might was well go ahead and have the hernia repaired.  Starting over on PT and workouts anyway.  Anesthesia doesn't seem to bother me other than I have a hard time coming out of it.  I remember the nurse slapping my face the last time.  Not really hard.  Just enough to piss me off and wake me up.  

Thank you sir.  It has not been scheduled yet though.  Not even had a consultation with General Surgery.  My ecocardiogram was scheduled almost two months ago and we have been waiting on the results, which I got this morning.  Very happy, of course. 

The nice thing about this, timing wise, is that my insurance plan has a stop loss provision.  This procedure should hit it, which means any subsequent treatment, PT and so forth will not be added to my medical debt.  Too bad it doesn't apply to my fucking medications.  Oh well, ya can't win them all. 

Having the preliminary ultrasound Friday.  Will be told if it is surgery or not.