Chime in if you've had major surgery...

[Deja Q]

but someone you know or have talked to shrugged it off as "nothing".

[Courtesy Flush]

1. Here

Not surgery, but when my brother heard I had a broken neck he said "ain't that something". Never called or wrote.

[MsKandice01]

2. I had gastric bypass surgery...

And my boss at the time was calling me a week and a half later asking if I could come back to work that day. Considering that I had been cut from breastbone to navel, I was not happy.

[KitchenWitch]

4. I have a similar story

Not a gastric bypass, but I severly injured my back on the job (as a shipping/receiving associate). I literally could not walk, and I called into work, to tell them that I would not be in until 6 weeks after my surgery. My boss went to her boss' office, they both called me on speaker phone and threatened that workers comp may not pay for the surgery and the time off, I guess, in an attempt to see if I was faking. :eyes:

[dropkickpa]

3. Gallbladder removal

was told by the head of my program at school when i returned just 9 days later (still in LOTS of pain) "Oh, lifting 50lb dogs should be a breeze!" Um, hellooooooo!!

[VeggieTart]

7. One of my former coworkers also had to have her gallbaldder removed

Apparently, the boss lady (my former boss) was not happy that she was going to be gone for two weeks.

[caty]

5. Eighteen months ago I

had surgery for a burst appendix. It was hell!:cry: I was told I would recover in about eight weeks---it took eight months.

[bertha katzenengel]

6. My mother told me that when she told her dad I had to have heart surgery

3 mos after I was born, he said "whoop-de-do."

Yeah. He was an asshole. He's dead, more than ten years now. Oh, how I weep. :sarcasm:

[radwriter0555]

8. C-section, but I've shrugged it off as 'nothing'....

even though apparently the surgical removal of an infant from one's womb is supposed to be rather epic.

Didn't bother me none.

[QMPMom]

9. Yeah, when my BIL (sister's husband) had a

liver transplant (hereditary cirrhosis, very rare), we were all scared to death we were going to lose him. The Dr's. didn't give him any chance at all to come through the surgery he was so ill.

We'd keep my MIL informed of the situation and she never once reacted to it. Never said, "Oh, that's too bad." or "Oh, I'll say a prayer for him." or *anything*. (We lived 5 minutes from MIL, it's not like she lived across the continent and we rarely spoke to her. There was some sort of contact *daily*.)

It totally pissed me off that she was so nonchalant when my sister could very well have lost her husband and my nephew could have been fatherless. I think that she decided to not recognize the severity of BIL's condition and ignoring it was her p/a way to try and deflect attention back to her.