[defcon65]

I had a umbilical hernia done a month ago, piece of cake, I was out in the garage toying with the Porsche in three days. The groinal hernias, that may be different. My brother had both sides done at the age of 50 and he was down for a week with limited mobility for another.

I say get it done. Had I known it would be so easy, I would have had it done years ago.

If you schedule it for outpatient, YOU get to pick the surgeon. If it pops out and strangulates on a Tuesday night at 9:30, you get whomever is on call or in the ER. Something to think about.

My surgeon told me he had done several hundred of these and it would be a cake-walk. He was right.