post-ops

Buddy was a spectacle, his illness a subject of gossip: the weakness, the medical details ( "lungs fill up with water," "lungs like a sponge," "lungs leak"), the hospital visits and post-ops.

Beard 2010

Except for the hockey player whose trashed body needed an overhaul, most of my fellow post-ops inching down the corridors on walkers were four decades older than me.

Marcia DeSanctis: Airports, Security, Titanium and Lingerie Marcia DeSanctis 2010

Low-carbing is a rather accepted concept for post-ops, so I think your advice would be helpful for this community and that it would also be welcome since bariatric surgery patients know that low-carb is part of long-term success.

A call for help II | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2009

And don't get me started on the pecking-order politics of fully-stealth post-ops who are "just women" looking down on post-ops who can't be bothered with hiding their past, and they in turn looking down on pre-ops, who look down on non-ops, who look down on cross-dressers, who look down on fetishists, who look down on effeminate gays....

T is for... Zoe Brain 2008

Several that were diagnosed by those without medical degrees were affirmed post-ops with similar stories to mine.

HBS Zoe Brain 2008

Also in our industry, in order to give people good nursing/medical care, we are often treating them the way the NEED to be and not they way they WANT to be i.e. drug seeker in the er, making post-ops ambulate when they don't want to, etc.

The Hilton Hospital Mother Jones RN 2007

This would then allow post-ops who are still married to get their BC's changed.

Homophobic Bastardry Zoe Brain 2007

Even accounting for mortalities, Lynn estimates that the number of post-ops in the US is greater than 32,000.

Archive 2005-11-01 Zoe Brain 2005

Even accounting for mortalities, Lynn estimates that the number of post-ops in the US is greater than 32,000.

Brains, Gender, Humour, Pain, and possibly Depression Zoe Brain 2005

And as you can see, the pre-ops are on the left and the post-ops are on the right.

CNN Transcript Oct 23, 2004 2004