Ouch!

About a week ago, I was taking out the trash, when I hurt myself.  Hernia.  Didn't realize it at the time, but sure enough, it was a hernia, from moving the yard waste bins, which the gardeners had over filled.  I was in pain for a week, mistook it for a pulled groin muscle, but it was a hernia.  My lower G.I. had broken though the muscle tissue and fell into a lower tract.  Had to go to the emergency room on Saturday after seeing my physician, he freaked out and said "Get to the emergency room!", so I went to the local Methodist hospital.  They did an ultrasound, found the hernia, so I was bundled onto a stretcher and taken via ambulance to the bigger hospital 3 towns over, and they laid me up for the weekend.  The specialist popped my hernia back in (Ouch!) but said I have an internal infection.  I have to be on antibiotics for a week or so, and go to the specialist to get a consultation prior to being patched up with metal mesh to "patch the hull" and prevent the hernia from falling out again.  I will have to go in for surgery, but first talk to that specialist at his clinic, and then schedule a surgery date.  Damn it.