When you recount your experiences with an operation if asked, do you understate to not frighten anyone or overstate for dramatic effect?

by RosieGHM Jetpacker on January 28th, 2010

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kybear Jan 28th, 2010 Wanna see my scars?

I'm usually as honest as I can be. When I tell you quadruple bypass is really a bad experience, I'm being completely honest.
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- RosieGHM Jetpacker I can imagine it must have been unpleasant my friend. Opening up your chest and playing around with the contents sounds painful and the time it took to stop hurting must have been lengthy. Thank you for your answer. I had in mind those women who make childbirth sound like the Spanish inquisition and go through torturous detail about how painful it was thus scaring the bejesus out of everyone! :)
  
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Aries RSA Jan 28th, 2010 Understate. There is nothing worse than going for an op frightened out of your mind by horror stories.
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- RosieGHM Jetpacker I totally agree with you Aries. Each person's experience is different. One size does not fit all. Those people who go to gruesome lengths to tell you chapter and verse about how much they suffered are doing themselves no favor because they come off as overly dramatic whiners and they do damage to others...so nobody wins. One person's experience is that person's. The degree of dramatization versus actually saying what happened can be extremely different. Some people moan/groan over a hangnail while others can stoically take whatever comes knowing it won't last forever! Thank you for your answer and Happy Friday! :)
  
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