Not the five-hour surgical intervention that would have left me in bed recovering for more than three months, but a much less intrusive keyhole surgery with a quick recovery.
These associations were also statistically significant prospectively, that is reporting negative intrusive thoughts before surgery was associated with three months after surgery reporting waking up during the night (PR 3.9, 95% CI 2.7-5.5 2.7-5.5ssive moodepressive 95% CI 1.6-2.1) and low or moodrate quality of life (PR 1.8, 95% CI 1.6-2.1).
Often, the children in question went through many follow-up surgeries, intrusive exams, etc., but were not told about the reason for these surgeries, or they were told that they had had "malformations".
The association of intrusive thoughts prior to surgery with symptoms of impaired quality of life three months after surgery may inspire others to study these associations further and to design clinical interventions ultimately aiming at increasing the level of quality of life for men with prostate-cancer diagnosis.
Last year interviewer Katie Couric faced censure for asking Laverne Cox, transgender star of Orange Is the New Black, intrusive questions about transitioning surgery.
More intrusive is endoscopic fetal surgery, in which surgeons manipulate a joystick-like instrument while watching the fetus on an ultrasound screen.
The prospective relationship between reporting intrusive thoughts prior to surgery and symptoms of impaired quality of life three months later gives reason to examine if an intervention at the time of surgery might prevent the negative intrusive thoughts from becoming persistent, and if men's quality of life could possibly be improved by such measures.
In other words, in a medical era geared toward discovering less intrusive surgical techniques, maternal-fetal surgery for spina bifida became more invasive.
Nothing weird or intrusive here.
