Hi, my scar is gown my chest and across to my tight. I keep meaning to ask my consultant why I was fortunate to to not have the Mercedes scar. Do any of you guys have the same scar as mine and have asked the question that I keep forgetting to ask. Come on Alf help me out here 👌🏼
Mercedes incision: Hi, my scar is gown... - British Liver Trust
Mercedes incision
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Hi Poobear,
I have the Lexus one, never really saw the point in the question but did think about it.
Mark
I have the same as you the Lexus. I didn't even realise there were other types. What's the Mercedes like?
• in reply toalfredthegreat
😁
Look guys... just be greatfull they didn’t give you an Audi !!!
A mini would be nice! lol
Beat me to it Alf!
All the scars are tight for a good few months it's awful having the Mercedes as a woman with big boobs I couldn't wear a bra for a year 😂😂😂
What's the Mercedes like jojo? I had no idea until today that there were different types for liver transplant. Alf
It's a straight across cut on the chest from left to right and then a little down ... If you go to my profile have a look down my posts you will see a pic of before and after x
Oh Right! Thanks jojo, will take a look.
Found it jojo. Yours is much higher. is that the cut that they do for women? seems sensible if so, you could still wear a bikini without scar being visible!
• in reply toalfredthegreat
I'm planning on wearing my mankini next summer. It's nice! (In Borat voice)
alfredthegreat• in reply to
Think it may be a while for me! lol
alfredthegreat• in reply to
I mean that I'm proud of my scar , I just need a better body to before I think of showing it off! lol
• in reply toalfredthegreat
You'll get there, slowly but surely 😊
alfredthegreat• in reply to
On of those striped victorian bathing suits with the arms and legs would do me! Forget the bathing machine I wouldn't have the strength to pull it into the sea! lol
😂😂😂
I’m sorry but you guys at cracking me up at 5:15am after a painful procedure on my lower back.
As we’re on the subject of scars, I have a bullet hole on my right tummy where my Ileostomy used to be. Plus a very busy motorway system after 30 plus surgeries and surgical procedures.
I have so many hip to hip motorways with only one exit; which if you miss, will put you on a one way system to pick up your violin🎻, meet your maker, choose a fluffy cloud (☁️ or⛅️ ), relax on the cloud and play tuneless music. 😂 👼 🎻
• in reply toLadyPenelope
Hehe penny very funny 😁. But also poorpooor you aaaggghhh. Good you can laff about it!
Miles
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LadyPenelope• in reply to
If I don’t laff I will cry my eyes 👀 out and end up with an almighty migraine. Then I will get angry with all the other annoying inanimate objects in my house and lie in ambush ready to tear my long suffering Carer; limb from limb. I wonder why she hasn’t quit. They don’t usually last this long.... 🤔🤨 I wonder what she’s got planned for me 😂😂
No it's the same for guys as well as been mentioned it's for mankinis as well (waiting for the pics as well kldn) 😂😂😂
Yours is much higher than KLDN's That's why I wondered if that's the womans cut.
Oh I have never noticed it was that much higher to be honest I don't know a lot of women with the Mercedes cut either most people seem to have a lexus
I did joke with the surgeon just before my transplant, I said "This is going to be keyhole surgery isn't it?" He had a good laugh and it certainly lightened the moment!
👌🏼 Classic 😂
You can say that again 😎
• in reply toalfredthegreat
No joke, the wife asked me if that’s the way they did it.
alfredthegreat• in reply to
That's what I call wishful thinking!! lol
• in reply toalfredthegreat
Yup
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Might be possible one day. They could suck out the sick liver then pump in some sort of memory liquid made from your own stem cells that solidifies and takes the shape of the old liver... Boom! Been watching too much Sci-Fi I know 😅
alfredthegreat• in reply to
They are actually working on ideas right now with the hopes of getting the liver to repair itself, I dare say that it will happen. Just look how technology has come on in the last 50 years. Certainly 50+ years ago none of us would have stood a chance! The good thing is (for medical science anyway) technology is moving faster and faster!
Poobear69• in reply to
Star Trek? 😉
Kate50• in reply to
My teenage daughter thought they did the transplant through my mouth 🤷♀️ 😂😂 now I know I have a big gob but seriously 😂😂
LOL. Nice one!!
That reminds me of when my son was about 3, he said
Mum, how does a baby get in your belly
I said dad gives mum an egg and it grows into a baby
He had a wee think and said
You would have to watch and not bite it when you swallow it!
I was buckled!
That’s 😂! My 998 year d grandmother thought my donor was a pig? She still doesn’t believe it was a wonderful man that had donated it. She I’d oh the view that to have another organ.id the devils work, well she is very old!
• in reply toPoobear69
IPad playing up pooh 😁?
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Santa not put a new one under the tree, you’ve been in the naughty book 😂😂.
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Careful Mark, you’ll get post removed for cruelty 😁 or summat!
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Santa, Reindeer or Trees?
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Your choice 😁
I love my Mercedes! All images I'd seen online prior to having it done were like that too. Could say I'm obsessed with symmetry. I used to think the Lexus was only for living donors.
P.S. Alf, mine is also proudly displayed on my profile somewhere.
alfredthegreat• in reply to
Thanks, taking a look.
Still looking for yours jojo!
• in reply toalfredthegreat
I could say something rude like you would be but I won’t...
alfredthegreat• in reply to
Trust you Pilo! lol
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I do my best
Check this post from a charmer on thread called.
Advice for high GGT and ALP
BretonBartin reply to PiloMilo
29 minutes ago
“No issue with well-researched advice from knowledgeable people. Pursed-lips busybodies and scolds, though? They can go. I'm sure the admins are well able to scour everyones' posts for rules compliance without help. Btw, someone 'not necessarily' on this thread storming off in a huff, then creeping back with a new name as they're too nosy (or lonely) to stay away isn't a good look.”
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I know what I should do but won’t sink to his level 😁
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Did you not do the storming off then creeping back with a new name too though? 😏
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Lol KLDN - he was talking about ME.
Never heard of him before though and no desire ever to hear from him-again...
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Ah sorry didn't realise. Should just go to bed 😬
alfredthegreat• in reply to
Ouch!!
Noooooooooo don't! lol
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Awww OK then I won’t- whatever don’t was for. Going outside and running round the garden to meet my fitbit target? Lmao - running - as if 😁
Milo
alfredthegreat• in reply to
It's a lot bigger Isn't it? I expect that cut gives them surgeons a lot more room to manouver.
• in reply to
Tad CDO? After the Vegan thing I’ll help with this one, how can it be OCD?
Poobear69• in reply to
I thought all of the scars were Mercedes style pre transplant? In fact for a few days after I wasn’t convinced that I actually had been transplanted, but that’s another sorry.................😂
Hi all
I have a Lexus. Before Jojo showed her scar on here I didn’t realise there were different sorts. I think Lexus is the standard one in France. I can imagine the nuisance for a woman having the Mercedes as mine, which starts just between my boobs, was annoying enough for bras.
• in reply toIsabelle2
That is where my second belly button starts, guess cross dressing is out of the question, lol 😂
I have the Lexus and i am female so I don't think it is down to gender. I think it is the surgeon's preference on how they do the operation. Oh and I have no problem wearing a bikini as I am proud of my scar, it saved my life. Any way now got an appendix scar to join it. Be able to play 0 & X soon. Lol 🤣🤣
Mine is a large upside down T. From my bra line to just above my belly button they did it that way for both transplants and the one across my tummy was from a baby so that’s been done 3 times xx I thought oh wow how big? But now I’m just proud and thankful xx
• in reply tolittleleah86
Both transplants leah??
Miles
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littleleah86• in reply to
Yes Iv had two liver transplants in 2016 and a kasai procedure 31 years ago x
• in reply tolittleleah86
Aaghh leah. Hhad too. Goooogle kasai - sorryy ipad broen ☹️
I was also wondering about this, how they decide. I now think it depends on which incision was taught to the surgeon and which one he feels comfortable with but might be totally wrong. Also, the size of the transplanted organ and the type of procedure. Welcome to the mercedez club 
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