Has anyone had a hernia?

[sutur]

yeah...worst day of my life bar non!!!...I had to decide to have him put down over the phone cause I was in hospital waiting for the bloody doctors to do the bloody hernia op...I couldn't even say goodbye...

as for the pain I can imagine what that felt like..I had a drain inserted into my chest cavity...felt like I was slowly being stabbed ( you know that scene out of Saving Private Ryan where there is the bloke on the stairs too frightened to go up and kill the german who was stabbing the yank soldier with his bayonet) bit like that!....but shattered pelvis must be up there.

Why was there a cavity in your chest?