Um I've had internal pins and plates in two places in my fore arm - internal plates in my upper arm. A rod placed in my leg and pinned at the hip(top) and around the knee(bottom) Surgery for my cruciate ligament. Surgery to reconstruct part of my hand. Surgery for a Skin graft. Then surgery to remove most of the above too. One more operation to be done to reset my wrist which needs a small op then I'm planning on giving up on the whole operations carry on.

I've always been stapled back together - I didn't mind removal of them. In one instance I removed staples that held the skin together that ran the length of my bicep, due to a cock up with the hospital not giving me an appointment for removal of them. I just used a set of nail clippers to cut the staple in two and then houked out the other half x (quite a lot).
I did have pics and put them up a while back, I've since lost them so not much to show other than tasty scars - I like them they tell a story

Morphine serves its job well especially when you can self administer by pressing the button every so often to increase the dose.

**Edit**
Nearly forgot I needed surgery around the groin area(just opened up really) so they could repair the femoral artery which I severed.