I'll be posting the details, observations and other (almost certainly boring) information about my hernia repair. But first, a little history... I had Lumpy (my hernia) for about 25 or 30 years or so. It was a ventral / umbilical hernia (the doc used both terms) centered about an inch above my navel and about a half inch to the right. It was maybe 3/4 of an inch in diameter. It normally didn't cause me any problems but would occasionally get irritated. Most of the time (at least ...