Re: my fun trip to Pre-Op

Dear Jroma,

Head for the hills, my friend! If the same numbskulls are going to be
passing the gear and drugs in the OR and this is just the docs idea to
justify writing Rx's for narcotics, time for a new doc, at the least a new
hospital. I bet you were just waiting for the PA to announce "paging Dr
Howard, Dr Fine, Dr. Howard" and see all 3 of the Stooges flying around the
corner on a gurney going "woooo-woooo-woooo-woooo!" That's all that sounds
like it was missing. Do yourself a favor. Have somebody write on your chest
and back with a sharpie exactly what they're supposed to be cutting on.
Sorry if I'm scaring you by ragging on the docs, Pre-Op is a tense enough
thing to go through. But those assholes do a hundred a week, they should
know better. It should be like walking in to a church/opium den where
everything is there to be calming to you, the patient. It makes you wonder
what post-op is going to be like. I hope there's someone at home that can
bring you your percosets while the staff is chugging your pain meds. Get an
itemized bill. it's bad enough they'll charge you $12 for a percoset, but
it damn well better get in you.
Thoughts are with you and prayers for a perfect outcome.

Keep in touch, especially as it gets closer--og


jroma <plrfdaq@xxxxxxxx> wrote in article
<pCYng.2808$ii.648@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>...
well just got back from my pre-op, my surgery is a week
from thursday. I'm sitting here suffering like a stuffed doggie LOL

first I totally forgot last night about my appt this morning, lol so, I
wake
up 20mins late. call them no prob, so I rush out the door.
get there. 3 ppl ahead of me, no biggy. so, I had to go to the bathroom
so,
I walk alllllllllllllll the way back down this long hallway
(it's like 500ft long!) well the elevators are right there, so I hit the
bathroom then hit the elevators run down to my car which was
right outside the door and have a half of smoke, go back up, gone all of
5min at most, then no sooner I sit down they call me to go
back. great! so, the male nurse (ex-figherfighter he tells me) takes my
blood pressure, opps! 150/90 and pulse is 81, I tell him naw
take it again in a few and told him about running down to the car. so, he

then looks on my papers and sees I'm a diabetic. then tells
me that I have to have an EKG, fine no biggy. get the EKG done, if my
heart
looked any better, it'd be dancin' a jig! so, the the guy
comes in to draw my blood. well I have dequavain(sp) in my wrists and
they
can't bend a certain way. well he grabs hold of my wrist
before I can say anything and snaps my arm straight out! OUCH! you rotten

***! so then I say something right as he's putting
on the thingy around my arm. SNAP! within 30sec I feel the pulse in my
hand
and feels like it's about to split in half and it's bright
bright red! then he tells me that he wants me to lay FLAT! no, not even
to
have my knees up. HELLO? I cannot lay flat you phucking
moron! You want my arm how? um, no, I'm not having it stiff as a board.
You
can get blood just like this. my arm was slightly bent.
well he tells me he cannot. so I tell him get me someone that knows WTF
they're doing! so the nurse comes in and says thats the only
way blood will come out. I tell her she's full of *** that since I"ve
been
diabetic every 3 mons I get blood work done and gee THEY
dont have trouble getting blood out THIS way! so she then says well wait
till the doctor comes in. SO. he comes in have to tell him
at least 10x to LOOK AT ME so I can understand him. then I have to tell
him
another 20x that I'm NOT a type 2 diabetic. and then I have
to explain to him just WTF Novolog is. hello? it's insulin for a damn
pump!!
(this is the pre-op doctor?) then he proceeds to try to tell me
that ALL diabetics have heart problems and that I have to see the
cardiologist to get cleared. Then he asks me about 15x if I have or
have had chest pains. I told him, nope never, but thinking brother you're

bringing them on! I'm like this is BEYOND BULL***! I got there
at 9am and now it's 11:30am and I've NOT had coffee or eaten all day. So,

fine, I break down and go to cardiology. fill out the papers then I'm
told
everyones at lunch and that I have to wait until 1pm when they all return

and that I cannot eat! I'm like OH BULL***!. so, I left. went to burger
king came home picked up the kid and we went back at 1pm. get in there
see
the cardiologist. first thing she asks me, "when did your chest pains
begin?" I'm like... 'I don't have chest pains!" then we talk for a bit
and
she proceeds to tell me that my EKG looked the best she's seen in a LONG
time, and that I have the stongest pulses in ALL of my pulse points BUT I

still have to have a stress test done. Fine! so, I go down to the cath
lab.
The registration girl asks me, "when did your chest pains begin?" again.
"I
DON"T HAVE CHEST PAINS!" then the nurse asks me when I get into the back,

"When did your chest pains begin?" again........... "I DON'T HAVE CHEST
PAINS!" lol then another
nurse comes in. "when..." I immedately yell out. "I DON'T HAVE CHEST
PAINS
BUT YOU PPL ARE MAKING ME START!" haha they think I"m a funny duck. So,
the
one nurse explains what they're gonna do and tries to start an IV on my
right arm, nope., so she tries again in another spot on my right arm.
NOPE!
so the other nurse says let me try. so, she tries now on my upper left
arm,
nope! then aha! nice big vein on my left hand (I can ONLY imagine what my
BP
was at this point, it was 110/68 about a hour earlier) so I look down
finally after about coming out of my skin from the pain and here she was
saying, "Oh we have great blood flow, we just can't get it threaded in!"
WTF
ever that
means, well I'd had enough. told her to get some freeze spray or
lidocaine.
well no one had either so... now I have to go back wed at 8:15am for the
IV
nurse to get me an IV started so they can do this stupid nuclear stress
test, JUST so I can be told that I don't have a heart problem so I can
have
the back surgery.

I swear to pineapple gawds! If you aren't sick going in that place you
sure
the phuck will
be when you leave.

so. that has been my wonderful wonderful day... then from standing around

and walking all around the hospital and up and down and up and down the
tables to be looked at, I started with 2 percocets.. 2hrs later no dent
in
pain, took another 2, no help, at lunch finally said
screw it, took 2, 30mg morphine, then while in cath lab 2hrs later still
hurting took another percocet. FINALLY, something kicked in and pain went
to
a managable dull roar. my left hip and mid back still are hurting like
I've
been hit by a truck.. and sadly, I'm still not "high"
to where I dont' give a ***.

ain't life just grand?

so was your day?

-j

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Reisa Kersting



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