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Well will you looky here, a brand new sub-forum that should cure the ills I've long stewed about.
(Insert "Happy Dance" smilie here.
Well as you can see here I am typing my first post today because the surgery didn't happen, came down to the wire though.
We got there shortly after 9:00 a.m. and the surgery was scheduled for noon sharp.
They poked and prodded, drew two different samples of blood for a Chem 8 and an HTH and after two tries finally got an IV started, third time is the charm on Halloween I guess.
After laying on the gurney from about 9:45 a.m. until 1:00 p.m., my surgeon was very late, the anesthesiologist started having the same concerns that I had, although I hadn't voiced mine to anyone except y'all here, and said, "that with the heart conditions and issues I have that he just wasn't willing to risk putting me under anesthetic where he didn't have access to an ICU and extreme care and emergency cardiologists for back up just in case I went flat line on them."
I guess my old ticker is in worse shape than I even thought.
He talked with Dr. Gaede my neurosurgeon and he agreed.
Now why in the hell couldn't they have figured this out the first time?
Now I have to start all over again, get the surgery rescheduled at St Johns and probably go for another pre-op and all the other bullsh*t again.
And it'll probably be another damned three weeks I have to friggin suffer with the pain.:grumpy:
I hate needles although I am used to them but getting poked six times today kind of had a tendency to aggraqvate me.:grumpy:
Hell no wonder they had a hard time finding a vein, I was no doubt dehydrated after not having anything to drink since 11:30 p.m. last night.
Oh well, guess it's for my own good. ;-)
(Insert "Happy Dance" smilie here.
Well as you can see here I am typing my first post today because the surgery didn't happen, came down to the wire though.
We got there shortly after 9:00 a.m. and the surgery was scheduled for noon sharp.
They poked and prodded, drew two different samples of blood for a Chem 8 and an HTH and after two tries finally got an IV started, third time is the charm on Halloween I guess.
After laying on the gurney from about 9:45 a.m. until 1:00 p.m., my surgeon was very late, the anesthesiologist started having the same concerns that I had, although I hadn't voiced mine to anyone except y'all here, and said, "that with the heart conditions and issues I have that he just wasn't willing to risk putting me under anesthetic where he didn't have access to an ICU and extreme care and emergency cardiologists for back up just in case I went flat line on them."
I guess my old ticker is in worse shape than I even thought.
He talked with Dr. Gaede my neurosurgeon and he agreed.
Now why in the hell couldn't they have figured this out the first time?
Now I have to start all over again, get the surgery rescheduled at St Johns and probably go for another pre-op and all the other bullsh*t again.
And it'll probably be another damned three weeks I have to friggin suffer with the pain.:grumpy:
I hate needles although I am used to them but getting poked six times today kind of had a tendency to aggraqvate me.:grumpy:
Hell no wonder they had a hard time finding a vein, I was no doubt dehydrated after not having anything to drink since 11:30 p.m. last night.
Oh well, guess it's for my own good. ;-)
