General Chat

Glad it's all done for now. Have been popping in to look for a posting from you post-op ;-)

Sylvia ...

The suspect thingie, he showed it to me last week (photo), it was a red & white blob. That's the one he put dye into (turned it grey), then removed it... the next photo was a pink blob.

I have to see my GP on Tuesday, maybe he can explain things to me a wee bit clearer (ordinary speak) than the specialist did.

Fed up going to doctors. I was supposed to see the orthopaedic surgeon last Thursday, but I cancelled the appointment (for obvious reasons), have a new appointment on 31st.

The weird thing is ........... I'm off my food! Not like me, I'm usually good with a nosebag. I don't even feel like chocolate! :-0

glad you're home, safe and sound x

Did he remove the "suspect" or just examine it more closely?

All done.

I am SO tired! And I have a terrible back ache... did they drop me off the table?

Doc showed me a photo of the suspect thingie, they put dye into it so that he could see it ( ? ), and a photo of it afterwards, all nice and pink.

I have to go back in six months for another one, and he thinks every two years after that.

In the waiting room I got another strange view of a man! He sat opposite me and crossed his legs "man style"..... one ankle over the other knee. Not a pretty sight.

I'm going back to bed!

LadyScozz.
I will be thinking about you and hope it is all over with quickly. Take care xx

the blurb from the clinic said it would be over by midnight

yeah right........ it wasn't last week, and it wasn't last night! Wore a path to the loo again, all night long.

Climbed on the scales this morning........ haven't been on them for two weeks, and I've lost 4kg! It's not because I've been full of **** it's because I haven't eaten much of my usual food! No yoghurt, grain bread, nuts, fruit (other than bananas)....... I'm starving!

Not sure what they're doing today....... resection of something, but I'm sure which end they're going from!

I hope your weekend is more fun than mine ;-)

It's hard not to :-)

Emma, I am trying not to think of her.. ;-)

Thinking of you x

taking the 2nd of 4 packets of the goop......

gawd, it's horrible, even with Gatorade added (I don't like Gatorade anyway!).

I'm not taking telephone calls for the rest of the day :-0

We wouldn't have to pay for either the treatment or the day service at the hospital as it was required by the specialist. It's covered by the provincial Health Scheme, which costs us about $120 a month (ca £50) in premiums ............. not even that if our income was below a certain level.

If treatment involved a stay in hospital, we do have to pay for the bed ........ I think it is something like free or $20/night in a 4 or 5 bed ward (our largest), $60 a night in a 2 bed ward, and $80 a night in a "private" ward (that also includes your own phone and TV set). No charges for anything else.

If you ask for a bed in the larger ward and then there is not a bed, the hospital will put you into either the 2 bed or private ward .... and you will not be charged anything as that was THEIR choice.

Our friend had part of her colon removed last year, chose the 4 bed ward for free, but ended up in a private room with a magnificent view of the mountains and harbour .... for nothing. The staff had decided that she needed the quiet of the private room.

We do have to buy the prep kits for colonoscopies.

Ann ~ we have private insurance, very expensive, but worth it. If we didn't have it we'd get stuck with the whole bill, or go on the government waiting list...... by the time you reach the top of the list, it's usually too late. We know many older people who have been waiting years for surgery (one man has been waiting over three years for a knee & hip operation).

and........... the preparation kits cost $25 each!

I hope the treatment you get reflects the amount you pay LScozz. We in UK should stop complaining about the NHS and be glad we don't get hit by bills like that.

Geez, these doctors don't mess about when it comes to money.

Last weeks' procedure cost us $250 for the hospital (if either of us go to hospital, that's the excess we pay each year, covered by private insurance). I won't have to pay another $250 this Friday.

I got a bill yesterday, didn't really look at it properly, until the 'phone rang about half an hour ago......... someone from the doctor's office, asking if I want to pay the account! Pay the account, for something that hasn't been done yet!

Last week's procedure didn't cost anything, all covered by the Government (except for the hospital cost), but this Friday isn't fully covered. How much? $1,319.20. The Government pay $351.90, and insurance pays $117.30. That leaves a gap of $850. Thank goodness I now have a pension card, because that reduced the cost to $600 out of pocket.

:-(

Sylvia IC....... yes, it's another day surgery. On Friday I was at the hospital for 4 +1/2 hours, I expect the next one will be about the same.

On Friday DH went shopping, to a big hardware store & also searched for a new coffee maker (hard to find these days, with all those silly pod machines around). Not sure what he'll do for hours next week, I suggested he goes to a movie :-)

Good luck with next week's procedure, Scozz, and glad you have a few days respite.

Lizxx

did he at least tell you whether it was day surgery again?

Sylvia ~ I'm not sure how next weeks procedure will be done. The doc said it wouldn't be quite the same as Friday's. I don't really want to know details, just do it!

Wondering if he could give me copies of the photographs, so that I can scar the **** out of people. :-D

LadyScozz
How are they doing the operation next week, is it similar to todays investigation. x

LadyScozz I am so glad you got through it ok x :-)
and I hope the 20th goes well too

Fingers crossed :-D