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How different procedures can be!

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Sharron

Sharron Report 29 May 2021 12:24

It only seems like yesterday that Fred was having to have a bowl in bed to vomit in at night because he was worried about a bit of surgery to remove some dodgy looking skin from his belly. That was palaver enough but for me, not him. Booking transport and escort transport twice because the hospital had not thought to have a hoist available to get him on the operating table.

Then he had his cataract operation which entailed a procedure upon his lower lid first which I had to talk him through and after which he came home in love with the black South African nurse who had held his hand through the operation.

The one I told to bugger off and slammed the phone down on when she rang up the next day to inquire of how he was because I thought it was a nuisance call. It seems I was not the first!

Well, now I have a date for my own cataract removal but that is a very different affair.

Fred's was a very simple, routine procedure carried on many times every day and nothing at all to worry about. You only needed to ask me and I would have re-assured you.

My own, however, is a very traumatic and stressful event involving a big circular saw, branding irons, probably a long stay in an iron lung and who knows which orifice they might use for access.

That is now and I still have six weeks in which to put the wind up myself big-time!

nameslessone

nameslessone Report 29 May 2021 12:32

Do Genes do a laughing with sympathy emoji?

AnninGlos

AnninGlos Report 29 May 2021 12:41

Always the worry, the imagining and total hissy fits are worse than the actual procedures. Just come on here for sympathy sharron. You may get it!! :-( <3

Sharron

Sharron Report 29 May 2021 12:46

Thanks Ann.

I tell myself it is only a bloody cataract, just like I told Fred!

You have to always give yourself the worst case scenario though don't you?

maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 29 May 2021 12:48

Just think how much experience they've had, since Fred had his op!

Muuuuch better now! :-D :-D :-D

Sharron

Sharron Report 29 May 2021 13:03

The equipment might be worn out!

maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 29 May 2021 13:05

It may have worn out, but they'll have made even better, finer equipment since then!

...and sold the old stuff to a veterinary practice! :-D

Sharron

Sharron Report 29 May 2021 13:13

Or it could be the other way around and they have bought some old stuff from a vetinry practice.

maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 29 May 2021 13:59

Nope! I know King Edward VII hospital sold off it's old x-ray machine to a local vet - who than proceeded to charge more to x-ray an animal than the hospital had charged to x-ray a human!

How do I know? My sister worked at King Edward VII, until it closed.
A year or so later, her dog, Stanley needed an x-ray, and she recognised the machine.

nameslessone

nameslessone Report 29 May 2021 14:04

I am now getting really worried about how my hospital will solve the problem with my foot (not bunions!)

Hop along Nameslessone ;-)

Sharron

Sharron Report 29 May 2021 14:07

I won't see you!

nameslessone

nameslessone Report 29 May 2021 14:11

But you might hear me ;-)

Sharron

Sharron Report 29 May 2021 14:31

It depends how the operation goes. I may come out of it with no ears.

You just can't tell. But, by the cringe, you can't half imagine.

Will you have both legs? Or even a lower half at all?

nameslessone

nameslessone Report 29 May 2021 14:43

I think it all depends on whether they’ve managed to borrow the big circular saw ;-)

Sharron

Sharron Report 29 May 2021 15:24

That's true.

How worried would we be if we didn't fully understand surgical procedure?

They don't have the bacon slice in the Co-Op to fall back on now do they? I don't suppose they have anybody working there who is clever enough to operate one.

maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 29 May 2021 15:40

Eeeh - what a cheerful pair! :-S

Those bacon slicers,looked lethal, though, didn't they?
I haven't seen one for years.

Sharron

Sharron Report 29 May 2021 15:48

We ae comforting each other,Maggie.

nameslessone

nameslessone Report 29 May 2021 15:52

:-D :-D

Bobtanian

Bobtanian Report 29 May 2021 16:10

talking of losing legs............spare a thought for the poor guy that had the wrong one amputated....

Sharron

Sharron Report 29 May 2021 16:19

It wasn't that bad. It was his mother-in-laws.