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Hi everyone -- still alive?

 

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I’m glad that I’m not a girl. ?My wife had endometriosis which took years to diagnose. ?And I’m glad that I’m not planned to stay in hospital on Friday – unless they make a hash of the camera work ;-)

Chris

On 28 Sep 2021, at 04:23, Judith Hall <glenidol@...> wrote:

After I had op for endometrial cancer surgeon turned up at the bottom of the bed and asked if I remembered what he told me immediately after op and I parroted it back to him word for word, and he said oh you did remember. Then he said I had a bit of rummage about while I was in there had a look at your kidneys liver and intestines and a bit of a wander round the bowel. My first thought was nothing's private these days. Then I said ...And what did you find... which was basically nothing. You're in pretty good shape he said. Then he said lifting the cloche "You haven't eaten your dinner" -- and I know thats one of the criteria for escaping hospital. ?I said I have a policy not to eat anything I can't recognise. He lifted the cloche again and said "I think thats fish" and I responded with "Can you guarantee that!". God it was awful - white potatoes, white sauce, white fish. You could die in hospital with the catering :-)?
 

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Hahaha! Oh Jude, you do have them nailed down, don’t you? ?:D
Best
Susan


On 28 Sep 2021, at 04:23, Judith Hall <glenidol@...> wrote:

After I had op for endometrial cancer surgeon turned up at the bottom of the bed and asked if I remembered what he told me immediately after op and I parroted it back to him word for word, and he said oh you did remember. Then he said I had a bit of rummage about while I was in there had a look at your kidneys liver and intestines and a bit of a wander round the bowel. My first thought was nothing's private these days. Then I said ...And what did you find... which was basically nothing. You're in pretty good shape he said. Then he said lifting the cloche "You haven't eaten your dinner" -- and I know thats one of the criteria for escaping hospital. ?I said I have a policy not to eat anything I can't recognise. He lifted the cloche again and said "I think thats fish" and I responded with "Can you guarantee that!". God it was awful - white potatoes, white sauce, white fish. You could die in hospital with the catering :-)?


Jude
 

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As long as you have a good director, the camera work should be fine!

I’ve read some horror stories about endometriosis, especially when male medics just don’t believe their female patients or simply think women=pain=normality.
Best
Susan


On 29 Sep 2021, at 15:25, zuiko <ftog@...> wrote:

I’m glad that I’m not a girl. ?My wife had endometriosis which took years to diagnose. ?And I’m glad that I’m not planned to stay in hospital on Friday – unless they make a hash of the camera work ;-)

Chris

On 28 Sep 2021, at 04:23, Judith Hall <glenidol@...> wrote:

After I had op for endometrial cancer surgeon turned up at the bottom of the bed and asked if I remembered what he told me immediately after op and I parroted it back to him word for word, and he said oh you did remember. Then he said I had a bit of rummage about while I was in there had a look at your kidneys liver and intestines and a bit of a wander round the bowel. My first thought was nothing's private these days. Then I said ...And what did you find... which was basically nothing. You're in pretty good shape he said. Then he said lifting the cloche "You haven't eaten your dinner" -- and I know thats one of the criteria for escaping hospital. ?I said I have a policy not to eat anything I can't recognise. He lifted the cloche again and said "I think thats fish" and I responded with "Can you guarantee that!". God it was awful - white potatoes, white sauce, white fish. You could die in hospital with the catering :-)?
 

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The latest one is dead cocky — but then they have to have a bit of ego and self confidence or you wouldn’t want them operating on you now would you.
He did a good job and I’m here to talk about it. Funnily enough my GP asked me about my vascular surgeon (it was his recommendation) - he’d had complaints that he didn’t have bedside manner. ?I said well as far as I was concerned he was great. Saw me before the op, chatted to me prior to anaesthetic, saw me straight after in recovery, sneeked my husband into recovery to talk to me, came late at night into ICU to visit me and chat with the Professor who was looking after me through the night, came early next day to see me and visited me when they shifted me after 2 nights in ICU.
Hello — thats pretty decent attention I would say. ?But yes he is cocky :-). ?He did say to me I might last another five years and I burst out laughing and I told him where to get off.?

I see him again in November — ?might buy him a new tie - he’s fond of aboriginal designs and I’ve found a place that does pure silk ties with paintings on. ?Surgeons do like trophies :-)?

Jude



On 30 Sep 2021, at 11:20 pm, Purler <susan.platter@...> wrote:

Hahaha! Oh Jude, you do have them nailed down, don’t you? ?:D
Best
Susan


On 28 Sep 2021, at 04:23, Judith Hall <glenidol@...> wrote:

After I had op for endometrial cancer surgeon turned up at the bottom of the bed and asked if I remembered what he told me immediately after op and I parroted it back to him word for word, and he said oh you did remember. Then he said I had a bit of rummage about while I was in there had a look at your kidneys liver and intestines and a bit of a wander round the bowel. My first thought was nothing's private these days. Then I said ...And what did you find... which was basically nothing. You're in pretty good shape he said. Then he said lifting the cloche "You haven't eaten your dinner" -- and I know thats one of the criteria for escaping hospital. ?I said I have a policy not to eat anything I can't recognise. He lifted the cloche again and said "I think thats fish" and I responded with "Can you guarantee that!". God it was awful - white potatoes, white sauce, white fish. You could die in hospital with the catering :-)?


Jude
 

And.... waiting in suspense.... how did it go ? Did you enjoy the ride home ??


:-) ?Jude
 

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:-) ?If that’s for me Jude, it went fine, thanks. ?There was one tiny (2mm) polyp, easily removed, and the rest of my gut looked remarkably healthy. ?

The staff, all girls, were fantastic. ?I had three nurses in the procedure room, one of them wielding the camera and explaining what was happening on the screen. ?There was one period of discomfort, for which I sucked a bit of Entonox, but it wasn’t really pain and once I considered that all was going well I could ignore it. ?There was plenty of banter and medical-level jokery; if it weren’t for the purging that you have to do beforehand, and the 24 hours of no food, I’d be happy to do it every week.

I was in trouble with my wife because I walked out of the hospital (Dorchester) to find her, instead of waiting patiently at the entrance. ?I’m never good at patience. ?And I’m feeling a little woozy now.

But it means that I ought to consider a gastroscopy to check the top end. ?And I really don’t like them.

Cheers

Chris





On 2 Oct 2021, at 07:22, Judith Hall <glenidol@...> wrote:

And.... waiting in suspense.... how did it go ? Did you enjoy the ride home ??


:-) ?Jude
 

I remember the first time the Dr wrote a chitty for my husband for one of those -- I said you really don't want to do that and burst out laughing ? :-) ?But he's done it about three times now. Only once did they find a polyp.?
As I said they led him out of the hospital with someone holding on to him and I had parked the car about 20 yards from where he was brought out -- I got chided that I should have pulled up at the pavement bit. But it was a good drive home. He's the worst back seat driver with me driving --- but when we got home he said what a wonderful driver I was and I asked if that was the anaesthetic talking :-)

I remember once driving up from NSW -- we had a winner in a race at Lismore over the border. ?Just got over the border with an hour to go to home and he suddenly pulled off in the park in the dark and turned the key off. I said what are you doing and he said he was tired and needed to sleep. I was quite sparky I said I would drive and if he thought I was going to sit in a deserted park in the middle of the night he was mistaken --- so I drove home, and only when I pulled into our entry five bar farm gate he woke up arms flailing screaming " Stay on the Road....Stay on the Road ! " ?:-) :-)?


Jude

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