Oakies Hip Replacement cancelled

[MadchesterCity]

I don’t want to put a damper on it Oakie, but a friend of mine was cancelled (bowel op) like this for nearly three years. She now needs a follow up op and is going through the same motions. (No pun intended). Best not to be too optimistic till you’re actually in the theatre.

You must be fun at parties

 

[richardtheref]

My dad had that done on a local anaesthetic. A guard placed over his chest so he couldn’t see.

Fuck that. If I’m to ever have that done I want to be asleep.

I don't think that's an option. You have an epidural and then you feel nothing. The worst bit is putting the injection into your spine

 

[denislawsbackheel]

When I had my hip replaced in February I didn’t have a general anaesthetic but as far as I was concerned it might as well have been. From the epidural to coming round in recovery I was completely unaware
BUT
Apparently the anaesthetist talked to me throughout the procedure asking if I was ok, did I want to go further under etc and I responded to him. The consultant surgeon told me I had them in stitches because throughout the operation I was singing!

 

[LangleyBlue1970]

I don't think that's an option. You have an epidural and then you feel nothing. The worst bit is putting the injection into your spine

Ah yes, he had an epidural. He was fine within a couple of months and now, 3 years later you wouldn’t even notice. He was due his other one but my mum fell ill. Think he will just put up with that one now.

 

[Blue Mist]

Oakie, maybe it was cancelled because the guy who has your new hip made a good recovery and hasn't died yet.

Just sayin"

 

[kaz7]

I was due to have my left knee replaced the weekend of the cup final against utd (the 1st one). As I cancelled it I have still not been given a date for the op

You cancelled a big operation? Knowing how hard it is to get in, madness

 

[richardtheref]

You cancelled a big operation? Knowing how hard it is to get in, madness

Wasn't going to miss the cup final. After all I have put up with it 7 odd years. The previous time I got bumped to the front of the queue as the Dr assumed I was a full time ref and needed to be fit for work purposes. Some you win....

 

[Saddleworth2]

I'm trying to book a blood test at the hospital at the moment. The only way to do that is to ring them, and it's either engaged or they never answer. Took me a week of ringing last time. Why can't they just have an app?

It really lets them down. My wife was treated for breast cancer a couple of years back. The actual treatment she got was wonderful and the nursing staff top notch. What caused stress after stress was their inability to execute simple communication processes. Test results that had to be repeatedly chased. A Breast Cancer emergency line that wasn’t manned and appointment letters missed or mixed up. All stuff that should be fairly easy to fix with some proper process work.

 

[Blue Mist]

It really lets them down. My wife was treated for breast cancer a couple of years back. The actual treatment she got was wonderful and the nursing staff top notch. What caused stress after stress was their inability to execute simple communication processes. Test results that had to be repeatedly chased. A Breast Cancer emergency line that wasn’t manned and appointment letters missed or mixed up. All stuff that should be fairly easy to fix with some proper process work.

Whilst we are derailing Oakies thread.... I has to take my then, 89yr old mum to hospital. She had a letter but no directions to the department. Round and round we went, there were no signs within the hospital directing us and we had to resort to asking random nurses (who didn't know)
When we finally found it, the nurse showed us one of them boxes on the letter, to the initiated, a QR code. That apparently would have told us everything.
My mam doesn't have a mobile and I don't know how to do it. The nurse said she was fed up of telling management that it wasn't working and she blamed the new influx of University people who think everyone is 21yrs of age :-)
So they can have tech for some stuff but not for others.