I’m so glad you’ve got a great orthopod that you trust and who really cares for you. That’s so important! I learned the importance of trust and connection when .45MAN required several specialists before he passed.
The thing that got me about dad (two things, actually) was that the first stent procedure had to be postponed because he was nauseous...he is diabetic and hadn’t had food for nearly 24 hours before they finally took him to surgery (several hours late). The first cardio said “He got himself worked up.” When I reminded him it might be because he hadn’t eaten all day, the response was, “Neither have I.” I should have fired him then.
The last straw was when dad was swelling post-op and having difficulty breathing and no one would listen to me when I told them it wasn’t “normal.” He finally had 2 code indigoes called on him and ended up in ICU for the night. That’s when “doctor” “Neither have I” was fired.
All the best to you and your family, Grampa Dave.
“The thing that got me about dad (two things, actually) was that the first stent procedure had to be postponed because he was nauseous...he is diabetic and hadn’t had food for nearly 24 hours before they finally took him to surgery (several hours late). The first cardio said “He got himself worked up.” When I reminded him it might be because he hadn’t eaten all day, the response was, “Neither have I.” I should have fired him then.”
The lack of food, nutrition and liquids by mouth, pre op are great for the gas passers and the surgeons doing the procedures. That can cause a lot of serious problems for the patients post op, and the nurses and doctors tending to the post op patients.
A couple of decades, I attended a pre op, operation and post op seminar at a teaching hospital. I thought the pre op and op MDS might get assaulted by those who had to tend to the patients post op.
One of the post op Mds said, “You starve/dehydrate your patients, hit them with toxic drugs to put them out, drug them afterwards and leave us with the abused patients in recovery, icu or a general post op floor.”
It still isn’t any better.