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Re: well that's a bummer 

By: Decomposed in 6TH POPE | Recommend this post (1)
Wed, 12 Jan 22 5:35 PM | 31 view(s)
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Re: “If I can sleep and manage the pain then there isn;t any reason to stay at the hospital.”I strongly disagree. You could have a stroke. You could have a heart attack. You could have a drainage tube come out, or internal bleeding. There are all kinds of reasons to have surgery done at the hospital and to stay at least two days. (I'd have advised you not to let them rush you outa there since they're usually inclined to discharge patients earlier rather than later.) Just ask OCU. (Oh, that's right. He's hiding from us.) His surgery was less invasive, not open heart, yet he almost died when he was in the bathroom at the hospital. If he hadn't been in the hospital, hooked up to a monitor, that would have been the end of him.

Here's a question I've used with doctors before. Ask them, "If it were your mother or father, what would you advise them to do?"
That'll make it real for them. If they say they'd recommend doing the surgery on an outpatient basis, then you'll know that the surgery is really not that big of a deal. If they pause or don't want to answer, then you'll know that it is.

You're a big boy. You can make your own decisions. But I really don't understand why you'd have something as serious as hip replacement done on an outpatient basis. I wouldn't agree to that.







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well that's a bummer
By: micro in 6TH POPE
Wed, 12 Jan 22 4:59 PM 		Msg. 28516 of 60008

I just received a call from my orthopedic doctor's office. Seems as if the Hospital where the surgery is schedules has informed them that any and all surgeries from now until a couple of weeks go by they will not be accepting any patients for overnight or longer stays. All has to be outpatient only regardless.

That kind of eliminates the main reason for having it done there, the "just in case" scenario. So that sucks..

So, we discussed what the plans could be including delaying and waiting to see what the Hospital's position will be in two weeks.
Then I reasoned out the main reason staying oafter surgery might have been in irder. Pain control and nursing care.

So we then talked about pain control. The PA agreed that they will need to send me home with some strong pain meds to help control that aspect. If I can sleep and manage the pain then there isn;t any reason to stay at the hospital.. So the surgeon's assistants agreed to give me strong pain meds to bring home and we will do the surgery same day as scheduled but as an outpatient only.

Kind of takes away one's safety net but I do not want to postpone this any longer. I already put it off for two months.

So, a little disappointing news but at least we all understand that to simply provide strong enough pain control is all that needs to happen..

Bummer.....


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