A few of you have asked for my thoughts on forthcoming surgery (and no, I’ve not got a date yet, but will post it here as soon as I do!) First of all, I will speak from my own point of view, as the prospective patient. I don’t fear death (for some reason). I don’t fear pain. I’ve recently been a bit more squeamish, but that comes and goes (hormones, probably). From what all the post-ops have told me, “it doesn’t hurt”. The main thing they seem to be upset about is the disruption to their life for a few weeks and months, especially being in hospital for nine days. Everyone (including the one person who doesn’t like the techniques used) likes the work they’ve ended up with. Scour some of the blogs and journals, and you can see very quickly a very high satisfaction rate. Some have had some of the best sexual experiences of their lives, before they even get back to work! Please remember YMMV – your mileage may vary – but if the majority are happy, I think I have little to fear. I’ve witnessed first hand how well zoeimogen and reiko_j have been looked after in the hospital, and I don’t think there will be any problems there either.
I can certainly say that the quality of care in the hospital is excellent - after the first night, which is going to be pretty shit after any surgery, I was never in any pain for more than a second or two. (I'm sure there was some pain at some point when I was prodded or something, although I can't remember specifics - most of the time even being prodded didn't hurt, it was just weird)
I did have some trouble that I didn't talk about much on LJ (Hence the phone call from Liz while you were there) but once you're on the bed and you know you've got the nurses constantly checking, with Mr.Thomas himself just a phone call away, I found it hard to really get bothered by it.
Afterwards it's just frustrating. You want to get back into life etc, but your body won't let you.
As for the result... well, I don't know for sure that all the wiring works as intended yet but certainly no complaints whatsoever so far! :-)
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Date: 2007-05-07 09:18 pm (UTC)I can certainly say that the quality of care in the hospital is excellent - after the first night, which is going to be pretty shit after any surgery, I was never in any pain for more than a second or two. (I'm sure there was some pain at some point when I was prodded or something, although I can't remember specifics - most of the time even being prodded didn't hurt, it was just weird)
I did have some trouble that I didn't talk about much on LJ (Hence the phone call from Liz while you were there) but once you're on the bed and you know you've got the nurses constantly checking, with Mr.Thomas himself just a phone call away, I found it hard to really get bothered by it.
Afterwards it's just frustrating. You want to get back into life etc, but your body won't let you.
As for the result... well, I don't know for sure that all the wiring works as intended yet but certainly no complaints whatsoever so far! :-)