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Post by jean on Apr 12, 2011 8:48:03 GMT
I've started a new thread,though the old one does seem to have unravelled a bit. It is the idea of operating without a general anaesthetic that bothers me a bit... I'm not sure what I'd go for: epidural or full general anaesthetic. I don't like the thought of being completely out of it. On the other hand, I might panic mid-op and someone might have to sock me in the jaw to knock me out (or was that a John Wayne film?). Anyhow, a bit of a dilemma. You have to remember that general anaesthetics are quite dangerous and take a long time to recover from, that's if you wake up at all. And with an epidural (I'm told) they pump you full of stuff that makes you feel you don't care what happens. My sister thoroughly enjoyed every minute of her hip replacement. Another dilemma, though it's too late to change my mind about it now: I've been outsourced to the private sector. Should I have refused to be complicit in the privatisation of the NHS? More important, perhaps: should I trust that the hospital I'm going to, now (oddly) called Spire, has changed significantly from the time when it was called Lourdes and was run by nuns who told me when I had my tonsils out there sixty years ago that if I wet the bed I would never see my mother again? |
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Post by aubrey on Apr 12, 2011 9:45:36 GMT
Those nuns are all heart, aren't they?
I felt a bit like that when I went to a private hospital for dialysis, but it's hard to keep it up. Most of the people working there had worked in the NHS and would probably go back there (one did whuile I was there, and I still see her about Guy's even now). And they had "a tea machine, just along the corridor." (Moon in June, Soft Machine.)
So, the funding is different, or at least where the funding goes to, and that is a big thing; but the people are often the same.
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Post by jean on Apr 12, 2011 10:06:51 GMT
The only difference I've noticed so far when I've been to outpatient appointments is that they give you newspapers to read while you're waiting.
Only the Daily Mail and the Daily Express, though.
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Post by aubrey on Apr 12, 2011 20:13:16 GMT
The sandwiches are better.
The tea is good, but the tea I got (get) at the NHS place in Barnsley is as good a cup of tea as I've ever had. Lovely stuff. (The tea at Guy's is industrial.)
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Post by everso on Apr 12, 2011 22:32:04 GMT
Jean, my second colonoscopy was outsourced to a private clinic. The first one I had was done under the NHS and was carried out without a sedative; the private clinic pumped me full of wonderful drugs and it was so much better (although, to tell the truth, the first one wasn't that bad). I just felt that I was treated better in the private clinic. I was left in a comfortable bed to recover - whereas under the NHS I was almost pushed out the door. To be fair, I suppose they could do that as I wasn't sedated (maybe that's why they didn't sedate me - they'd have had to keep me there afterwards for a few hours).
Anyhow, I'm sure it will be fine for you.
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Post by housesparrow on Apr 12, 2011 22:42:12 GMT
Private hospitals dn't take emergencies so there is (or shuld be) virtually no risk of a superbug. Go with a clear conscience.
Shut me up if I've already told you this, but a friend was taking part in a walking half-marathon and got overtaken by an 80 year old celebrating her new hip. If she can do it you can!
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Apr 14, 2011 13:33:11 GMT
Jean, I have a back history of drug taking in my more youthful years, and let me tell you that it's not often that people will give you them for free...especially high quality ones, so chug down as much as they are willing to give you, baby! ;D (Good luck though. I'm sure that it will all go swimmingly).  AH |
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Post by everso on Apr 14, 2011 15:40:00 GMT
 Absolutely! I loved the fact that I felt so high when they did my colonoscopy that I'd have had it done in the Albert Hall with a full audience watching, and I wouldn't have cared a jot!
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Post by housesparrow on May 3, 2011 17:03:39 GMT
Jean, have you had the op. yet - if so, how did it go?
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Post by jean on May 5, 2011 16:17:48 GMT
Not yet - it's tomorrow.
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Post by everso on May 5, 2011 17:37:31 GMT
Good luck Jean. I'll be thinking of you. Get drugs. Get high. |
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on May 5, 2011 19:58:51 GMT
Break a leg. Um, wait, no, don't break anything, hope all goes well and you are back with us soon.  AH |
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Post by jean on May 5, 2011 20:51:12 GMT
Thanks everyone.
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on May 5, 2011 22:06:49 GMT
Better...Stronger...Faster.   AH |
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Post by everso on May 5, 2011 23:50:14 GMT
She'll be dancing on table tops before we know it.
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Post by Weyland on May 6, 2011 9:14:27 GMT
She'll be dancing on table tops before we know it. Glasgow's in for a treat! (I still have the Lambeth negatives.) [Whoops — crossed threads.] |
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Post by Weyland on May 6, 2011 9:25:13 GMT
Just in from Jean on the text contraption . . .
The Greens won where she lives, and she's still waiting for the op. (I assume she's actually in the infirmary now.)
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Post by Weyland on May 8, 2011 9:46:05 GMT
Just in from Jean on the text contraption . . . I just asked her holiness how it's going . . . " I'm fine — tell aubs the morphine was very disappointing — it just made me sick." |
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Post by aubrey on May 8, 2011 18:35:33 GMT
What a chiz.
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Post by everso on May 8, 2011 18:45:02 GMT
Bummer  I'd sue, frankly. |
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It is the idea of operating without a general anaesthetic that bothers me a bit... 
I'm not sure what I'd go for: epidural or full general anaesthetic. I don't like the thought of being completely out of it. On the other hand, I might panic mid-op and someone might have to sock me in the jaw to knock me out (or was that a John Wayne film?). Anyhow, a bit of a dilemma.
