Ah see I live in a suburban area and will go anywhere in my region for healthcare, so I've never had to wait more than about 6-8 weeks for most specialists. And got surgery pretty promptly too. But that's probably more of a function of having good health insurance (which I'm at the mercy of my employer for). They know mine will pay so they get me in fast to get their money. A wonderful system!
This was with MassGeneral and Brigham & Women's in Boston with good insurance. At the time, it was a 4 hour drive to get there for me. I forgot about another instance where I hurt my leg, waited a month or so to see a doctor and she could only look at my knee because as per insurance that's all she could look at. I would need a separate appointment for her to look at each joint. The PT she prescribed didn't help so I didn't bother with more. Eventually I figured out the issue is actually in my foot, ankle & lower leg. Dealing with this via insurance would've meant 4 separate appointments. The irony is, when I was a kid it was a lot easier to get in to see specialists. The ortho issue I could've seen a specialist within a week. Likewise with surgeries being easier too. If I hurt my knee the doc would look at my ankle & foot too. At the time I lived in the NYC metro area. Yeah, wonderful system that its pay for play while complicated folks like myself basically have to figure things out on their own. I never thought I'd say "yeah I'm better off just figuring out how to treat myself" but that's the way things have gone.
I took another blood pressure reading today. I'm so stressed about it that it was elevated compared to my normal measurements, but it shouldn't be considered high, so I really hope that is enough for them to go on with scheduling my surgery.
Don't know where to put it so: I completed my 800,000 steps for Suicide Prevention Awareness for the month
And I got a phone call today, and my surgery will be on the 8th of November. Now that it is happening I am getting really scared, I know it's irrational but I have never had surgery and I've never been sedated and I don't look forward to it. I have talked to the anesthetist about it so that I can get some anti anxiety drugs for it.
I remember the first time I went under with a general anesthetic. A nurse was putting it into an IV and I asked her, "How long until that starts working?" She said, "It already is." I said, "Yeah, I think you're right," and I went to sleep a second later. Nothing to it. I hope it's that easy for you too, @Obi Anne.
Here's wishing for calm for you. I'm sure your anasthesiologist will do a good job, especially if they're already working with you. I've been put under who knows how many times now, at least 6? It has always been as Ben described for me too. The only person I know with ANY problems is my dad who gets a little nauseous after and needs a med for that, then it goes away. So I'm sure you'll be fine!
On a brighter note (even if the surgery is a positive thing) autumn is here properly and this morning was the first morning that I had to scrape the ice off my windscreen before going to work.
It's supposed to finally become Autumn here this week, when it will drop below 90 F for the first time in months... Hooray.
Sarge your account is old enough you should be an account grandpa by now. That's... Something. Congrats? Well I like having you here anyway.
Yesterday my mother was invited to attend the 60th anniversary of the library board at her student nation, and she was the oldest former board member present. She was also proud to point out the stone staircase in the nation house where she went bobsleighing down on a silver tray and ended up in the ER around 55 years ago. We were informed that this tradition is still going on, but they don't use silver trays anymore and they put cushions along the corner. Personally when seeing that staircase I am happy that I chose another student nation when I was a student.
