Out of Jail

Well its two days since being discharged from a week in hospital.  Back and forth twice between Guelph General and Hamilton General.  On the last run, 3 days ago, I had the kyphoplasty done.  The anxiety and stress in getting there was much worse than going through the process.  Hospitalized a week before for extreme pain in my right leg plus weakness.  Had to call Owen to get me to emerg.  Then a consult in Hamilton with surgeons who had a different story about what was needed - kyphoplasty to include debulking which I really didn't understand and told them so.  Not an emergency they said so they'd pass their information onto Dr.Drew for Tuesday's surgery.  But of course they couldn't answer me on whether he'd be changing his surgical plan because of this new information.  aka more anxiety not knowing what I was in for.

Logic set in and I suspected it would still only be a kyphoplasty but I still wanted that confirmed.  The surgeon however was not available for discussion with my admitting physician.  Finally on Tuesday, just before surgery he popped in to say he'd be operating shortly doing the kyphoplasty and biopsy.  When I asked him if he'd seen the consulting surgeon's report he looked bewildered.  I asked him if he had seen the MRI taken the previous Friday.  He asked where it had been taken.  So working from surgical plan based on old information.

I am walking better and feeling less pain.  Could almost say its gone at times. Maybe all I needed was a kyphoplasty, but really, why did I need to go through things that made really no difference to a surgeon, who to me was too much of a hotshot and not thinking he should look first at what others had to say.