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Life has changed for me a lot now that I have been on this side of the bedpan!
Good luck and God bless!
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Cathy
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Good luck and God bless you!
Let me know how everything turns out?
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Since I had to have so many surgeries because of the cut ureter tube, I am still having a lot of problems. I cannot sleep, have to take vitamin B-12 shots, 50,000 units of vitamin D every 2 weeks, slow release iron pills, and have had my thyroid medication increased 3 different times. I am still not able to go to work, due to how I am feeling and not being able to sleep. My family doctor is trying to find out what is going on with me. I do have chronic fatigue but she isn't sure why I am having all the vitamin and thyroid problems. I am 52 years old and sure hope I never have to go through anything like this again. This whole process started with a hysterectomy and ended up in a total nightmare. I have been dealing with all of this since Dec. 16, 2009. :x
Good luck and God bless you!
Let me know how everything turns out, praying for you!Quote:
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Now my question is iwhen can i start exercise like yoga, brisk walking etc. Foley and stent were removed on december 20th 2010. I still have pain and discomfort while passing urine. Any suggestion please!
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Now my question is iwhen can i start exercise like yoga, brisk walking etc. Foley and stent were removed on december 20th 2010. I still have pain and discomfort while passing urine. Any suggestion please!
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I went in for two CT scans and they determined that my ureter had been cut/knicked during my hysterectomy.
I was immediately transferred to another hospital and they put the naphrostomy bag in place. I left the hospital 3 days later with surgery to repair the cut the following Tuesday (got to have a weekend without being wakened at HORRIBLE hours to ask me if my pain level!! Really...is it necessary to wake up a patient from a dead sleep to ask that question???
Anyway...I am so scared to go through this next phase to correct the first surgeons screw up.
What recourse do I have for malpractice?
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DEAR BUT CINDY, MY NAME IS RENEE IN 2006 I HAD TVH WITH A BLADDER SLING YOUR STORY IS ALMOST CARBON COPY OF YOURS, I WOULD LOVE TO SHARE THE MOST SRESSFUL,PAINFUL BOTH EMOTIONALLY AND PHYSICALLY FOR MYSELF AND MY FAMILY. I WILL TELL YOU MY STORY WITH THE GREATEST EMPATHY AND UNDERSTANDING. I WAS 39 MARRIED WITH 3 DAUGHTERS WORKING AS A RN IN ICU, I WOKE UP ONE MORNING WITH LOCALIZED UTERUS PAIN AFTER DIAGNOSTIC TESTS COMPLETED I WAS DIAGNOSISED WITH ADENOMYOSIS FORM OF ENDOMETROSIS ONLY EFFECTS UTERUS WALL. MY GYNE TOLD MY NO CURE OR TREATMENT THATI WOULD EVENTUALLY NEED A HYSTERECTOMY, OF COURSE WORKING IN ICU 12 HR SHIFTS A FAMILY MY SYMPTOMS WERE DURING MY MENSES, IT STARTED TO PROGESSIVLEY GET WORSE, PAIN HEAVEY BLEEDING SO I SEEN MY GYNE SCHEDULED MY TVH FEB 13TH 2006 0730 IMMEDIATELY HAD SEVERE PAIN SPENT 2 EXTRA HOUR IN RECOVERY, RETURNED TO MY ROOM PAIN INCREASED, VOMITING MY JELLO BY 5PM, KNEES TO MY CHIN AND UNABLE TO STAND, AS A CRITICAL CARE RN I KNEW THIS ISNOT NORMAL, STAYED EXTRA DAY INCREASE DILAUDID DID POST VOID(AFTER URINATING) BLADDER SCAN SHOWING HIGH LEVELS OF RINE 1000CC 1200CC ANDWENT HOME WITH A FOLEY. MY PAIN CONTINUED DEFUSE ON RIGHT SIDE, FOLEY REMOVED AT DR OFFICE, REPORTED INCREASE PAIN, TOLD URINARY RETENTENTION, TOLD ME TO GO TO ER IF I NEEDED TO; HOME FOLEY OUT PAIN INCREASING I GO TO ER ADMITTED WITH PCA FOR PAIN, NO CT OF ABDOMEN 8 DAYS POST OP SCHOCKING DISCHARGED NEXT DAY AT NOON, BUT SORRY LET ME GO BACK WHEN IN THE ER FOLEY PLACED WITH SUCH SEVERE PAIN I NEEDED 2 MG OF DILAUDID, FOLEY INSERTION NO PLEASANT BUT NOT SEVERE PAIN, AGAIN DISCHARGED NEXT DAY A NOON NO TEST JUST TOLD RETAINNIG URINE AND TO MY DISBELIEF ONE OFGYNE COVERING HAD THE NERVE TO TELL ME THEY MADE ME A DRUG ADDICT FROM PAIN MEDS AFTER SURGERY, ADDICTION DOES'NT HAPPEN WITH TRUE PAIN,I CONTINUED WITH SEVERE RIGHT SIDE PAIN UNBEARABLE, RN CALLING DR HE STATES I CANSTAY BUT MY INSURANCE MY NOT COVER, I AM A RN AT THE SISTER HOSPITAL OF COURSE THEY WILL PAY, MY MOTHER IN THE HALL OVER HEARD DISCHARGE RN STATE ROOM 2021 CANT STAY FOR STOMACH PAIN, AGAIN NO CT. THE DR. TOLD NURSING STAFF I WAS DRUG SEEKING NO HISTORY OF DRUG ABUSE FINALLY DOUBLED IN PAIN DISCHARGED HOME 7PM AWOKE AT 3AM PAIN SO SEVERE UNABLE TO WALK SIT CALL GYN ON CALL SENDS ME TO ER FOR CT SCAN FINALLY DIAGNOSISED WITH RIGHT URETER INJURY STENT PLACED, HEAL IN 6 WEEKS, HAD MUCH RELIEF BUT ICOULD STILL FEEL PAIN IN MY PELVIS CT DONE WITH CONTRAST I HAD INNOCULATED FLIUD SO PELVIS DRAIN PLACED THREW LOWER BACK DRAINED APPX 600CC-1000. NEXT DAY I NOTICE ITS URINE COLOR UROLOGIST SENDS TO LAB TO SEE IF URINE OR NOT, YES IS URINE PUTTING 100CC A SHIFT FOR A WEEK PELVIS AREA SO SATURATED WITH URINE NEPHROSTOMY DRAIN PLACED INTO RIGHT KIDNEY TO A BAG TO BY PASS URETER. NOW 14 DAYS IN HOSPITAL HOME WITH TWO DRAINS VISITING NURSE,BOTH DRAINS UNTIL MAY25TH THEN NEPHROSTOMY TUBE CLAMPED STENT REMOVED, I HAD MULTIPLY STENTS THREW OUT THIS ORDEAL, SO PLAN TO URINATE ON MY OWN BECAUSE MY 25% CHANCE TOHEAL IT DID TOLD TO REPEAT CT IN 30 DAYS;;IT HEALED BUT SCAR TISSUE STICTURED OF MY URETER SO URINE BACKING UP INTO KIDNEY I N0W I HAVE HYDRONEPHORSIS OF THE KIDNEY(ENLARGED) II WAS TOLD IF I DIDNT HAVE MY RIGHT URETER RE-IMPLANTED I WOULD LOOSE SO JULY 7TH 2006 8 INCH INCESSION CUT INJURED PART OFF AND ALSO LIKE YOURSELF PLACED ON TOP OF BLLADDER. I WAS IN HEIGHT OF MY CAREER TAKING A NEW POSITION I HAD LONG TERM SHORT TERM WHICH THEY FOUND 0NE CLAIMER IN POLICY TO CUT ME OFF, AFTER 2 YEARS OFF THE BOOKS AT HOSPITAL I WORKED, PAD COBRA 480 A MONTH, CONSTANT PAIN, IN AND OUT OF ER FINALLY ON PAIN REGIMEN, MULTIPLY NERVE BLOCK,BLADDER INFECTIONS. LOSST JOB, BECAME CLINICALLY DEPRESSED WITH POST TRAMATIC SYNDROME, CLAIMED BANKRUPTANCY, TOOK 3 YEARS TO GET SS DISABILITY. I KNOW THE TOLL IT TOOK ON YOU AND YOUR FAMILY. ONE ADVICE TO U I FILED I JUST SETTELED OUT OF COURT, DIDNT GET WHAT I THINK I SHOULD NO PAY LOSS ETC... BUT PLEASE DONT DO WHAT I DID TRANSFER ANY FURTHER TREATMENT OUT OF THE MEDICAL SYSTEM WHERE IT HAPPENED THEY STONE WALL AND DO THIER BEST TO HELP THIER COLLEAGE, CRAZY I WAS A COLLEAGE, GET A NONBASIS OPINION AT ANOTHER HOSPITAL PLEASE I REGRET APPLY FOR SS DISABILITY THEY BACK PAY FROM DAY YOU APPLY I USED ALLSUP THEY WERE GREAT THE DID EVERYTHING INCLUDING ATTORNEY AT HEARING WITH JUDGE NO MONEY UP FRONT THEY TAKE A FEE BASED ON BACK PAY SO IF YOU FILE FEB 8 2008 IT SETTLES N0V 12 2011 YOUR GET PAID ALL THOSE MONTHS; ON A POSITIVE NOTE GOT A LUMP SUM OF 25K REMEMBERYOU HAVE 2 YEARS FROM SURGICAL DATE TO FILE...GOOD LUCK IF YOU WOULD LOVE TO TALK I LIVE IN SPRING GROVE IL ON THE CHAIN OF LAKES MY NAME RENEE SCHECK CELL # 847-902-4524. ITS NICE TO NOT FEEL ALONE IT WAS SO LIFE CHANGING FOR ME; WOULD BE NICE TO TALK WITH SOMEONE WHO UNDERSTANDS AND WENT THREW IT AS WELL, THANKS BEST WISHES THIS NEW YEAR, HOPE TO HEAR FROM YOU CINDY BY THE WAY THIS IS MY HUSBAND DAVID SCHECK, EMAIL AND COMPUTER I'AM USING. TAKE CARE ANY ????PLEASE CALL
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I'm glad I found this forum.I had a robotic hysterectomy on Dec 7 .the doctor broke my ureter tube,they tried to repair it while I was under..o woke up in severe pain and what looked like a pole bulging out ny side.I screamed in pain for 2, days till finally they have a cat scan and found that blood and urine was filling up in my abdomen so I had a emergency surgery by a second urologist on which I had a 5 inch incision. I stayed in hospital 2 weeks and kept stent in till Jan .13 after removal I experienced nausea and severe pain I went to er last Wednesday and they kept me sue to kidney infection,ureter tube blockage and swollen kidney ,I stayed for 4 days they now put 2 stents in my left ureter. It's been 3 days and now the pain is even worse so I'm waiting on a call from my doctor to see what i should do. Good thing is u found a lawyer who wants to take my case bad thing is I don't want to go through this forever it us ruining my life.I can't work because of daily pain. And question for Renee,do you think I can apply for SSI too or was ur claim due to more than one reason.I am only on short term disability with the job,I'm thinking about applying for long term.
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