Hi All,
While you are all working on getting well, I am working on legal crap. In my next life I'm coming back as a medmal attorney. hehehehe! Am currently working to write up HIPPA amendments to my primary care doc's notes that I was "paranoid" "had Munchausesns," "hypochondria," and "psychiatric" in her notes during the time I was seeing 11 docs at 7 hospitals because my small and large intestines were both simply closed shut with scar tissue. Food unable to go through small and poop unable to go through large intestines. NOT SUCH A HARD CONCEPT TO GRASP, I FEEL LIKE WRITING "DUUUUUUUH!" But instead am doing the chronology with testing result attachments from docs I saw along the way which showed the effects of the scar tissue. 5 of her notes are actually libelous but I cannot be bothering adding that to the suit. I just need to finish my paperwork, file my forms, then go change my bag in the a.m.
One would think having to get a permanent bag (then being lucky if poop continued to pass into it) would be evidence enough, but oh, no, more paperwork for me. Anyway, am glad everyone is doing well. If I had had honest original docs that really did what for me that which really needed to be done (just repair of a rectocele per my medical review board), then I would likely have done fine. Or if things went awry and I did end up with a bag, then that would have just happened. BUT the misdiagnosis of the sigmoidocele that wasn't, surgeons removing my sigmoid and the top of my rectum for no disease or redundancy, then operating on and on, then leaving me to die, then the 13 month hunt for help, then all this paper work. This suit has got to fly. Tribunal is Dec. 11, then discovery, then hopefully settlement. Today I had a tuna fish sandwich, this was the most solid food I've had in years, I was terrified, but I chewed and chewed and drank lemonade with it. AND so far so good. Felt good to have protein in me. I have to keep the faith that things will keep working as they have for the past 2 years and that there is some obscure purpose to what I went through.
A nurse I know called me to ask who'd done this overkill surgery and I told her. She said "I though so." Her primary care doc had referred her to my original 2 surgeons. She had vaguely remembered my case. She then checked with a nurse who works at the very hospital that these 2 original surgeons operate at. That nurse said "God, stay away from those two." If nurses at that hospital are in the know and warning people away, and the 2 docs have the dozen suits behind them then mine, I maintain something should be done about
them on a system-wide basis. Local docs here in my town refer patients to them. The ones in the know stear clear, the ones not in the know (like me in 2006) fall for it. I am making head way with the state med board, they did not just toss my case but are seriously looking into it. I'm hoping I can have some positive effect and make things safe for other potential patients in western Mass so my experience won't have gone for nothing. But I'll tell you working on this is more work than my teaching job was. If I'm still OK after I travel a lot more, and I get my suit and my claim settled with the state and hopefully can get some disciplinary action on these 2 original docs, I may just return to work if I regain the stamina. It would be like a walk in the park compared to all this.
Anyway, glad you're all doing well. Keep up the good recovery Jen and NO HOUSEWORK
You had the benefit of honest docs, honestly doing what you really needed done, your best interest in their hearts. Cherish your good fortune and let your body heal. Am off my soapbox, back to my legal work. Rosemary