Surgery was canceled!

[Amey]

I'm headed home. And yes I'm more pissed than a wet hornet! I had 2 IVs in, blood drawn and had the anesthesia guy already in to give me the run down. Then Dr Medvetz came in and told me she was cancelling it because I take ESTRADIAL for HRT. WTF?!? Nobody has ever told me this!! She said it causes a blood clot risk and I have to be off it for a whole month. So I won't even get my original date on the 20th. She apologized profusely that she missed it in my file. I'm so tired of getting my hopes up for nothing!!

 

[Susan in Tennessee]

Oh, no! I'm so sorry, Amey. What a letdown. If that is true, I'm certainly glad she caught it!

 

[Bagaof4]

Oh noooo!!! How frustrating. I am so sorry!

 

[Spiky Bugger]

Frustrating, but glad they will take all necessary precautions.

 

[-Flo-]

I'm so sorry. To get that close and have it taken away, is awful!

 

[Marquis Mark]

It's good that the doctor cares enough about your health to tell you at that late stage which must have been really embarrassing and difficult to do. And, it must be amazingly frustrating (and rightly so) for you to be brought to the starting gate and cancelled on like that. The doctor is professional enough to admit an oversight and unprofessional for not catching it in the first place. Tough one all around.

BUT, you will get your surgery. And you will be safer when you get it. That's the good news.

Try not to kill anyone. Prison sucks (I hear).

 

[Kate]

I am so sorry that this didn't work out the way that you had hoped.

 

[k9ophile]

Yes, it sucks. Telling you that it's for the best sounds like a cliché. But it is. I've seen too many disasters in my career in the health field. I'm pleased beyond measure that your doctor did not put ego before patient.

 

[Larra]

Nooooo!

But if anyone can get through this, it's you. At least there's a good reason for this delay, not the crap denials you had to deal with. Hang in there, it's going to happen.

 

[bearmom]

Huh?? I was on birth control pills at the time of my surgery, which are also just estrogen and sometimes progesterone, and it wasn't an issue.

I guess better safe than sorry, but I'd be pissed too.

 

[Amey]

Exactly! I have never had an issue with estrogen for any other surgery I have had.... Not my lap band or it's removal... That this surgeon did. Granted... This morning was a last minute thing but I feel like she should have gone over my file before they called me and she should have said something in my consultation back in October. I'm trying to tell myself that is better to find out now than on the 20th and have to wait another month from then....and do 2 pre-op diets. In her defense she was very apologetic and said she felt like an ass but that she wouldn't be able to live with herself if she did the surgery and I wound up with blood clots in my lungs. And... It screwed her too. I would have been the final surgery for her to be DS credentialed. Now Dr Bonani will have to fly out again if the board doesn't certify her on Tuesday. Honestly.... I felt better knowing he would be there but her putting my well being before her own career ladder makes me feel better.... But I'm still pissed.

 

[DSRIGGS]

I am sorry for the delay as I know ow how frustrated you so rightfully are, but you will get this done soon and the memories will fade. It took me a year after I decided to do this surgery before it actually got approved and happened. Honestly now that I look back it seems like nothing but line you I was frustrated as hell waiting.
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Hang in there. You will be on the darkside soon

 

[CaraOC]

I too am on estradiol and had my surgery in February. No clots. Didn't die. Some docs are less concerned. Dr Esquerra was fine with it.

 

[DianaCox]

I'm sure if she had felt it was OK, she would have gone through with it - she had every motivation to do so. However, I would be concerned that her preop instructions didn't include detailed lists of things that needed to be stopped ahead of surgery - IIRC, mine included certain vitamins, herbal supplements, OTC meds, statins, BCP/HRT, and probably a few others. Better safe than sorry.

 

[newanatomy]

Sorry, how frustrating!