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"Cheryl Perkins" wrote in message
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Christina Websell wrote:

Ever had a smear test? I'm not sure if it's called that in the USA.
Cervix
scrape for suspect cancerous cells. Of course you haven't. Think
yourself
lucky for having a prostate test instead.

Pap test. Great invention, saved a lot of lives - and something I tend to
put off until the point I'm saying with that nervous giggle 'Well, I
thought it was about time I had one' and the doctor (or her receptionist,
if I'm making the appointment) points out in a carefully neutral voice
that it HAS been X years since the last one.

They have an unfair advantage on the date, since they have my chart and
know exactly when the next one is due. During one period of my life, it
seemed to me my doctor was scheduling one on each of the (quite rare)
occasions I visited her, just as though it was 'Oh, that's Cheryl, better
test her while she's around.'

And, ummmm, it is not really a good idea to have one in a teaching
hospital since there's a good chance that the person you just agreed to
have perform it has a lot less experience giving them than your own
middle-aged GP has had.

One positive thing about my hyster is that I will never have to have one
again!!

Tweed

"Christina Websell" wrote in message
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"Cheryl Perkins" wrote in message
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Christina Websell wrote:

Ever had a smear test? I'm not sure if it's called that in the USA.
Cervix
scrape for suspect cancerous cells. Of course you haven't. Think
yourself
lucky for having a prostate test instead.

Pap test. Great invention, saved a lot of lives - and something I tend to
put off until the point I'm saying with that nervous giggle 'Well, I
thought it was about time I had one' and the doctor (or her receptionist,
if I'm making the appointment) points out in a carefully neutral voice
that it HAS been X years since the last one.

They have an unfair advantage on the date, since they have my chart and
know exactly when the next one is due. During one period of my life, it
seemed to me my doctor was scheduling one on each of the (quite rare)
occasions I visited her, just as though it was 'Oh, that's Cheryl, better
test her while she's around.'

And, ummmm, it is not really a good idea to have one in a teaching
hospital since there's a good chance that the person you just agreed to
have perform it has a lot less experience giving them than your own
middle-aged GP has had.

One positive thing about my hyster is that I will never have to have one
again!!

Tweed

My mother was told that she still did have to have them.

Joy

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"Christina Websell" wrote in
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Mammogram today, ouch, ouch and ouch. Results in 2 weeks - ish.
Pre-op assessment Thursday. My cup runneth over with medical
appointments
this week.

Tweed -- bad mood now

Christina Websell wrote:


One positive thing about my hyster is that I will never have to have one
again!!

Hate to tell you this, Tweed. If you've had a hyster, they still take a smear
from the vault ie where the cervix used to be.

Weirdest smear ever taken belonged to a hospital I worked at (they kept it to
completely confuse know-it-all docs). This woman insisted it was her "right"
as a woman to have a smear test when she wasn't offered one.

The reason she wasn't offered one was that prior to some fairly major surgery,
she had been male!

Lesley

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On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 20:49:49 +0100, "Christina Websell"
wrote:

Mammogram today, ouch, ouch and ouch. Results in 2 weeks - ish.
Pre-op assessment Thursday. My cup runneth over with medical appointments
this week.

Tweed -- bad mood now


I know what you mean! Hang in there. It has to stop eventually!

Did my mammogram in June, and it was fine. May yours turn out the
same.

Ginger-lyn

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On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 20:49:49 +0100, "Christina Websell"
wrote:

Mammogram today, ouch, ouch and ouch. Results in 2 weeks - ish.
Pre-op assessment Thursday. My cup runneth over with medical appointments
this week.

Tweed -- bad mood now


I know what you mean! Hang in there. It has to stop eventually!

You would think so, wouldn't you? However at my pre-op assessment
yesterday they told me that the Leicester hospitals (3 of them) have to save
several million pounds before next May and as a result the ward that I was
due to stay on will be closed in the next couple of weeks. They were hoping
I would be suitable as a "day case" which they can still do. It means going
into hospital in the morning, having your operation and coming home the same
day.
I'm not okay for a day case - I could have told them that myself - so at the
moment the situation is that I will have to start the process all over
again. I have to be referred to another hospital, see another consultant,
get a new date for my operation and have a brand new pre-op assessment (ECG,
all the lot..)
For some reason my blood pressure was up in a mega way!! 140/100. Nursie
said I will take your BP again after your ECG and if it's still up I will
give you a letter for your doctor.
She took it again after my ECG, and it was 151/101.
I tried to explain that this always happens when I'm in hospital but she
wasn't convinced so I had a letter to deliver to my doctor today.
It was exactly the same when I was in hospital for my eye operations. My
blood pressure set off the panic monitor. It's on the normal scale when I
am well and living quietly at home with my cats and chickens.

Sigh. I have an appointment on Tuesday to have my BP checked and no doubt I
will have to attend often. From previous experience of pre-operative panic,
I know it will only gradually come down.
I'm not aware that I am worrying excessively, but obviously my body is.

Did my mammogram in June, and it was fine. May yours turn out the
same.

Thanks. I am probably at higher risk but the last one was okay *before* my
Ov ca. I am shutting my eyes on looking on the internet about where it can
spread afterwards.
I did enough surfing when I was diagnosed to scare me almost to death.

Tweed

"Christina Websell" wrote in message
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You would think so, wouldn't you? However at my pre-op assessment
yesterday they told me that the Leicester hospitals (3 of them) have to
save several million pounds before next May and as a result the ward that
I was due to stay on will be closed in the next couple of weeks. They
were hoping I would be suitable as a "day case" which they can still do.
It means going into hospital in the morning, having your operation and
coming home the same day.
I'm not okay for a day case - I could have told them that myself - so at
the moment the situation is that I will have to start the process all over
again. I have to be referred to another hospital, see another consultant,
get a new date for my operation and have a brand new pre-op assessment
(ECG, all the lot..)
For some reason my blood pressure was up in a mega way!!

When they pulled that on me a day before my ear surgery was first scheduled,
not only did my blood pressure go up, it stayed that way for quite some
time.

The ten month delay in getting the surgery, in addition to my own losses and
inconveniences cost my insurance close to $3,000 in repeated preoperative
testing. And in that time the cost of the surgery as well as the cost of
the implant device went up too.

Still make my blood pressure spike to think about it. It cost me the chance
to see my brother before he died or even to talk to him. And it cost me a
trip to Newfoundland with the cousins.

Jo

Christina Websell wrote:
You would think so, wouldn't you? However at my pre-op assessment
yesterday they told me that the Leicester hospitals (3 of them) have to save
several million pounds before next May and as a result the ward that I was
due to stay on will be closed in the next couple of weeks.

That's horrible. I hope that it doesn't cost anyone health-wise as a
result of having to delay their surgeries. Is a "ward" just referring
to a floor of the hospital with individual rooms, or is it just one big
room?
I guess I gripe too much about health care costs here, but the *care* I
have received has been second to none. I would be fuming if I was
scheduled for surgery and got put off like that.

Sherry

I tried to explain that this always happens when I'm in hospital

I get it myself and the proper term is "white coat hypertension" ie
you're tensed up because you're in hospital and when you see a doc then
your blood pressure shoots up. The only time fpr me it wasn't a problem
was when I went for a knee injury so I didn't anticipate having my BP
done and when a nurse did it as routine I wasn't tensed up and the
result was slightly on the higher side of normal but still normal,
which it has been since I was 19 and first had it done and didn't
expect it then either

Lelsey

Slave of the Fabulous Furballs

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I tried to explain that this always happens when I'm in hospital

I get it myself and the proper term is "white coat hypertension" ie
you're tensed up because you're in hospital and when you see a doc then
your blood pressure shoots up. The only time fpr me it wasn't a problem
was when I went for a knee injury so I didn't anticipate having my BP
done and when a nurse did it as routine I wasn't tensed up and the
result was slightly on the higher side of normal but still normal,
which it has been since I was 19 and first had it done and didn't
expect it then either

Lelsey

And even the furkids are subject to it. When Jake was last at the vet and
his heart rate was so high, the doc left the room for a while so Jake could
calm down and we could get a more accurate reading.

I mean what do they expect when they take their temperature and then check
their pulse?

Jo