Author: toothygrin
Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2011 1:13 pm
PRINT OUT That ARTICLE from NIH. I had a heart cath back in the spring. I ALMOST printed out that paper to take to the anesthesiologist (who was a pompous ass) in my opinion. Most anesthesiologist are caring and soft spoken….not this guy and they were running so far behind, he wouldn’t have time to read it. IF you have time drop a copy off to your cardiologist and one to the anesthesiologist. I am not good with pain and it explains in the article why we are not good with pain. Heart Cath is NOT fun. You are awake for some of it, groggy, but enough to know when something hurts. It does hurt. the numbing at the groin site wore off and I could feel him manipulating the tube that goes in that area. i kept telling them that I hurt and couldI have more to knock me out a little. Well, The ansth. said, "She’s fine, she’s had enough. The poor cardiologist just looked back and forth between me and the anest. He just kept saying he was sorry. Story ends….It Does HURT!!! and then they have some huge person press on the groin site for 20 minutes, someone tell me that doesn’t hurt!! Left a HUGE bruise.
SO, now on Thursday I have a catheter ablation. A month a go, I printed out the NIH papers, two copies. One for her which I highlighted all the important parts and one to give her anesthesiologist. Well, I happened to be in a-fib all day yesterday, and she happened to be the cardiologist on call. She THANKED ME for the papers I sent her and she said she learned a lot. WOW, did that make me feel like a million bucks? Yes it did. She said to not worry and that she would personally talk to the anesthesiologist. I also gave her the sheet from something I got in the mail from the alliance of Buprephrine patients??? It actually gives a visual drawing of how it works in the brain on the receptor sites. These docs know the word and learned the word in school, but THEy do not know how it works. I’m telling ya right now. Save yourself a lot of worry,print it today and fax it if you have no time left. It’s worth it.
Good luck to you and let us know how everything goes.
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