Thwdp
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Hi - I just had my surgery date changed - on the day of surgery.
Not sure if it is a usual NHS thing here in the UK for OHS or not, so thought I would post on it and see if anyone else has had the experience.
Reasons for being bumped off the list were:
1 - they had some emergency cases come in that morning which they needed to deal with - obviously can't complain about that.
2 - an angiogram and CT scan the day before surgery showed I had a 6 cm dilated aorta so they are recommending I have that replaced while they are "in there". And that being a longer and more complex procedure, with double the "in hospital" bed time required meant that they didn't have the bed space for me.
Obviously I can't complain if others are worse than me and need more immediate treatment, but the delay is annoying (now to take place on 7th Jan), leaving me with 3 more weeks of anxious waiting (as you all say that is the hardest part) and not to mention it will cost me around £4,000 in lost earnings (everything was planned perfectly for recovery of Christmas!).
Don't get me wrong - there are obviously things I am grateful for as well - like being able to have elective rather than emergency surgery etc. But I just wanted to see if anyone here had experience of being bumped more than once? Because this happening twice will be intolerably annoying.
Plus I just needed somewhere to rant I feel better already.
Not sure if it is a usual NHS thing here in the UK for OHS or not, so thought I would post on it and see if anyone else has had the experience.
Reasons for being bumped off the list were:
1 - they had some emergency cases come in that morning which they needed to deal with - obviously can't complain about that.
2 - an angiogram and CT scan the day before surgery showed I had a 6 cm dilated aorta so they are recommending I have that replaced while they are "in there". And that being a longer and more complex procedure, with double the "in hospital" bed time required meant that they didn't have the bed space for me.
Obviously I can't complain if others are worse than me and need more immediate treatment, but the delay is annoying (now to take place on 7th Jan), leaving me with 3 more weeks of anxious waiting (as you all say that is the hardest part) and not to mention it will cost me around £4,000 in lost earnings (everything was planned perfectly for recovery of Christmas!).
Don't get me wrong - there are obviously things I am grateful for as well - like being able to have elective rather than emergency surgery etc. But I just wanted to see if anyone here had experience of being bumped more than once? Because this happening twice will be intolerably annoying.
Plus I just needed somewhere to rant I feel better already.