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JodyC
I finally got to speak to my new surgeon Dr. Bove from Michigan. I am sooooo freaking mad I could just.....something really bad. I asked him what valve he preferred and he said he planned to put in the carbomedics valve. Now mind you my first heart surgeon who preformed the unsuccessful surgery on me May 22nd came to my room and told me and my family he had been on the phone speaking to Dr. Bove and that he might be able to put in the On-X for me no problem. Well after speaking to Dr. Bove he told me my first surgeon Dr. Riordan had never mentioned my valve choice and he could still do it but it would mean postponing my surgery until he can get the valve in stock. I could just go off on Dr. Riordan. It is bad enough he miscalculated my arotic valve size to begin with but then he just dropped me and never took care of making sure Dr. Bove knew what I wanted at all even though he sat right there in my room and said that he did. Dr. Bove told me on the phone " I got into this surgery the same way you did." I asked him then if he wanted to do my surgery and he said yes very much he just wanted me to understand he wasn't that well informed from Dr. Riordan. How would you all handle this? I am just furious. I started to cry on the phone with Dr. Bove and I could tell he felt bad. He said he would order the On-X and try to get it in as long as I was ok with having the carbomedics if it didnt' get there in time. I said I was because I really can't put my surgery off any longer and I was doing well to make it to the 23rd as it is. I at least know what the Konno procedure is now and he does them fairly often. My surgery will be 4-6 hours long and he thinks my valve should last 20+ years. I know alot of people on here say it is for a lifetime and that is what I am still hoping for. This whole thing has just been chaos from the get go and I just can't believe sometimes how patients get treated like we are being done a favor by the doctors operating on us. Even my regular GP can't figure out why Dr. Riordan wasn't able to figure out my valve size between the heart cath and the last minute CT scan. I don't know either but I do know I am going into the second surgery in a lot worse shape than the first one and that concerns me. Thanks for letting me vent. It is better to sit here and type out my fustrations than cry about it.