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Jeffrey W. Kolff
Dr. Kolff is absolutely fabulous! He is very nice and explains everything thoroughly. I have seen him twice so far, once for my consultation and the second time when he did my EGD. He makes you feel very comfortable and you know you are in good hands.
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  • Boating - We have a Formula 26' PC that we call our "vacation shore home".
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  • Married - Will be 13 years as of Nov 08. We have a beautiful 6 year old daughter.
  • RN - Currently in an Assoc RN program, hoping to get into clinicals for Fall 08.

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Well, it almost didn't happen...
posted on 5/22/08 11:46 am
I got a phone call from the surgeon's office at 3:45pm on Monday asking me if I ever went to see my family doctor or an Endocrinologist about my abnormal thyroid lab results from January.  I said no because I was told they were slightly out of range but that it wasn't a big deal.  Well, apparently it is to the anestheisiologists at Abington Hospital.  They were concerned that it could cause a cardiac episode during the operation!  I was totally freaking out!  I was told that they spoke with my family doctor and that he didn't seem to want to give me the clearence for surgery, which is what they needed.  I immediately called them and was told that he did give them clearence over the phone because he felt the slightly high results were not significant enough to cause concern.  I told them what the surgeon's office said and they told me to come right over.  I tried to call the surgeon's office back but they had already closed!!!  Then, about 10 minutes later, I got a cal from the surgeon himself.  He told me what the hospital was saying and that my family doc kind of "poo-pooed" over the whole thing and he wanted to be sure that I knew how serious this was.  I was so annoyed because they basically "poo-pooed" over the whole thing, too back in January when they had the results.  Otherwise ,we would not have been having this discussion.  He must have noticed that I was getting uoset from what he was saying about my family doctor because he quickly changed how he was talking and said that he just wanted to be sure that the doctor was not going to write the clearence letter just to write it and that I knew this could be serious.  I told him that my family doc would not ever do something like that, which would put me in danger.  He has been my doc for over 12 years and we are very close.  So, I went to see my family doctor and he gave me the clearence note and faxed one to the hospital.  I showed up the next morning at 8am, instead of 11am, so they could draw blood to retest the thyroid and do a stat consult with the Endocrinologist.  He was very nice.  He examined me and asked me a lot of questions.  He said that I showed no symptoms of having an overactive thyroid and that he would be willing to bet that it was my birth control that caused the high reading.  He cleared me for the surgery.  The anestheisiologist came in and read with he wrote and said that was good enough for him and that I was still on.  Unfortunately, the surgery before me ran long and I didn't go back until around 2:30pm instead of 1pm.  Dr. Kolff told me that since I wouldn't be out of recovery until 8 ot 9 pm and because of the thyroid scare, he would be keeping me overnight.  I wasn't happy about that at the time but after the surgery, I felt like I was run over by a Mac truck and was very nasous and threw up in recovery so I was happy I could just be wheeled to my room and go to sleep.  They took really good care of me and made me as comfortable as possible so it was worth staying over.  I was released around 3pm on Wednesday.  I am feeling okay.  The port site is killing me and makes it difficult to sit and stand without feeling like your side is ripping open but I have already noticed it getting a little less painful since yesterday.  I am so happy to be on the loser's bench!!  I have absolutely no desire to eat at all.  I hope that continues!!!


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