Ki Hyun Oh M.D. The one thing I would say about Dr. Oh is that he's not there to be your friend. However, he's done about twenty billion of these surgeries and you couldn't really ask for a more skilled surgeon. My personal opinion is that if you require friendly banter or amiable interaction and great bedside manner, look elsewhere. If you're looking for a smart doctor with a low rate of complications, Dr. Oh might be a good surgeon for you.
Complications Yesterday morning I started having some excrutiating pain. It would come and go intermittently, with the episodes lasting about 20 minutes each time. The best way I can describe the pain is if a menstrual cramp and a diarhhoea pain had a baby in the form of a cactus. I like to think I have a fairly high tolerance for pain, but despite my best efforts to keep it quiet, I was screaming and crying and honestly thought I was going to black out.
My dad called the hospital even though I told him not to. Pain was something I expected going into this. Granted, I had never anticipated anything quite that severe, but I figured there was nothing a hospital could do for me. Nevertheless, he called and an hour later we were in the emergency room.
I had to go through a series of complicated, painful, and quite frankly, humiliating tests. Along the way, they discovered a bladder infection as a result of the catheter, which had been causing some discomfort but which I overlooked in the face of the overwhelming stomach pain.
6 hours in the hospital, a CT-scan, bloodwork, morphene shots, botched IV-s, and other things unmentionable later, and what did they discover as the source of the pain? Nothing. Not a word about it. They couldn't explain it and implied that I was being a baby about it. Yes, I was upset.
Now I'm on antibiotics for the infection and got some more Vicodin for the pain, but still fuming a little bit about the lack of a diagnosis. I'm seeing Dr. Oh tomorrow or Wednesday, so we'll see if he knows anything else.