April 2, 2009

Apr 02, 2009

I am eagerly awaiting my appointments next month.  Currently I am having some serious problems with acid reflux and have started taking pariet.  It is working, but I am still having bouts of nausea after a meal.  It sort of worries me.  I have an appointment with the local surgeon to see if she will scope me.  I am hoping she will as that will be one less thing I have to do when I got to Victoria next month.  I am pretty excited!  I have heard that Rusnak, my surgeon, is booking into the Fall.  I have also heard that he is definitely going to be retiring but will be replaced by an experienced surgeon.  So, some good and bad news there.  I know that I would definitely prefer Rusnak to do the surgery, but sometimes I just don't care as long as the surgeon knows what s/he is doing.  Really, being in BC there are not a lot of options for docs who do this surgery and are covered by MSP.  So a person either waits an excruciatingly long time to Amson or Tang, or they take their chances with Rusnak retiring and this new surgeon taking over and possibly doing their surgery.  In any event, the surgery gets done. 
I learned some interesting information yesterday.  I was unaware that bariatric patients should wear a medical alert bracelet that indicates the type of surgery they have had as well and that they shouldn't have a blind NG tube put in.  It makes sense though.  I will for sure be wearing a medic alert regarding this. 

1 Comment