A painful 485

Jun 03, 2011

I didn't get out of the habit of blogging my weigh loss.  Instead I got an ulcer and a stricture.  I always thought I might get an ulcer due to stress and it would cause mild discomfort but an ulcer is absolutely no joke!!  I actually had to visit the hospital twice within a week.  Now, I am doing everything that I can to avoid revisiting the hospital because right now I look like a pin cushion.  I don't feel back to 100% but all things considered, I feel better than I did last week.

I think the most frustrating part of having the ulcer was my surgeon told me that it wouldn't be an ulcer or a stricture.  I understand physicians can be wrong but to impress upon the patient that a certain diagnosis will not be the case and then it turns out that it is the case causes me to lose some confidence in that physician.  I am not saying I do not want a physician who isn't confident in their findings but at the same time, I think every physician has to be able to find that middle ground between overconfident and open to all possibilities.  In this case, my physican, Dr. Bilof, failed to do so.  It is probably best that I just let it go but this is a major change in my life and I need/want him to be open to all possibilities of what is going on inside my body.  I am relying on his knowledge in order to succeed with this change.  I appreciate he was able to see me on such short notice when I complained of pain but I still have some angst that he conveyed the impression of that I didn't have an ulcer or a stricture when 24 hours later, it turned out I had both.  

Maybe I am asking him of too much but its my health and I am going to ask for the best.

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