The whole thing was fine, except that THREE people asked me "Is there a chance you might be pregnant?" - No - "Do you want a pregnancy test?" - No. Then when it was time for my op the porter checked I'd been to the loo, and wheeled me down. And THEN, one of the people who had spoken to me BEFORE I went to the loo, the actual SURGEON, said they wouldn't do the op unless I had a pregnancy test.
So they wheeled me from the pre-theatre anaesthetic room into recovery, which was just BRILLIANT for my PTSD, and of course there are absolutely no toilets in recovery, so they got a bedpan, but weirdly people who've been nil by mouth for six hours and made sure to pee before going to theatre don't have full bladders. It turns out.
It didn't matter what I said about my own body, cycle, sexual life, etc... He wouldn't take my word for it AND HE COULD HAVE CHECKED EARLIER.
Eventually the senior consultant came in and talked to me and HE seemed to believe me but he said they'd have to do a test anyway, for Legal Reasons (which sounds like Because Reasons to me) and so I had to have a
FUCKING CATHETER.
The most pain I was in all yesterday was from the catheter. I hate catheters. They are incredibly bad for my continence and I hate hate hate them.
Now I'm feeling just as ill as I was on Tuesday before the hospital, but I can't tell if it's because of the period I was having anyway or because of the op.
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Let's hope the hormonal coil does the trick!
And yes, hoping that this will have a good result in the end!
Because of their easily avoidable mistake which they repeated for a total of three times.
I hope you eventually achieve your aim of a whole hospital appointment without anything ghastly to complain about.
(Also, I keep reading very poorly signposted Adult Day Surgery Unit as "Very Poorly Adult Day Surgery Unit". Which I guess works too?)
I'm reminded of the lesbian friend who had to take pregnancy tests repeatedly and list two methods of contraception before she was allowed to have particularly toxic acne medication. Since she doesn't have sex with men, the first method of contraception listed was "abstinence"; since she had to put something down, the second was "condoms". Utterly farcical.
simultaneously, at least 1 of which must be a primary form, unless the patient commits to continuous abstinence from heterosexual contact, or the patient has undergone a hysterectomy or bilateral oophorectomy, or has been medically confirmed to be post-menopausal." So, if your friend had in fact committed to continuous abstinence from heterosexual contact, she should not have been required to put down 2 forms of effective contraception -- that's not how the program works. I had THOUGHT that iPledge was the only such system in operation at this time - was it some other one with which I am unfamiliar? Just curious. This type of thing drives me nuts. I kind of feel like we should just let everything be over the counter and if people want to auto-darwinate themselves or their offspring by screwing up with their meds, that's their problem. This seems to be a minority opinion, though.
I'm sorry things were made that horrendous by people being idiots.