Approximately a month later after radiologists at Stanford drained about 2 liters of fluid from my stomach, I felt discomfort and more pain as my tummy felt dissented and more bloated where I couldn't eat much at all, I felt a drainage was needed. So, after much complaints to hospice nurses that I needed a drainage to be done, they finally arranged for an appointment for me to get drained. So on December 13, the doctors at hospice arranged an appointment to go to San Jose's Regional Hospital ER to get my drained completed.
We arrived timely and got my vitals completed and were told to wait outside for a room for the Dr to complete the drain. Fast forward to 3 to 4 hours of waiting (augh!), we finally saw two doctors. The 2 doctors viewed my stomach through an ultra sound and stated that the fluid build up was premature. There was too little fluid to do anything at the moment and that the risks for infections were too high to do a drain. Disappointment overcame me and I couldn't fathom why they seemed to state that when obviously my stomach looked very big and dissented from fluid build up. I convince them to re-evaluate again and still, after a second look, they maintained their stance that it was still way too risky and that it was safer to have a of team radiologists install a permanent drainage rather than them do a drain.
So, with half a day's wasted waiting around, I left with emptied participation of a drainage.
However, during the 3- 4 hours of waiting around, with frustration boiling, I called Stanford to speak with my nurse practitioner; I told her of my ordeal here at Regional Hospital of rejection or the undue risks doctors in ER here were unwilling to take to complete my drainage. Thus, she offered to plan an appointment for next week to ensure that she can get one completed for me. So, call it a nice constellation, my disappointment lead me to believe that with a bit of patience, there's still hope that I can still get this drainage done in fact by a more, professional team of doctors. Hugs.
We arrived timely and got my vitals completed and were told to wait outside for a room for the Dr to complete the drain. Fast forward to 3 to 4 hours of waiting (augh!), we finally saw two doctors. The 2 doctors viewed my stomach through an ultra sound and stated that the fluid build up was premature. There was too little fluid to do anything at the moment and that the risks for infections were too high to do a drain. Disappointment overcame me and I couldn't fathom why they seemed to state that when obviously my stomach looked very big and dissented from fluid build up. I convince them to re-evaluate again and still, after a second look, they maintained their stance that it was still way too risky and that it was safer to have a of team radiologists install a permanent drainage rather than them do a drain.
So, with half a day's wasted waiting around, I left with emptied participation of a drainage.
However, during the 3- 4 hours of waiting around, with frustration boiling, I called Stanford to speak with my nurse practitioner; I told her of my ordeal here at Regional Hospital of rejection or the undue risks doctors in ER here were unwilling to take to complete my drainage. Thus, she offered to plan an appointment for next week to ensure that she can get one completed for me. So, call it a nice constellation, my disappointment lead me to believe that with a bit of patience, there's still hope that I can still get this drainage done in fact by a more, professional team of doctors. Hugs.
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