What the doctor said...

my roomie's mother had a ruptured brain aneurysm, she's doing great now, but it did nearly kill her - has left a little damage, but you would have to have known her before to recognize it.

I'm so glad her mother is o.k. Hope yours is doing good to. Happy days to u.

thanks, mom wasn't having one of her better days, but it wasn't as bad as it might've been

yeah, mine wasn't very big, but it WAS on my boob, and it was pretty uckky looking until the "proud flesh" filled in the hole

Yuck!!!

Yeah, BarBara, it was really gross. But you can get used to anything and after a few days it was like looking in a butcher's window, only it was my insides behind the glass!

hoping your mom makes on with out getting any worce hugs to her

yeah, that big "C" is a scary one, that's what killed my friend Elaine, my cousin, my great-aunts, my grandfather and my dad. My mom has had 3 bouts of skin cancer, not melanoma, and a lumpectomy that wasn't malignant but was pre-cancer.

Yeah, that's a good one!

That's funny! I guess I'm going to have to tell about my ob/gyn experiences

I went to a hospital with an earache - of course, I was in Durango Colorado and my doc was in Austin Texas... At least he wasn't a bad doc. Now, my dad's cancer guy had totally bad service, and a co-worker of mine later said she went to him once and would NEVER go back to him. I got to talk to his wife - turned out she knew my mom from their church and recognized my last name and she was very nice - Have I mentioned that DESPITE the fact that I live in one of the 20 largest cities in the U.S. its still nearly a small town to me...?

I have found over the years that doctors and nurses have strange senses of humors. I think it's due to the fact they have to deal with disturbing things everyday. So what bothers you and me doesn't bother them in the least. I remember my mother making us watch someone being operated on during dinner time. She was the only one with a good appetite that night.

I don't think so! Gosh! this society says that a woman's hair is her "glory" and to not have it! OMG! That's anything BUT MINOR!!!

Yikes! I hope that you do well!

glad that was all it was!

Actually, I've known a couple of people here in town that it burst, but it might've been different where and when it happened to you

I waited to long to go to the doctor first of all. Because I was always irregular with my monthly, I figured I was just getting my period. Seeing as I always had (have again)pains very heavily, I just took an aspirin and figured I could still sleep for an other hour before school. Normally that would not have been a big problem. As I lay back down the pains got worse. Seeing as the night before my mother had threatened to take her life, telling me not to blame myself but she just could not take it anymore. I figured the pains were worse because of the stress. (Something my Mom does not remember in this day) So I went back down stairs and made myself some thee and sat there with my pillow on my stomach. I think at that time it was around 6am, I called the doctor and asked for pain stiller s because my period pains were out of control. I could come get them at 9 am. In the mean time these pains are killing me, I am crying and crying and don't now what to do. At 9 I walked (as well as I could ) to the doctor for the medicine. Went back home, took one and for 30 minutes I was all right. You are only allowed one every 4 to 6 hours. After 30 mins the pain came back, worse than before. To make a long story short, at 15:00 I was brought to the hospital and in the evening they operated. It was not my period, it was my appendix

[b]I can relate. My appendix burst, & it hurt far worse than my having given birth with no meds did! Maggiepie "WHERE'S THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE?"[/b]

docs always try to get you to get by on the least amount of medication - and actually, that's a good thing

That's right; just like mother knows best; a doctor too.

Ha! You are right; that's why I can get strong medicine from the private doctor instead of the subsidized one..

Staph - that's a scary one, and that you got there in time Now, the former roommate went to the hospital in the middle of the night and they sent her home. She went to her doctor later that morning and he was calling them to find out WHY they hadn't admitted her and was sending her BACK!

multiple births always increase the danger of both the children and the mother so I can sort of see where he was coming from, but he did have poor timing

that's sucks, but at least she'll never have the problems that we've had here! And I'm guessing they fixed her tubes too - hope they didn't charge her again!

and all they said was 'oops'??!!

Yeah, luckily they did it the second time for free. Now there is one lady that was from Hemon that had a whole hysteractomy done, 3 year's later she had twin's. It was the same Doctor too. So it make's you wonder what he was doing when he was opening the women up. I know alot of women stopped going to him after that.

that was mean, if I had been your mom, that would've been the last time I was taking you to him

that sounds more like blackmail - I wouldn't have gone back to him either - and I'd've made sure everyone knew what he had done

those are both not something you want to hear

OUCH! Yeah, I've had a tooth he had to give me several shots to numb up.

that is a strange thing for a doc to say, tho I've had a few that I've baffled - and the black on the former roommate's legs had one doctor shrugging - turned out to be poor circulation

now that suxs, man, I hope I don't hear that one!