WHEN GOOD SURGERIES GO BAD
So I had my surgery Wednesday to remove the mass in my throat and just about everything bad that could happen happened.
Except they didn’t find cancer.
But they also didn’t NOT find cancer. We’ll know about that in a week.
Me waiting for surgery pre/op. Clearly, I had no fucking clue what I was in for.
To say that it went badly is an understatement of biblical proportions — seeing as my first surgery Wednesday {yes, I said FIRST SURGERY} resulted in the anesthesiologist failing to control my post/op pain causing my blood pressure to spike at more than 220 over some totally ungodly number, thus a hematoma developed that fucking exploded on the elevator during the ride from the recovery room to critical care resulting a in “bleed out” followed by absolute pandemonium among the entire hospital floor staff with screams for the crash cart and, best of all, my surgeon actually opening my throat back up WITHOUT anesthetic of any kind IN A FUCKING HOSPITAL HALLWAY WHILE I WAS TOTALLY CONSCIOUS.
Rest assured I’ll have all the gory details for you in a full length post {complete with pictures} once I’ve recovered. In the meantime won’t you please enjoy these shots of my new surgical scar{S} and the drain line they had to install.
I’m not sure which is the original surgery incision site and which was done in the hospital hallway. I think the hallway incision is the top one and the one with the tube was the first surgery of the day. Either way, I think my surgeon did a really nice job don’t you?
The turkey baster bulb that fills with my precious bodily fluids that I have to carry around for the next couple of days that’s attached to the tube that goes into my throat. Pretty, huh?
Oh, and they removed part of my thyroid but not the whole thing. So there’s that at least I guess.
November 20th, 2009 at 6:33 am
Fuck, you poor guy. hang in there!
November 20th, 2009 at 6:38 am
Oh my God! I can’t imagine how terrible that must have been. Aren’t those hand grenade drains lovely? I had to wear one of those, plus another drain, for two months after my gall bladder surgery. Not fun. I hope the rest of your recovery is without incident.
November 20th, 2009 at 7:05 am
Geez Scott, what an experience………………..good to hear you survived……….best thoughts
November 20th, 2009 at 7:10 am
holy crap scott. at least the incisions look small and clean. sorry you had a bad time. i hope now you are jacked up on all kinds of pain meds to make up for it.
November 20th, 2009 at 7:12 am
You seem to have the right touch for choosing abattoirs thinly disguised as medical establishments instead of genuine hospitals.
Wish you a speedy recovery and no further horrific experiences.
November 20th, 2009 at 7:59 am
OMFG!!!!! This would be my worst nightmare and I would have every news station in the city at that hospital beating down the doors of all these failed “doctors.” We are seriously doomed in the USA, so much for best damned health care in the world.
November 20th, 2009 at 8:03 am
Since incision sites are usually prepped and shaved I’d say the emergency hallway one is the lower one. How do they close the skin? It looks almost healed already.
November 20th, 2009 at 8:25 am
Your life is a battleground. Good thing you’re a Marine!
November 20th, 2009 at 8:32 am
Scott, my day is brighter when I am able to read your posts. Nice to see you back online, but very sorry for what you are going through.
November 20th, 2009 at 8:50 am
TL they Super Glued them shut.
November 20th, 2009 at 9:16 am
Where the fuck do they get these alleged “doctors” from??? Voodoo schools???? Who screwed the pooch on this one? Can you say “law suit” in two words or less? Egads! At least it doesn’t look like cancer; bue we’ll see what the biopsy guys say.
What a horrible experience to have to go through for you. Here’s a stupid question: did it hurt terribly and how would you rate it on a scale from one to ten? Don’t you hate when the nurse asks you that? Don’t you sometimes feel like telling her to shove it up her ass? Or was it so much pain that you screamed uncontrollably? I really am sorry that you had to suffer so much Scott. At least now you will recover, hopefully!
November 20th, 2009 at 10:38 am
feel better and better, man–you deserve the best
November 20th, 2009 at 10:39 am
Scott, many warm wishes for this nightmare to end SOON. I’ve always thought those sudden crises with calls for a crash cart and impromptu surgery were an invention of the doctor shows, but clearly you were the epicenter of one. I’m very happy you survived to write about it and that Richard and you will be back together soon. Hang in and know that people care!
November 20th, 2009 at 11:01 am
Glad your on the mend. Sorry for what you had to go through. Keeping my fingers crossed for the pathologist’s report.
November 20th, 2009 at 11:45 am
oh good god, scott! that’s insanity! i can’t even imagine going through half of that. hang in there and feel better soon!
November 20th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
Hey Scott
What a mightmare! Hang in there buddy and hope all goes well.
Best Wishes
November 20th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
Oh, man, Scott. Get well soon. Less pain, more kisses!!
November 20th, 2009 at 1:01 pm
Scott — feel better soon! But really, you have had some really bad luck with surgeons this year. You should probably reconsider the pec implants and butt lift.
November 20th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
You have the worst fucking luck! Get well.
November 20th, 2009 at 2:16 pm
Hmm, well…best of luck in your recovery. And you do know the name of a good attorney, right?
HUGS…
November 20th, 2009 at 3:40 pm
You’re like a walking episode of ER…get well Scott.
November 20th, 2009 at 3:48 pm
We can spell lawsuit ? – Jeezuz mate they are putting you through the wringer. Best thoughts and blowies to you mate.
November 20th, 2009 at 3:59 pm
Scott – get better soon! Thinking of you! xoxo
November 20th, 2009 at 4:08 pm
That godamn murphy and his laws. Hope you have a speedy recovery!
November 20th, 2009 at 4:40 pm
Sorry for your troubles…feel better soon.
November 20th, 2009 at 4:47 pm
Holy Shit. Because of your medicated state, Oh Most Sovereign One, I am beloved of your ending a sentence a preposition with. Scott, speedy recovery wished and I wish you a Happy Thanksgiving
November 20th, 2009 at 4:54 pm
That’s definitely not the kind of tube that belongs in your throat.
And hopefully your brother won’t be trumping this one.
A very heartfelt hug from Toronto, A.J.
November 20th, 2009 at 6:11 pm
Scott, I agree with jockboy that the lower incision is the one they did in the hallway as that is also the site where they placed the JP drain to help drain the hematoma. Yes, your anestheseologist should have watched your BP better! That hematoma could have occluded your airway. Thus the calls for the crash cart!
Are you having your surgeries in a VA hospital or is the VA picking up your tab in one of Seattle’s “finest” hospitals?
The boyfriend definetly will have a lot of “making up” to do when he gets back after all your surgeries and set backs.
Wishing you a speedy recovery.
November 20th, 2009 at 6:48 pm
Scott sorry things dindnt go well. Hope this nightmare ends soon. I hope
that when rich is home he makes a good bed side nurse and doesn’t let
you left a finger.
November 20th, 2009 at 7:21 pm
Jeebus, Scott — you didn’t have to go all THAT far to prove how into the drama you are. Hope the rest of it works out.
So…this is VA medicine? Or have all these fuck-ups been thanks to some of them doctors that hate health care reform?
Be well, bitch.
November 20th, 2009 at 7:32 pm
After the lawsuit, I think you should consider putting yourself through medical school. Seriously, could you do any worse performing surgeries on yourself? Besides, you’d get to pick your own interns as a Doctor, right?
November 20th, 2009 at 7:39 pm
Even in your hospital issued [karate] gi, you’re still a sexy beast. Wishing you a speedy recovery, and even quicker settlement from defendant-doctors. xox
November 20th, 2009 at 9:38 pm
Sorry to hear about what happened. Get well soon.
November 21st, 2009 at 12:39 am
I think everyone else has used just about every adjective I said when I was reading your posting. Just glad you made it through and hope the pathology comes back negative.
In the vain of what some others wrote, back in October I did a posting on Bitchy Old Queen titled “When Doctors Think They’re God” about the horrible misdiagnosis of a man in the UK. I’m sure all of you will remember the famous movie clip that goes with the posting.
Keep your spirits up Scott wheez purring fur u !
http://bitchyoldqueen.blogspot.com/2009/10/when-doctors-think-theyre-god.html
November 21st, 2009 at 5:51 am
And this is the best healthcare in the world? FFS.
November 21st, 2009 at 7:01 am
We always knew you were so butch, Scott, but this is fuckin unreal! We’re praying for you Big Guy. Love you.
Rob Hamilton NJ
November 21st, 2009 at 7:55 am
The question unasked so far: did you wear the cap right into the O.R.?
November 21st, 2009 at 10:07 am
Aha! Question answered in the next entry.
November 21st, 2009 at 12:27 pm
get well soon.
November 22nd, 2009 at 6:53 pm
Glad you arent dead. That would suck. and now with the tube and Bulb, you are totally like the Ood from Dr. Who.