Last week I had a little operation to remove a polyp in my uterus. Filling out forms with the registrar beforehand, I come to the consent form, and the section where I say yes, ok, I've been told about the things that may go wrong while you're cutting and scraping and poking cameras into places cameras shouldn't go and you may do what you need to if you mess up or my body messes up for you. Fun things like a perforated uterus or accidental injury to other parts.
Was hysterectomy on that list? No.
Was hysterectomy a realistic potential risk of the particular procedure they were carrying out on my anaesthetised body? No.
Was I sitting there in my flimsy gown and disposable pants, clutching a pillow and thinking, oh my god if I don't put 'hysterectomy' down and something goes badly wrong and they can't stop the bleeding* and they have to take everything out and I wake up sans reproductive organs I am going to be so pissed that I wasn't paranoid enough to say 'you guys have to wake me up if you're going to remove things other than the polyp and ask me if it's okay, ok?'
One guess.
(* my last, major, operation did entail that risk, and I was warned an emergency hysterectomy was possible if that happened)
Was hysterectomy on that list? No.
Was hysterectomy a realistic potential risk of the particular procedure they were carrying out on my anaesthetised body? No.
Was I sitting there in my flimsy gown and disposable pants, clutching a pillow and thinking, oh my god if I don't put 'hysterectomy' down and something goes badly wrong and they can't stop the bleeding* and they have to take everything out and I wake up sans reproductive organs I am going to be so pissed that I wasn't paranoid enough to say 'you guys have to wake me up if you're going to remove things other than the polyp and ask me if it's okay, ok?'
One guess.
(* my last, major, operation did entail that risk, and I was warned an emergency hysterectomy was possible if that happened)
1 comment:
for what it's worth, I think you did the right thing. Doctors are asses!Never believe that they know more than you do!
Rosie
xx
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