You alreeady know
Haven't been hanging out here at all lately, but I got an email from the Obesity Coalition about the SHBP removing weight loss surgery from the health plan. Just came here to mention it, but you've already posted about it. Glad to know you guys are on top of it.
Oh, and just thought I'd mention, I had the opportunity to meet Dr. Smith this summer when I was an emergency admission to Kennestone Hospital. I was having stomach pain, back, pain, nausea and dry heaving 1x a day for about a week. it would last an hour and then I'd be fine. Then one day, it wouldn't stop. My hubby (had the DS with Dr. Smith in 2003) took me to Kennestone because he wasn't driving down to Northside during rush hour. They finally admitted me around 2 am and the general surgeon who admitted me came by around 7am. He said I had a hernia and his goal was to get me out of pain and get me out of there...let me go to my own docs (didn't want to come within 200 ft of me with a scalpel). Hubby called Dr. Smith's office and asked if he would come by and look at the CT scan for a 2nd opinion. Though I knew full well bariatric surgeons don't take on other surgeon's patients. Dr. Smith came by in the early afternoon. He was on his way into surgery, but he had looked at my scan. I had a hernia with a "corkscrew bowel obstruction" and needed surgery that day. Dr. Smith did the surgery.
The whole hernia/bowel obstruction thing is just one of those fluky things to happen...but I'm a rheumatology patient and as the rheumie and I discussed the other day, fluky things always seems to happen to rheumie patients. And Dr. Smith had the standard bedside manner of a surgeon, but he was a good surgeon...as well as the team he had with him. And I'm glad he didn't send me out, 'cause it really was an emergency. I guess if he really didn't want to touch me, he could have put me in an ambulance and sent me to Northside.
-talksoup
Oh, and just thought I'd mention, I had the opportunity to meet Dr. Smith this summer when I was an emergency admission to Kennestone Hospital. I was having stomach pain, back, pain, nausea and dry heaving 1x a day for about a week. it would last an hour and then I'd be fine. Then one day, it wouldn't stop. My hubby (had the DS with Dr. Smith in 2003) took me to Kennestone because he wasn't driving down to Northside during rush hour. They finally admitted me around 2 am and the general surgeon who admitted me came by around 7am. He said I had a hernia and his goal was to get me out of pain and get me out of there...let me go to my own docs (didn't want to come within 200 ft of me with a scalpel). Hubby called Dr. Smith's office and asked if he would come by and look at the CT scan for a 2nd opinion. Though I knew full well bariatric surgeons don't take on other surgeon's patients. Dr. Smith came by in the early afternoon. He was on his way into surgery, but he had looked at my scan. I had a hernia with a "corkscrew bowel obstruction" and needed surgery that day. Dr. Smith did the surgery.
The whole hernia/bowel obstruction thing is just one of those fluky things to happen...but I'm a rheumatology patient and as the rheumie and I discussed the other day, fluky things always seems to happen to rheumie patients. And Dr. Smith had the standard bedside manner of a surgeon, but he was a good surgeon...as well as the team he had with him. And I'm glad he didn't send me out, 'cause it really was an emergency. I guess if he really didn't want to touch me, he could have put me in an ambulance and sent me to Northside.
-talksoup
Highest Weight/Surgery Weight/Current Weight/Goal
426.4/356/216.8/165?
Hey TS,
sorry to hear of your complications. Seems a lot of that iis going on around here lately. I am glad it was taken care of and you are better.
sorry to hear of your complications. Seems a lot of that iis going on around here lately. I am glad it was taken care of and you are better.
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