I think I can...one month on...
a Cpap BEFORE I get my pulm clearence. I am a little frustrated with it, but I know that this is the process. I don't like the way I have had to jump thru the hoops, but I will get there. I am guessing that since I have to have a months worth of data before I can be released for surgery I won't be having surgery until at the earliest February. I am very frustrated with the physician who is doing my pulm clearence, but I will get thru it. I told his nurse of my frustration and she keeps telling me all doctors make people do this and I told her that was NOT true. She was a bit stunned I knew that. She insists that the Cpap will affect my coming out of anesthsia. Is that not why I am in the hospital???? It looks like it will be ONE YEAR of working on this before I get my surgery. I think that I will be sooooooo ready I will be over the moon when it does happen.
So, for now I am like the little engine that could-
I think I can, I think I can, I think I can
teach
I have been on a cpap machine for the past 3 years, I was on the higher setting with oxygen and the minute I can out of the surgical suite into recovery they had my CPAP strap on. They can monitor you during recovery and in the hospital but the cpap is a added assurance that you will not stop breathing while in a twighlight sleep. Even with the CPAP on I would drift off and they would say breath Vicki. So its frustrating going through these measures but its to protect you.
Don't be in such a hurry, good thing come to those who wait. It will happen for you. More and more doctors are requiring this due to the rates of malpractice insurance they want every t crossed and every i dotted.
Good Luck
Vicki
I know in my HEAD that vickie is correct, but sometimes I get tired of waiting. I have to say the doc's office has NOT been as on the ball as it could have been and that has added to my frustration- BIG TIME!! I know that the WLS having me go thru all these tests is really a good thing, but pulm's office is quite irritating at times. Regardless of the time it takes I am not giving up on me, so I plod along like that little engine.
Hang in there, Teach! It took almost a year from my 1st seminar to actual surgery date. Yes, it seemed like forever and yes, it got very frustrating. I had to take cpap machine to hospital, but never had to use it there. It was just a precaution they insisted on. This too shall pass, so keep that postive attitude and don't let the small hurdles get you down. I know you can, I know you can, I know you can! The Chorus Teacher with the Band
i had bad experience several years ago when i had hyster---my surgery....i assumed that everyone knew i was using cpap but i did not inform them again of this... i had test couple mos before this and had to be anesthesized (spelling okay?) i had difficulty with waking up and in recovery that told me to be aware of this and i had assumed they had put this in notes somewhere...anyway to make long story short...after surgery i ended back up in recovery with breathing tube -----was in recovery another 24 hrs ...
