Bamabob, please look inside... my heart hurts..----->
Dear Bamabob,
I hope you see this, cause I want to tell you how absolutely horrible that I feel about what happened to you. Wow...I can not begin to tell you how sorry I am about what you have been through....
I have had to be absent for the past several days and you had been so heavy on my mind...
I had to spend all day Monday at Vanderbilt. I didn't get away from there til late after noon, so I ran by Baptist to go see sweet Ms. Jane O..... She looked absolutely beautiful as she rested as we assured her that she could push away on that morphine pump all she wanted to...LOL
As I was trying to get home I was thinking about you being at Vanderbilt the next morning and I assured myself that even if I didn't get to check the boards that some of my great support phone buddies would let me know how you came through and then in the next couple of days I could swing by Vanderbilt and take photos of you in your Superman Pajamas too.......See Bob L. on where to get those....
So I get a text message that it is urgent that I check out the boards cause our precious Bamabob has had a postponement and I need to get a hold of someone about it right away.... So...... I get pretty anxious and upset and start making some phone calls till I can find out about you..... I finally get to talk to some folks that think the world of you (which we all do)... and I just get ill in my heart about it all.....
I want to tell you how moved I was when I read your follow up reply that you were not blaming Dr. Richards or Dr. Hyman for the whole ordeal and that they were looking out for you and that you were some how able to put this nightmare behind you and move forward..... OMG..... You my friend are a much bigger and better person than I could ever hope or want to be.... When I grow up I want to be just like BAMABOB..... I my friend could not be so forgiving....
If it is any consolation I hope that you know that this type of thing is not exclusive to Vanderbilt....It has happened at Baptist and Centennial and many many many top Centers of Excellence across the country.... Incompetence runs amuck....... I have many detailed horror stories that are similar to yours right here in Nashville... So I hope that if anyone else reads this that has upcoming surgeries at Vanderbilt please don't think this only happens at Vanderbilt.... It happens everywhere..... I still believe that you have made an excellent choice in selecting Dr. Richards as your surgeon.... He is the top in his field and in 2 more short weeks you will be a loser like the rest of the alumni....... The only difference is you are gonna have special diamonds, rubies and sapphires in your crown cause you had to suffer more than the average Joe.......
If I have yelled it out once I have yelled it out many times that everyone has to be the Captain of their Own Ship during the whole process of this journey... From your first seminar to your Insurance Coverage to your Insurance Submission to your pre op post op after care etc.. etc.. etc...
Bamabob, I would like to say that you had absolutely no idea that this detail had fallen through the cracks... I would have had no idea either.... I did not know all the pre op testing procedures that were required until I went through them... You trusted your medical staff to guide you through as well as you should have....
I am so sorry that this happened to you... Thank you for letting us be your friend and thank you so much for sharing something so personal and so painful....
I know for sure I am gonna be visiting someone in Vanderbilt in 2 weeks......
Imma thikin that it is okay to add Jack on the liquid diet.... You my friend have earned special privileges.....LOL Group Hug.....
I have had to be absent for the past several days and you had been so heavy on my mind...
I had to spend all day Monday at Vanderbilt. I didn't get away from there til late after noon, so I ran by Baptist to go see sweet Ms. Jane O..... She looked absolutely beautiful as she rested as we assured her that she could push away on that morphine pump all she wanted to...LOL
As I was trying to get home I was thinking about you being at Vanderbilt the next morning and I assured myself that even if I didn't get to check the boards that some of my great support phone buddies would let me know how you came through and then in the next couple of days I could swing by Vanderbilt and take photos of you in your Superman Pajamas too.......See Bob L. on where to get those....
So I get a text message that it is urgent that I check out the boards cause our precious Bamabob has had a postponement and I need to get a hold of someone about it right away.... So...... I get pretty anxious and upset and start making some phone calls till I can find out about you..... I finally get to talk to some folks that think the world of you (which we all do)... and I just get ill in my heart about it all.....
I want to tell you how moved I was when I read your follow up reply that you were not blaming Dr. Richards or Dr. Hyman for the whole ordeal and that they were looking out for you and that you were some how able to put this nightmare behind you and move forward..... OMG..... You my friend are a much bigger and better person than I could ever hope or want to be.... When I grow up I want to be just like BAMABOB..... I my friend could not be so forgiving....
If it is any consolation I hope that you know that this type of thing is not exclusive to Vanderbilt....It has happened at Baptist and Centennial and many many many top Centers of Excellence across the country.... Incompetence runs amuck....... I have many detailed horror stories that are similar to yours right here in Nashville... So I hope that if anyone else reads this that has upcoming surgeries at Vanderbilt please don't think this only happens at Vanderbilt.... It happens everywhere..... I still believe that you have made an excellent choice in selecting Dr. Richards as your surgeon.... He is the top in his field and in 2 more short weeks you will be a loser like the rest of the alumni....... The only difference is you are gonna have special diamonds, rubies and sapphires in your crown cause you had to suffer more than the average Joe.......
If I have yelled it out once I have yelled it out many times that everyone has to be the Captain of their Own Ship during the whole process of this journey... From your first seminar to your Insurance Coverage to your Insurance Submission to your pre op post op after care etc.. etc.. etc...
Bamabob, I would like to say that you had absolutely no idea that this detail had fallen through the cracks... I would have had no idea either.... I did not know all the pre op testing procedures that were required until I went through them... You trusted your medical staff to guide you through as well as you should have....
I am so sorry that this happened to you... Thank you for letting us be your friend and thank you so much for sharing something so personal and so painful....
I know for sure I am gonna be visiting someone in Vanderbilt in 2 weeks......
Imma thikin that it is okay to add Jack on the liquid diet.... You my friend have earned special privileges.....LOL Group Hug.....
Thank you Trina. Believe me, I was upset and a part of me wanted to go off on somebody. But once I settled down and thought about it, I realized that Dr. Hyman and Dr. Richards made a decision to do what was in my best interest under the cir****tances. And that is exactly what I want them to do. So, if anything, my confidence in them is greater than before this fiasco.
BamaBob54 
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Hey sweetie,
Believe you me, "upset" is an understatement. They would have had to taken me straight off the IV and gurney straight in to Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital... Cause that is the only place that would have been suitable for me under the cir****tances... Like I said before.... You my friend..... When they call the roll for the person with the biggest heart and the biggest Kahunasssss.... Is going straight to the top of the waiting line..... You are the only person in my opinion that has experienced actual hell on earth....
None of us here could ever ever ever sit here and tell you "oh we know how you feel" cause we do not and never will......
I know this is not anything like your story but it might run along the same lines in some small way....
Being a female the day that we go to the hospital for our weight loss surgery, they always want to do a pregnancy test.... Okay... so we do understand why.... But we sit here and tell ourselves go ahead and test away cause we know we are not pregnant and we just want to go in, have our weight loss surgery and go home....
Any who.... there is an actual lady on the OH support board that goes in for her surgery and we are all sitting here cheering her on.... She goes on her brutal liquid diet, goes on the date of her surgery to the hospital, they strap her on the gurney, start her IV and take her blood sample for the routine pregnancy test.... No problems..... Oh Chit, they come in like 45 minutes later and tell her that they get a "POSITIVE" reading on her pregnancy test and that they can not do the WLS and they need to send her home to have a follow up visit with her OB GYN....
She begins to sob uncontrobbly and tell them that there is some kind of mistake and that there is no way that she could be pregnant cause if anyone knows it is her and she begs and pleads to no avail... They send her home....
She follows through with the appointment with her OB GYN, they do a pregnancy test and the test comes back "NEGATIVE".... She is not pregnant....... They proceed to tell her the percentages of FALSE POSITIVES and that is what happened to her.... And they are SO sorry.... OMG......
I think that the lady can be visited at her local psychiatric hospital.........
It DOES happen EVERYWHERE...... RIGHT IN OUR OWN BACKYARD....... If you have been immune to this you need to drop down on your knees and thank GOD above......
Believe you me, "upset" is an understatement. They would have had to taken me straight off the IV and gurney straight in to Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital... Cause that is the only place that would have been suitable for me under the cir****tances... Like I said before.... You my friend..... When they call the roll for the person with the biggest heart and the biggest Kahunasssss.... Is going straight to the top of the waiting line..... You are the only person in my opinion that has experienced actual hell on earth....
None of us here could ever ever ever sit here and tell you "oh we know how you feel" cause we do not and never will......
I know this is not anything like your story but it might run along the same lines in some small way....
Being a female the day that we go to the hospital for our weight loss surgery, they always want to do a pregnancy test.... Okay... so we do understand why.... But we sit here and tell ourselves go ahead and test away cause we know we are not pregnant and we just want to go in, have our weight loss surgery and go home....
Any who.... there is an actual lady on the OH support board that goes in for her surgery and we are all sitting here cheering her on.... She goes on her brutal liquid diet, goes on the date of her surgery to the hospital, they strap her on the gurney, start her IV and take her blood sample for the routine pregnancy test.... No problems..... Oh Chit, they come in like 45 minutes later and tell her that they get a "POSITIVE" reading on her pregnancy test and that they can not do the WLS and they need to send her home to have a follow up visit with her OB GYN....
She begins to sob uncontrobbly and tell them that there is some kind of mistake and that there is no way that she could be pregnant cause if anyone knows it is her and she begs and pleads to no avail... They send her home....
She follows through with the appointment with her OB GYN, they do a pregnancy test and the test comes back "NEGATIVE".... She is not pregnant....... They proceed to tell her the percentages of FALSE POSITIVES and that is what happened to her.... And they are SO sorry.... OMG......
I think that the lady can be visited at her local psychiatric hospital.........
It DOES happen EVERYWHERE...... RIGHT IN OUR OWN BACKYARD....... If you have been immune to this you need to drop down on your knees and thank GOD above......
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