King Chula Postponed Surgery

[BCG2024]

I am wondering what to think about this. King Chula keeps playing a shell game with my surgery. They tried moving it up first and now they postponed it by 4 days, a week out. Yes one week out.  The long and short of it is I could be put into an emergency situation as I have waited 6 months already for hernia surgery there. A hernia that has grown a lot. My fear is they are going to postpone again. I just lost out on money for the hotel reservations and will miss more income from work.  Is this standard operating procedure for them? There is absolutely no customer service included either. Thoughts? 

 

Talk about panic mode. 

[Sheryl]

Very common in government hospitals. OR space is at a premium and emergency procedures will often lead to elective ones being rescheduled. 

 

Much less frequent (but can still happen) at private hospitals but cost of course is higher. 

[BCG2024]

Sheryl -thanks for the quick insight. I think moving forward I'll use private hospitals for the quicker turnaround. The waiting game is long and nerve-wracking, then you still have to get through recovery. 

[JimHuaHin]

A little off topic.

 

I have had 3 hernia operations at 2 different sites - one when I was about 10 years old, another at about 40 and the final one at about 50 - in Australia.  The first two were in my groin area, and were classified as emergencies - for the first I was operated on in a private hospital, about 2 hours after seeing the doctor; for the second one, I was diagnosed in a public hospital ER late one Friday afternoon, the surgeon who saw men wanted the swelling to decline to make surgery easier, so I was operated on the following Monday morning.

 

 

[BCG2024]

This is my first one and I have lived with it for over 7 months now. I am sick of it because it limits lifestyle choices like traveling. I haven't slowed down at all, really. 

 

If a hernia becomes irreducible you could be facing a deadly emergency situation. The outcomes aren't always desirable or guaranteed here. Mine, although larger is still fully reducible.

[BCG2024]

As an addendum to this I was hit on my motorbike today by a motorcycle moving very fast. The accident broke my upper humerus head. The silver lining is the were able to do a closed reduction at the provincial hospital which was incredibly painful btw. Anyway, I am going into hernia surgery in a sling....on opposite sides of the body. It didn't effect the hernia which I was very worried about.

 

You can't make this stuff up.