June 10, 2008
How To Prepare for Hysterectomy Surgery
If you have to prepare for hysterectomy, there is plenty of advice on the Internet, and you might even want to invest into a paper book on the subject. In the comment to a post from someone who is in this situation, I have outlined two other possibilities for getting better sooner:
I see you are having a scheduled hysterectomy. As with any surgery, it pays to prepare up front. The most practical advice is to take Rescue Remedy a week or two before the surgery, and several days immediately after the surgery. It will help both with fear from surgery and with waking up from anesthesia.
Another practical advice would be to get initiated into Reiki or that somebody near you get initiated, so that you have regular access to Reiki treatments. That will considerably speed up the recovery and lessen or very soon eliminate the pains.
The fastest way to get Reiki is from my Energy Pack page on this site, and Rescue Remedy should be readily available from any online or offline store.
Filed under Hysterectomy, Reiki by Dusko Savic
April 3, 2008
Wrongful Hysterectomy Can Lead to Death
Here’s a little story for you:
The patient undervent operation because of intestinal obstruction of an unknown nature. The surgeon called her husband and told him that he saw cancer and the uterus and the ovaries had to go. Another surgeon, a specialist in gynecology was called in, and a full hystererectomy was performed. It is only after the surgery that the tissue was examined pathologically, and of course, there was not one slight bit of cancer or any other tumor. The patient was put on hormonal therapy, and died a few years later of breast cancer.
Do you think this cannot happen to you? Well, it happened to Tamar Barnea, in Haifa, Israel, when she was only 27 years old; she died in July 2004.
You can read the whole story here, Haifa doctors get 2-month suspension for wrongful hysterectomy.
It is stories like this that keep me going to write this blog. If you are to have a hysterectomy, your best option is to read this site in its entirety, choose how you want to heal yourself, and then start working towards that solution.
Filed under Hysterectomy by Dusko Savic
March 22, 2008
Hysterectomy Recovery in Real Life
Hysterectomy recovery in real life is terra incognita in each case. When you speak with women about their hysterectomies and other surgeries as well, they tend to minimize the problems that followed, especially if that happened long time ago and all went well, after all. When you start digging, you hear how it really was. Now, with the ability to blog, many women post their “internal” problems as “external” posts, for everyone to learn and see. In this blog, truered37 had three posts, the first one on 48 hours before the operation, and the first and second followups.
Of course, we wish her all the luck in the world and the best of recovery in the future!
Filed under Hysterectomy News by Dusko Savic
March 4, 2008
Two Thirds of Hysterectomies Unnecessary
Who says that two thirds of hysterectomies is unnecessary — well, for this occasion, CNN does. This article outlies stories of four women who opted for different surgical procedures and were better for it.
Filed under Hysterectomy by Dusko Savic
January 18, 2008
Patient’s Informed Consent On Hysterectomy
Here is a recent case in India — I’ll quote from the blog post from the Law and Other Things blog
“…the doctor began by conducting a diagnostic laparoscopy but followed it up immediately thereafter, having obtained additional consent only from the patient’s mother (as the patient was still unconscious), with a second and more elaborate treatment procedure (‘laparotomy’) that resulted in removal of the patient’s uterus and ovaries (hysterectomy and bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy). [The patient, upset over this fact, refused to pay upon discharge. The doctor sued for recovery of charges and got a favorable ruling from the National Consumers' Commission. The patient appealed in the SC]. The consent form signed by the patient at the very beginning stated that the patient had been informed that the treatment to be undertaken is ‘diagnostic and therapeutic laparoscopy. Laparotomy may be needed’. The outcome of the case turned on the definition of ‘laparotomy’ – the word simply refers to opening the abdomen; so, in this instance, did it also imply consent to remove organs from the patient’s abdomen after it had been opened (as the doctor argued)? The court’s answer was in the negative and it emphasized that if that was indeed the case, the consent form ought to have read “”diagnostic and operative laparoscopy. Laparotomy, hysterectomy and bilateral salpingo-oopherectomy, if needed.”
It is a real life situation that has plagued many women who wanted their gynecological problems solved, and instead, ended up without their reproductive organs to the end of their days.
It really is in the discretion of the surgeon. The patient is unconscious, and may not be able to undergo another major surgery if the surgeon woke her up just in order to ask her whether she would like to have the foci of cancer, for example, preserved…
Now let’s reverse the situation. The consent only gave permission for some surgery and not for any radical surgery at all and let’s suppose that the surgeon visually found out the masses of cancerous tissue all over the uterus and abdomen? Wouldn’t he be neglecting his duty to cure if he just dully noticed that the patient is soon going to die but what the heck, there is no written consent, so let her wake up and then tell her the situation. Would she still be suing him for not operating properly on her?
The moral of the story is — you never know what will happen. And that is why I am always advocating avoiding hysterectomy if possible, not going for it like it’s a picnic… because it is not!
Filed under Hysterectomy, Laparoscopy, Laparotomy by Dusko Savic
