Medical Malpractice

[johnk_]

I almost choked myself to death in my mother's womb with my umbilical cord, but the doctors got us to the ER quickly, and I was completely OK, I think.

[Fe 26]

Man, all the goth emo jokes that come to mind.

[arjue]

I almost choked myself to death in my mother's womb with my umbilical cord, but the doctors got us to the ER quickly, and I was completely OK, I think.

Not to alarm you or anything, but thats how alot of... "retardation" occurs.

[Jeremy]

Cowdisease, yeah, medical staffs are quite amazing. I'm always stunned when I see these new reports of how premies are being born earlier and lighter, with few health problems evident at the time. I also delt with pneumonia a few times after being born, which didn't help matters either.

[Cowdisease]

I also delt with pneumonia a few times after being born, which didn't help matters either.

I repeat,

YOU CANNOT KILL TEH JEREMY!!!

[Jeremy]

Or the Grimace.

[Spammy]

My father is a doctor as well.

I was 10 (23 now) when he went to med school and saw him go through the whole process. So I have more respect for the profession than most.

Every now and again mal practice talks get brought up, I can't remember if he has faced any.
But the people that get to me are the people that complain about tests. A couple years ago I was having upper gi problems so I went through a bunch of tests..turns out is was mental/stress related, but it helped to know that.

I guess for all the morons that think they don't need tests we can just slice them open so the doctors can take a good look at them

[Fe 26]

Stupid people bitch about the test.

People should be more angry with medicine companies, the government, and how our current healthcare system is a meld of both the shitty factors of socialist and capitalistic medicine, and less angry with Doctors.

But that is probably asking too much. It is easier to bitch about something than to look beyond what is right in your face.

[Dolemite]

She was a "runner".

Beat me to it.

[Dolemite]

Astro, they're mainly all to being born four and a half months premature. I had incubation that would later be known to cause retinal detachments, which is what happened to my right eye (fully), and my left eye, which could then, and likely could now, be come detached, or reattach without much provocation.

This conclusion was drawn after the latest detachment was noticed in June of 2002, two days before it would have become fully detached, according to my opthamologist. Luckily, I had a last-minute scleral buckle procedure done the next day, which through some miracle, actually worked.

That whole day in the hospital was an interesting one, and allowed me to realize how lucky I was to have gotten nearly 19 years of sight out of that eye (at that time), especially when an infant was going to have two of the surgeries I was going to have, with one having a 50/50 chance of working. That infant stopped breathing on the operating table, and was luckily revived. I just kept thinking about how this poor girl didn't even have a chance to really see life, and that I was fortunate to have gotten what I got out of the eye, if my number was up with it, it was.

The premature birth also led to some other eye issues, like glaucoma and cataracts, that are kept under control whenever possible. Luckily, the cataracts are only in the blind eye, which never grew after birth, leaving me with a neat-looking small eye. I'm also quite lucky to not have HIV, due to needing a minimum of four blood transfusions every day, which left some nice scars all over my hands and arms. I also clinically died a number of times, four were documented, and the rest were just the nurses coming it to revive me whenever I stopped showing vital signs. That incubation could only do so much, and while it cost me a good chunk of my sight, it did allow me to live, which still astounds me all things considered.

There are some other things that cropped up as well, but they've worked in my favor, like not having enough fat cells to actually get fat, which has given me a permanent six pack. Damn the luck on that one, hehe. The arthritis problems I developed about ten or so years ago were also attributed to the premature birth, but haven't been too big a problem so far.

Shit. I knew you were fucked up but I didn't know it was THIS bad. It's amazing you have such a positive attitude about it.

At least you have abs. You have no idea how hard they are to get for the rest of us with working eyeballs and all.

So, how does all this affect you in your day-to-day life? Are you ever going to be able to work a job or drive a car? If not, where do you get all this dough to buy games/wrestling videos/etc? Do you still need blood transfusions?