Hi, Jim,

So sorry about your horrible experience.  I didn't go through one as bad as
yours, but when I had surgery back in 2001, they gave me an anethesia that
knocked me out for 3 days - or at least that's what I remember (or not).
 My friends and family all swear that I was talking and seemingly
functional but those three days are forever wiped from my memory.  What was
a three-day planned stay turned out to be six days and I was pretty out of
things for a few weeks after that.   I will never ever voluntarily go
through back surgery again.

Kat

On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 1:23 PM, James Fee <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I am just coming out of a chapter of my life that has been the second most
> horrendous of
> them all.  On October 11th I had a cervical spinal fusion.  The surgeon
> noticed "considerable"
> swelling and left the interbation tube in place.  I was in ICU for three
> days when an attending
> took it upon himself to remove it.  My airway promptly swelled closed
> completely, I had to be
> reinterbated and I bleed from the nose and mouth.  After that I remained
> in a drug induced comma for 14 days.  I finally had to have a trach, and a
> feeding tube placed.  All the while (so
> I'm told by my wife) the nurses were running around trying to learn how to
> "treat" me for my
> cerebral palsy and were perturbed that I was on meds. for it, nor was I
> having therapy in a
> rehab facility.  I was supposed to be in the hospital for a total of 4
> days, I was actually there for 28 days.  I wasn't allowed to eat or drink
> ANYTHING by mouth, because tests "indicated" that I
> would aspirated EVERYTHING.  I was sent home with the feeding tube still
> in me, whereupon I
> took it upon myself to begin eating normally without any dire
> consequences.  The residual effect of all this is that one of my vocal
> cords is now paralysed and I don't know if I'll ever get it back.
>
> I'm curious to know if anyone else has encountered such ignorant nonsense?
>
> Thanks,
> Jim Fee
>
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