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 > > ----------------------- > > To change your mail settings or leave the C-PALSY list, go here: > > http://listserv.icors.org/**SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?SUBED1=c-**palsy<http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?SUBED1=c-palsy> > ----------------------- To change your mail settings or leave the C-PALSY list, go here: http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?SUBED1=c-palsy