Re: OT - GROSS GYNOCOLOGIST DETAILS

January 10, 2003

> I would be going " EEWWW " as well and telling my dr " Not on your life " .

No, no - you guys don't get it!

I CAN'T refuse all " reasonable " attempts at circumventing a surgery. The

Ontario system just will not allow it. See, our health care is funded by

the government, and the government is not putting any money into the heath

care system. Our local ER closes at 10pm now because they don't have the

money to stay open overnight. This, even though twice now people have died

en route to the nearest ERs (each more than half an hour away) who might

have lived if our ER was open to treat them.

Surgery is WAY expensive, so it is provincially mandated that EVERY

possibility must be exhausted before you go under the knife.

Take my c-section. Two MONTHS before 's due date, the doctor told me

that I had that condition where the baby's head is too big to pass into the

birth canal. As the date neared, he NEVER dropped, my cervix NEVER

changed - as far as the cervix was concerned, there was no baby in there,

because there was NO pressure from him dropping. I never had Braxton Hicks

contractions, not once. I had preeclampsia, and was hospitalized twice in

the last months. It was a GIVEN that I would not deliver this child

naturally.

BUT, the day of the section, they admitted me at 5am. They pumped pitocin

into me for SIX HOURS. I didn't have one single contraction. was

still not dropped. They put that gel on my cervix. NOTHING. Not dilated,

not effaced, NOTHING. This was FIVE DAYS after my due date. People came in

and 'massaged' the cervix. Which hurt like hell. NOTHING.

FINALLY, at noon they admitted they had to cut me open, after trying every

single solitary thing they could to induce me. My doctor TOLD me they knew

it wouldn't work, but that policy insists that they try anyway in order to

justify the expense of an operating theatre!

INSIDE the operating room is a whole 'nother nightmare story.

Jacquie

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