CONSENT FORM - worried, need advise

[Guest guest]

I am still not clear on this, and my MYO. is coming in Feb.

**Is it enough to write the following statement on the hospital admissions

form, as well as the informed consent documents before surgery ?

" I DO NOT WANT A HYSTERECTOMY UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES OTHER THAN THOSE

NECESSARY TO SAVE MY LIFE " .

AND if they DO allow me to write the above on the forms, does this mean i

should feel more secure, and that I should go ahead and sign the consent form ?

My doc. may tell me he can't do the surgery unless I sign the consent form.

**Someone suggested I could also write my doc. a week before surgery, and say

" While it is a technical requirement that i sign the consent form, we have an

understanding that you will not convert to a hysterectomy except to save my life

and my signature on the consent form is subject to that agreement. " " Please

notify me in writing if you are not agreeable to that. "

But maybe the above statement is ALL I NEED to write on the forms, and I could

give the statement to my doc. at the time of surgery instead. I don't know

exactly what to do , or the timing of it.... I don't want to alienate my doc,

but I want to feel secure too.... i want him to know that i trust him, since he

does lots of myo's and is happy to give me a myo. I don't think he has ever

converted from a myo. to a hyster. PLEASE ADVISE. I am very worried..

[Guest guest]

-you should be safe doing it the way you plan.

-- In uterinefibroids , wrote:

> I am still not clear on this, and my MYO. is coming in Feb.

> **Is it enough to write the following statement on the hospital

admissions form, as well as the informed consent documents before

surgery ?

>

> " I DO NOT WANT A HYSTERECTOMY UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES OTHER THAN

THOSE NECESSARY TO SAVE MY LIFE " .

>

> AND if they DO allow me to write the above on the forms, does

this mean i should feel more secure, and that I should go ahead and

sign the consent form ?

> My doc. may tell me he can't do the surgery unless I sign the

consent form.

> **Someone suggested I could also write my doc. a week before

surgery, and say " While it is a technical requirement that i sign

the consent form, we have an understanding that you will not convert

to a hysterectomy except to save my life and my signature on the

consent form is subject to that agreement. " " Please notify me in

writing if you are not agreeable to that. "

>

> But maybe the above statement is ALL I NEED to write on the forms,

and I could give the statement to my doc. at the time of surgery

instead. I don't know exactly what to do , or the timing of

it.... I don't want to alienate my doc, but I want to feel secure

too.... i want him to know that i trust him, since he does lots of

myo's and is happy to give me a myo. I don't think he has ever

converted from a myo. to a hyster. PLEASE ADVISE. I am very

worried..

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