Reply #26: I had a double mastectomy

[undergroundpanther]

outpatient. It was not so bad. I didn't need any painkillers,because it just wasn't all that bad.The drains didn't hurt either.They were inconvenient.I made two little pockets I could pin inside my shirt,to hold the drains made it a snap to tend to them and keep them out of the way.. I could call my doc anytime. I had one incident,I caught my moms cold a week after surgery,I was ok until the second night of the cold,I woke up coughing hard at 3 am,So I held a pillow to my chest sat up and coughed.. and suddenly I felt blood flowing. I had coughed and dislodged a blood clot, it looked scary,I called my doc right away,she asked me questions and by my answers she knew it was a clot,and that being dislodged was actually a good thing.Soon the bleeding slowed and stopped and it went back to the usual yellowish fluids.It was a pain in the ass to get the clot out of the drain bulb my sink looked like part of a murder scene set from CSI.. a day later the drain just fell out,this happened the day before I was to get them out. I called my doc, she said don't worry about it ,It did not hurt,felt gross but no pain.

I think if there are alot of complications,cancer pain etc. Yeah impatient is a good idea. But for me inpatient would have been overkill,because I could handle the drains and such.
I don't think ALL mastectomies should be done outpatient, but some I think could be done that way and still be safe. I think it should be a case by case basis.But yeah the insurance pigs are not about case by case concerns they are about profit and profit is no way to judge what kind of treatment someone needs..or does not need.
I wish there were no insurance companies profiting off sickness or healthcare.I hate the fucking profit Pigs.