The surgery went well today and I'm VERY glad it's over with.
The surgery took less than 30 min. I was given a general anesthesia so was glad I was totally out for the surgery. I haven't seen the incision yet as it's wrapped but I sure am bruised around it.
I had a great anesthesiologist today who found my vein on the first try! I was happy about that! I was dreading the idea that I might get stuck several times today.
I got my dr. to send me a prescription for EMLA for my first infusion on Monday with the new Port. At first he didn't want to send out a prescription but after my Infusion center called him on my behalf he did call it in.
Now I'm hoping that my 2008 will be MUCH better than my 2007......and I hope y'all's will be too!!!!! HUGS to y'all!!!

I am so happy it went successfully. You must be so relieved. Now you can relax.

How come your doctor didn't want to send over the prescription? But then he did so after the infusion center called him.....????

I'm confused.

Melody

Hi Mel!
Yep I'm very glad the surgery is over with!
I'm not sure why my dr. didn't want to send a prescription for the EMLA.....he gives me prescriptions for anything else......he wanted the surgeon to give me the prescription. Luckily the Infusion center stuck up for me. I didn't want to have to keep getting the presciption from the surgeon who I never knew before this week. DOCTORS!! They can drive ya nuts!!

Glad you did ok,those Dr's are goffy. It's you do it no you,hmmm wonder
why we are nervous...I forgot did they change what you were doing
at school???? This should make everything easier,I'm glad it's done.
Sue

After this is all over, I expect to be hearing you sing your version of 'I Did It My WAY!' loud enough for me to hear it all the way on the East Coast....
The Emla Cream is brilliant..thank you to whoever suggested it {honestly I'd forgotten that part] and it does make it much easier for many...Next step? aside from the bruising and the [absolute] need to take a shower [just because you can't] is to keep us all up on how the next infusions go...when IS the next one. Smart about the prescription as well.

I am relieved it went soo well! I was getting worried not hearing from you. But, that you are posting complete sentences after being under general a...Well YOU are definitely tougher than I'd be at this point!

GOOD NEWS! I needed it! Thank you!!!!!!!'s - j

Rox:

I just looked up EMLA and it says it's used on babies for circumcisions.

I'm just wondering what you use it for? I know it's some kind of topical anaesthetic, right??

mel

you'd have to pay out of pocket for it.

Isn't that just typical...doctors who won't take responsibility for your pain, or comfort....

Mel, Emla is an anesthetic cream that is used on the skin prior to "procedures".
Yes for baby boys, but also when you have a derm appoint and need a skin tag cut off, or a mole removed, etc. It is also used 1 hr before blood draws, in children who need needle sticks/biopsies etc. There is absolutely no reason for a doctor to balk at ordering this.

http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi...ournalCode=dsu

Ela Max 4% is OTC. It came out during a period when Emla was off the market for a while. FDA required special safety packaging and Emla took time to comply. It was a big hassle because patients at home with feeding tubes use it too, and they didn't want to pay for Ela Max... I had lots of complaints then.

I'll assume that means you're not in too much discomfort (and, as dahlek says, you're writing complete sentences . . .)

Let's hope this will make your infusions a much easier procedure in the future.

Hi. Yeah I am so happy for you. I hope you are feeling better too cause I know these procedures can also drain one. That is annoying about the doc but he fears liability probably. Hopefully it won't be an issue and the surgery doc will be good about it. Many hugs

Mrs. D.

Thanks much for explaining about EMLA. The odd thing is that I've had several skin tags cut off (16 at one time), YEARS AGO by the way.

The doctor just rubbed some alcohol and used a little pair of snipping scissors, and just cut them off. Then he told me, "some times I put rubber bands around the skin tags which cut off the blood supply and they fall off by themselves".

And more recently (last year), I went to this horrible dermotologist (who had the personality of a flea), and I told him I had the cyst on the side of my nose.

Not only didn't he use any creme on me, he didn't even numb the area. I dont' remember if he used an alchohol, but I will never forget what he did.

I wasn't even sitting on his examination table. He did this so fast, I didn't have time to protest. I was sitting in a chair, and he approached me with this burning thing in his hand and he just burned away the cyst. He kept slicing it a few times, then he put a bandaid on it, and told me "in a few days, it will form a scab and fall off.

It did exactly what he said it would do.

I also remember showing him the little spot on my left hand. It gave the appearance of a burn but I knew that I did not burn my hand.

I asked him "what is this? and he said "oh, it's a burn". and I said "no it's not". And he said 'i have no idea, but here I'll give you some creme, and I believe he gave me some topical steroid cream (a little sample), and told me to rub it in. It did absolutely nothing.

Because I couldn't stand this doctor, the next week I went to another doctor (a dermotological cancer specialist) who is on my plan. I showed him my nose, he said it was fine, I showed him my hand and he looked at it and said to me "do you know how to go on the internet?" and I said 'of course". and he wrote down 'Granuloma Annulare'. (I'll never forget that). He told me to go home and look it up.

He said 'that's exactly what that is, some people call that RINGS.

He then "froze it", and told me "it would fall off but there might be a shadow left over.

I went home, looked up GRANULOMA ANNULare, and almost died when I saw what some people have on their bodies and I said "oh my god, is that going to happen to me??"

Well, guess what happened. The thing vanished. You can look at my hand and you would never know there was a lesion on the left hand. After he froze it, it scabbed, fell off, and there was a shadow. I used to put cover up on the little shadow. Well, it eventually vanished.

Absolutely mind boggling. It also amazes me that one doctor said "i don't know what it is, and the second doctor said "I know exactly what that is".

How the heck can two doctors be dermatologists and one doesn't know what Granuloma Annulare is and the other one recognizes it right away.

I wouldn't go back to the first guy if you paid me. Absolutely no personality. Treated me as if I wasn't even in the room.

Yuck.