What Risk.

[KateLMead]

My sister in law had micro surgery to remove her gallbladder four years ago.. Sine that time she has suffered with terrible stomach pains.. She has had a constant infection in her belly button with it oozing pus.. She paid privately for scans nothing was revealed Last week she went back again to her doctor who on poking into her naval discovered a stitch that had remained in the same spot for over four years.. Antibiotics after antibiotics with no lasting results.. My brother has been unwell with ulcerative colitis for a number of years and my sister in law and he are unlike me not ones to complain.. He has just undergone an operation on his neck.. The colitis goes on and on.
How can my sister in law have such a problem that is in all aspects ignored by the very same doctors who operated on her, and the same goes for her local GP who has taken over four years to find that stitch remaining in her belly button and who still feeds her antibiotics after antibiotics.. Safe in Their hands"??? I don't think so when the NHS and bad surgery has left her with more pain discomfort than before they operated on her..

[cruiser2]

Kate,
Sorry to hear about the problem your SIL had after her gall bladder operation.Just another example of how the standard in the NHS is going down. Mrs.e had hers out over 20 years ago. Was back at work after six weeks. She had complained for several years about a pain in her stomach
It was only found when she went for to a well woman screening programme. The consultants said her gallbladder was full of small stones. Only has a small scar and has not had any problems since. It was done privately as I was in BUPA through the firm I worked for.

[KateLMead]

So glad your wife had a good outcome cruiser.. My sister in law went privately for check up's and X rays, nothing revealed.. Poor lass looks after every one else but herself. I might add that I would raise the roof were I in her position.. "Not that it does any good as I discovered when I took a case out against the doctors for six years of medical neglect who have left my daughter with severe breathing problems due to botched surgery.. The same hospital where my sister in law was treated (Bedford) ignored my daughters problems for those six long years as the goitre got bigger and bigger.. "No problem" they said.. "Nothing to worry about your thyroid is within normal"" However following my taking her to London, surgery was recommended urgently, this problem had been going on during her late 30's they finally operate when she was 45 and that goitre that was nothing to worry about had spread from the right side of her neck to the left and down to her breast bone.. they landed up Removing her thyroid and caused severe damage as they chopped away to remove the mass that had spread so dangerously.... She has to wear a disk, has been offered a tracheotomy.. She is petrified and refuses further surgery. She is now an invalid she feels with no future with no come back...And my poor sister in law is in the same position.

[pederito1]

Lots of sympathy for your SIL, Kate and her gall bladder but its removal might just have saved her life. Bit surprised that the stitch bad as it was to leave it caused so much of a problem, maybe it is just a case of the antibios losing their bite as is happening too often now. Girls stick all sorts of things in their tummy holes without usually causing problems. Sorry too about your daughter`s problems which you mentioned before. I did not realise it had spread so much and should have been reduced by Ra therapy before being operated on if indeed an operation was essential. My mother had a similar condition and fought off the quacks who wanted to operate. She recovered. I think anyone with a problem that might require surgery
should be researched very thoroughly, so easy now with the net and books that describe every procedure in detail and the risks weighed up. I have
incidentally operated on a toe this morning which had been very painful for some days - no not gout funnily enough I may have succeeded because
it seems easier now but I will let you know if I get septicaemia

[KateLMead]

Truly hope that you don't develop scepticaemia pederito, what a worry... I have always steered clear of taking antibiotics but when needs must!
My SIL says she is in as much pain as she was before the operation.. Not sure about this micro surgery or the doctors these days who administer it..