[MR] Re: Atlantia Digest, Vol 12,Breast Cancer petition

[Belphoebe]

Also, the drainage tubes will have to stay for more
than 24 hours.  I should know as I had to undergo the
procedure.  It is not a terribly uncomfortable thing,
just annoying.

Staying at the hospital for 24 hours will not
eliminate the tubes.  You will still go home with them
attached to you, but I agree in that it will give the
patient more time to recover.  (Having said that, in
some cases it is more comfy to go back home as opposed
to share your room with some other patient. 
Especially when said other patient has the nurses
running around and turning on the lights on you all
night.)  

Cheers,

Belphoebe

--- Karl von Lindenheim <lindenheim at cox.net> wrote:
> I work in the medical field and would just like to
> point out that drains
> from a mastectomy are often kept in place for
> several days to a week after
> surgery.  It is no great hardship to go home with
> them still attached.
> This said, it would certainly be preferable to stay
> at least 24 hours where
> one can receive proper care, rather than being
> discharged a mere few hours
> after surgery.
> Karl von Lindenheim
> 
> 
> It's about eliminating the
> > >"drive-through
> > >mastectomy" where women are forced to go home
> hours after surgery
> > >against
> > >the wishes of their doctor; still groggy from
> anesthesia and sometimes
> > >with
> > >drainage tubes still attached
> 
>
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