ENDO Messages for June, 2007: Re: how to prepare for excision surgery.....AMBER

Re: how to prepare for excision surgery.....AMBER

From: ada (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue Jun 19 10:29:37 2007

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Can you tell how you went about fighting your insurance company in order to go to the CEC? My insurance said no and I really do not know how to start? Ada At Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Amber wrote: >
>Hi, I had excision at the CEC in February. I had to travel to Atlanta
>from VA. Luckily the flight was only a couple hours. I had a very good
>experience there and the results have been amazing, so it is defintley
>worth the traveling, etc. I had to fight my insurance company for 6
>months to go there, I had an HMO, so it can be done. I was not aware I
>would be doing the bowel prep, I had never done one before, so when they
>gave me the bag of goods to do that, I wasn't really prepared to spend
>all afternoon and night in the hotel room, that was the worst part for
>me, had I known I wouldn't have been so put off by it I am sure. The
>flight back wasn't so bad. The airport in Atlanta was a little rough. I
>brought two pillows the hospital gave me and sat on one in the
>wheelchair and put the other across my lap. After checking baggage,
>security,etc and getting to the gate I felt pretty bad. I took my pain
>meds right before I got on the plane again, and once the flight took off
>I was fine. When I got home I did sleep for several hours, traveling
>can be tiring even if you hadn't had surgery. My email is
>ambergail8778@hotmail.com if you have anymore questions, I would be
>happy to share anything with you. Good Luck!
>
>--
>Amber
>>>>>
>>>>>At Thu, 14 Jun 2007, endo wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I will be having excision surgery in a few weeks at the CEC in Atlanta,
>>>>>>GA. I just wondered if anyone has had excision surgery out there, what
>>>>>>did you do to prepare for surgery? I have heard that taking extra Vit C
>>>>>>is helpful and my reflexologist recommended bathing in a little liquid
>>>>>>arnica. Also, I will be traveling to GA from IL and wondered if anyone
>>>>>>has traveled a far distance to have this type of surgery??? If so, is
>>>>>>there anything you brought from home you were glad you had with you? Or
>>>>>>is there something you wished you would have brought to make your
>>>>>>recovery a little more comfortable?? Any advice would be greatly
>>>>>>appreciated. Thank you!! :)
>>>>
>>>>--
>>>>Find an endo specialist in the ERC's EndoDocs group:
>>>>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EndoDocs/
>>>>
>>>>Try an excellent endo support group:
>>>>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/erc/
>>>>
>>>>Info on pain management:
>>>>http://www.painfoundation.org/
>>>>
>>--
>>Find an endo specialist in the ERC's EndoDocs group:
>>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EndoDocs/
>>
>>Try an excellent endo support group:
>>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/erc/
>>
>>Info on pain management:
>>http://www.painfoundation.org/
>>

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Ada

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