Roger's surgery (fwd)

[Noelle <noelle>]

 > From: Jill <http://www.gmail.com/~j>
 > Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2018 07:04:32 -0700
 > 
 > Roger had a very successful surgery yesterday with local anesthetic.
 > Even though his surgeon wants everyone to stay only 2 nites in
 > hospital ( think he is paranoid about getting staph and then MRSA) I
 > called our health plan after looked at Medicareâ??s website
 > and 3 nights minimum required to get assisted living nursing care
 > after, so he will stay 3 nights and hopefully will go to Spring Lake
 > Village very close to where we live for a few more days or a little
 > longer.
 > 
 > He had no pain after the surgery for the first time in many months.
 > He had lost about 25lbs since condition started â?? just not
 > hungry and too weak on narcotics and his physical condition to eat
 > much. He was already really hungry for first time after the
 > surgery. Hope not much pain will come back after anesthetic
 > completely wears off. He was told to expect pain and doesnâ?
 > ?t look like his orthopedist gives narcotics at all â??
 > he still has plenty from his PCP â?? in Sutter Health plan,
 > the PCP does all the prescribing unless get from a Pain Clinic.  I
 > learned from my experience at Santa Rosa Memorial/St Jos Health and
 > one of their PCPs that the Catholic hospitals do not have the same
 > patient centered policies that Sutter does.  Their Annadel
 > Physicianâ??s group went bankrupt last year and were going
 > to merge into Meritage which started as group for Marin IPA but
 > Meritage backed out or they backed out after something happened with
 > Meritage investigating them for something â?? it is online
 > where I learned about.
 > 
 > I was there when the anesthesiologist came in to talk to him before
 > the surgery and nurse there â?? they wanted to give him pain
 > injection before going into surgery of â??cocktail that
 > works together for pain of Tylenol, gabapentin and
 > Celebrexâ??. I said no because Celebrex the strongest NSAID
 > is dangerous for heart patients and contraindicated when on aspirin
 > therapy, and Roger already was having very high BP after stopping
 > gabapentin. The male nurse who was delightful and is from a similar
 > background to ours and in his 40s, after I said none of those drugs
 > had worked for Roger for pain, said they were scientifically tested
 > for helping pain, which I know from Rogerâ??s own
 > experiences being prescribed all of them (he was prescribed Mobic,
 > generic meloxicam, that none helped his pain, and know untrue because
 > gabapentin never tested for general pain, plus all I have learned
 > from Pain News Network, an article of the interview of Dr Howard
 > Fields, head of neurology at UCSF, Dr Lynn Websterâ??s
 > website, and pharmacist Joel Graedon and wifeâ??s website.
 > 
 > Love, Jill