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Show 218 search her disease and certainly does not present the results of that research to her doctors, does not care about patient rights (and never, ever asks to see the hospital's version of patient rights), does not ever get angry or depressed about her condition or treatment, and - perhaps most important - never gets a very rare disease in the first place. Of course, I am considering, a patient with a very rare disease might redeem herself as being "good" if she donates her thoroughly used up and experimented-on body to science at her untimely death. I have stopped my typing at these thoughts popping into my mind. I had no idea I was quite this angry. There are summer birds singing outside the window and I roll my chair over to open it for a minute. I need to breathe in freshness. "Here at [the regional hospital] the troubleshooting protocol is immediately begun as a one-hour outpatient procedure... [I then quickly received] the corrective surgery to have the catheter replaced..." And I was home days later!!!! Not weeks later. Not months later. Days later!!!! And I have been home an incredible, unprecedented nine months!!!! The writing of this letter is cathartic, I am thinking, and I will delete the exclamation points and clean up any emotional syntax before printing the letter and sending it off. "In anticipation of the last surgery at [your teaching hospital], I was taken off my oral Coumadin and placed on IV heparin...and waited for two weeks..." |