Thinking about next doc appointment....

I can't seem to get all this DVT crap off my mind. Its just too scary, and I truly think that all of this could have been avoided. I plan on telling my vascular doc this next week.

Let me preface the rest of my thoughts, with the fact that this is NOT the doctor who originally did the vein stripping. This is the doctor that happened to be on call the weekend I went to the ER. I like him. He's an honest guy, who looks me in the eye- which is important to me. Unlike the first doc, who never really looked me in the eye. Almost that my little stripping surgery was too little for the chief of surgery at the hospital! OK.. so this is what I plan on telling the nice doc when he comes in and gives me the usual "how are you feeling" spiel.. not in any particular order...

1) I am pissed off at all of this. I've had more pricks than a second hand dart board (and I'm talking about needles- not the other kind... for you sicko's out there).. Okay, I might leave out that saying, but you get the drift.

2) My CAT had surgery the day after I had the vein stripped.. he came home with antibiotics, and I didn't.

3) How hard would it have been to call in a perscription for antibiotics, when someone CALLS the service on the weekend with horrific pain and a fever?

4) I believe if I didn't have the infection, I wouldn't have wound up with the DVT... I accept that I had the hematoma- that was in the cards for me, but the infection could have been dealt with and been a non-issue, had the doc listened to me.

5) Now I have to worry the rest of my life about getting another DVT, and if I have another baby, I will have to shoot myself up again with blood thinners.

6) You need to give your PA, Alicia, a big raise. She was awesome.

I just need to get my thoughts in order. I won't be able to tell the original doc all this, but I believe that someone with an MD needs to hear it. I would not be nice at all if I told it to that first doc.