Don't really know where else to turn to for advice on this matter, so here goes: I'm scheduled to have a VSG procedure done on Monday, and in the past 24 hours, it has come to light that I wasn't on the surgeon's schedule for Monday. Their office has scrambled to fix everything, but my surgery was supposed to have been on the books for over a month now. The only reason they caught it in time is because the facility was scheduled, and the facility called the surgeon after the facility called me to confirm everything. I then received no less than 4 panicked calls from different people in the surgeon's office basically asking me about what they had originally scheduled. I basically had to tell them my date and time, that I had completed all my preop appointments, and I was, in fact, on the preop liquid diet he ordered currently. Not only that, but I'm self pay, mailed payment well over a week ago, and they are claiming they haven't received it yet while the facility and anesthesiologist have!

Needless to say, this has left me with a bit of an unsettled stomach even more than the liquid diet has! I really want/need this surgery to live a long, healthy life. I've got my finger on the button right now, and I'm in desperate need of some guidance. This is a major surgery, and the fact their office is a major clusterfuck doesn't exactly represent my surgeon very well. I have confidence in him, but that confidence has eroded fairly severely in the past 24 hours. Even this morning, more calls because they didn't schedule preoperative blood tests that I need to do ASAP. This has been a very long road leading up to next Monday, and it seems to all be unraveling at the last minute.

I've asked to have the surgeon call me directly so I am absolutely sure we're both on the same page. Maybe he can talk me down from the ledge. His office seems to be in complete disarray, and I want to be very clear to him that's unsettling to me given the gravity of what I'm supposed to be having on Monday morning. I don't blame the surgeon for his office's blunders, but I believe the people a professional chooses to hire are a direct reflection of their work. I would have heads rolling if I was their boss.

I'd love to hear a series of opinions on what you would do? Reschedule, cancel, find a new surgeon altogether, go ahead with it provided the surgeon calms my nerves a bit? My fiancée, while extremely supportive, is now trying to push me very hard to reconsider. She keeps telling me it's unnecessary, she's worried, etc. I just feel like I've been through the gauntlent and choosing the nuclear option right now would set me back quite a long time.

TL;DR - surgeon's office is full of halfwits and it's causing me to reconsider everything at the last minute.

For obvious reasons, I'm not going to reveal the surgeon's name now. Just hoping this all blows over into a big misunderstanding.

Edited August 21, 201411 yr by fatflyboy

How did this turn out? How are you? Did you have the surgery?

I say go with your gut instincts. If you don't have a peace about it now, then wait. This is too serious of a situation to go into it "hoping"" folks will have it together. I mean it's one thing to doubt based on your own innate fears but another to doubt based on your experience. Surgery is more than the doctor. Can you trust that his team will have your vital statistics right? That he is given the right information? Are they too hurried at this point? The doctor has to be able to trust his team before he performs an operation... And you do, too. Yes, you need to have a discussion with him if only to inform him about the situation. If you don't feel good about it like you did before this, then go to another doctor, or reschedule a later time to be assured nothing is overlooked.

Just a quick update...surgery went well. Everything went smoothly. My surgeon did a great job, the facility was wonderful, and my recovery is crawling along. Still pretty weak and gassy, but I've come to expect I'm right about where I should be on day 5.

Awesome. I'm glad you did and I'm hoping you have an uneventful recovery.

So glad to hear this!