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[rebcouncill 1]

Hi everyone! I am new here!

I had my surgery scheduled for August 15 and then due to the surge in Covid, it was canceled. It is now rescheduled to Sept 14! I am hoping it sticks!!

[lizonaplane 1,613]

I hope you are able to get the surgery! I am scheduled for 13Sep. I am hoping COVID doesn't cancel mine.

[rebcouncill 1]

I hope you get to have yours too!! Where are you located?

[lizonaplane 1,613]

I'm outside of Boston. Our numbers have increased a lot, but they're still lower than a lot of the country because we have higher vaccination rates.

[rebcouncill 1]

I am in Houston...we had some free standing ERs close so their nurses and doctors could go to the major hospitals....it is crazy!!

[lizonaplane 1,613]

4 minutes ago, rebcouncill said:

I am in Houston...we had some free standing ERs close so their nurses and doctors could go to the major hospitals....it is crazy!!

That's terrible. I used to work at MD Anderson occasionally in research but I haven't been since before the pandemic

[PolkSDA 116]

Hang in there. At least you have a new scheduled date. When my surgery was cancelled in April of 2020, there was nothing even proposed, let alone tentatively scheduled as a new date.

We as a society were freaking out (toilet paper hoarding, nightly BLM protests, riots)... no one knew what the endgame was going to be, and there I was being told by my surgical team that I still had to keep from gaining weight for an unknown period of time or risk being booted from the program. As a lifelong overeater, lemme tell you that stress eating most certainly is real... especially with society seemingly falling to pieces around you and also having to manage a team learning to work from home for the foreseeable future.

tl;dr: Smile, it could be worse.

Edited August 30, 2021 by PolkSDA

[GooseyGirl 68]

On 08/30/2021 at 13:11, lizonaplane said:

I'm outside of Boston. Our numbers have increased a lot, but they're still lower than a lot of the country because we have higher vaccination rates.

I’m in Boston too and getting my surgery on 9/13!! I think we’ll be okay despite covid rising, I don’t think they’ll cancel us! Are you going through MGH?

[lizonaplane 1,613]

28 minutes ago, GooseyGirl said:

I’m in Boston too and getting my surgery on 9/13!! I think we’ll be okay despite covid rising, I don’t think they’ll cancel us! Are you going through MGH?

Yep! Dr. Hutton.

[vikingbeast 987]

Surgery twin! My date is 9/14. I went in for my pre-surgical tests today (barium swallow—WHICH IS DISGUSTING BY THE WAY, ugh—EKG, chest X-ray, and bloodwork) and asked all the folks I interacted with. They said while the hospital is busy, it's not nearly like any of the previous surges, so they're optimistic that elective surgeries will continue. I just need COVID case counts to stay at or below where they're at now please!