Chef Daddy Mike back in the Hospital Up-Date 1-31-2011

Hondo
Hondo Member Posts: 6,636 Member
edited March 2014 in Head and Neck Cancer #1
I just got off the phone with Mike; he is back in the hospital again. He was having some very bad pain and his blood pressure went to the roof. They did a C/T of his abdomen and found something you will not believe. He had a surgery some 9 years ago and it looks like they left some of the old bandages in side of him. He complained for years about the pain to his doctor but they would just say it is the wound healing. The doctors are not sure what they are going to do at this point, but sooner or later they will need to go in and remove the left over stuff.

Please keep him min prayer

Hondo

Comments

  • sweetblood22
    sweetblood22 Member Posts: 3,228
    #2
    ARE YOU KIDDING ME????!!
    ARE YOU KIDDING ME????!! This is ridiculous. He has been having problems for years they should have caught this long ago! I am ripping mad right now. Holy cow. Do you know if he has his cell? I'd like to call him tomorrow.
  • delnative
    delnative Member Posts: 450
    #3
    sweetblood22 said:

    ARE YOU KIDDING ME????!!
    ARE YOU KIDDING ME????!! This is ridiculous. He has been having problems for years they should have caught this long ago! I am ripping mad right now. Holy cow. Do you know if he has his cell? I'd like to call him tomorrow.

    Good Lord!
    That poor guy just can't get an even break -- unless grounds for a whopping big malpractice suit is an even break.
    Prayers are headed his way.

    --Jim in Delaware
  • Skiffin16
    Skiffin16 Member Posts: 8,305 Member
    #4
    Blockage
    I wonder if that's related at all with the blockage problems he's had....
  • Pam M
    Pam M Member Posts: 2,196
    #5
    What?!?
    Man - is this real, or a TV movie? Sorry he's back in the hospital - but at least one mystery is cleared up. Unbelievable.
  • kingcole42005
    kingcole42005 Member Posts: 178
    #6
    That's terrible, poor Mike.
    That's terrible, poor Mike. One of my Aunts woke up from a surgery and they had replaced the wrong hip. Unfortunately doctors are human and they make some pretty awful mistakes. I hope he gets well and starts feeling better.
  • miccmill
    miccmill Member Posts: 248
    #7
    kingcole42005 said:

    That's terrible, poor Mike.
    That's terrible, poor Mike. One of my Aunts woke up from a surgery and they had replaced the wrong hip. Unfortunately doctors are human and they make some pretty awful mistakes. I hope he gets well and starts feeling better.

    Speechless
    I work in a hospital, in education. I know the steps that are supposed to be taken to make sure this never happens. It's a detailed and complex process. Every single thing that's in the sterile field is counted and accounted for before, during and after the surgery, by more than one person.

    In order for this to happen, someone had to lie about the count either during or at closing.

    Absolutely shameful.

    I've also know surgeries to last 45 minute after they could've been done because the count wasn't coming up right. The entire room stops and looks for the missing item as well as calling for a portable xray of the open field. They don't close until they've found it and every count matches.

    This could explain alot of chronic stuff going on with Mike and the hope is that correcting this turns him on a healing path.
    Prayers for that.
  • Kimba1505
    Kimba1505 Member Posts: 557
    #8
    miccmill said:

    Speechless
    I work in a hospital, in education. I know the steps that are supposed to be taken to make sure this never happens. It's a detailed and complex process. Every single thing that's in the sterile field is counted and accounted for before, during and after the surgery, by more than one person.

    In order for this to happen, someone had to lie about the count either during or at closing.

    Absolutely shameful.

    I've also know surgeries to last 45 minute after they could've been done because the count wasn't coming up right. The entire room stops and looks for the missing item as well as calling for a portable xray of the open field. They don't close until they've found it and every count matches.

    This could explain alot of chronic stuff going on with Mike and the hope is that correcting this turns him on a healing path.
    Prayers for that.

    OMG!!
    I could echo everything Sweet wrote. Unbelievable. I am very supportive of doctors, and recognize thier humaness, but I agree with Delnative, this sounds like malpractice...perhaps on multiple levels.
    Hoping the best for him.
    Thanks for the update Hondo.
    Kim
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    #9
    Kimba1505 said:

    OMG!!
    I could echo everything Sweet wrote. Unbelievable. I am very supportive of doctors, and recognize thier humaness, but I agree with Delnative, this sounds like malpractice...perhaps on multiple levels.
    Hoping the best for him.
    Thanks for the update Hondo.
    Kim

    This comment has been removed by the Moderator
  • JUDYV5
    JUDYV5 Member Posts: 392
    #10
    I am total shock
    Can the poor guy not catch a break.
  • Scambuster
    Scambuster Member Posts: 973
    #11
    JUDYV5 said:

    I am total shock
    Can the poor guy not catch a break.

    Tragedy and a Crime
    I am stunned to hear yet another hurdle for our dear friend Mike. I am furious to hear this is yet another cock up by Doctors and amazed how one man can be inflicted repeatedly by malpractice.

    I'm sure Mike is more focused on surviving and recovery so he can be with his kids than taking doctors or hospitals to court but this is so wrong.

    All we can do is hope and pray he will find a truly caring team to get him through this one.

    Thoughts and prayer to Mike and his kids.

    Hondo & Sweets please keep us informed. Your close attention is greatly appreciated from all here.

    Scam
  • Hondo
    Hondo Member Posts: 6,636 Member
    #12
    Up-date on Mike 1-31-2011

    I spoke to Mike last night and they did some more testing and found that it is not left over stuff ( thanks goodness) but looks now to be that his intestines are twisted pretty bad in one spot. They are still not too positive as what to do about it. The plan today is for flushing him inside out and hope to get the knot undone.

    I will keep you all posted as I hear from Him.
    Hondo
  • larry447
    larry447 Member Posts: 22
    #13
    Hondo said:

    Up-date on Mike 1-31-2011

    I spoke to Mike last night and they did some more testing and found that it is not left over stuff ( thanks goodness) but looks now to be that his intestines are twisted pretty bad in one spot. They are still not too positive as what to do about it. The plan today is for flushing him inside out and hope to get the knot undone.

    I will keep you all posted as I hear from Him.
    Hondo

    Hi Hondo
    Sent you info on the swallow exercises. Check under my post of swallow exercise therapy. Thought i would try to reach you on this recent post by you.I don't know of any other way to contact you.
    Larry,
  • Hondo
    Hondo Member Posts: 6,636 Member
    #14
    larry447 said:

    Hi Hondo
    Sent you info on the swallow exercises. Check under my post of swallow exercise therapy. Thought i would try to reach you on this recent post by you.I don't know of any other way to contact you.
    Larry,

    Hi Larry
    I will send you a PM with my contact info

    Thanks Hondo

Discussion Boards