😠😠😠 So angry

[Bronn]

Operation postponed 😠😠😠😠 anesthetist taken ill. I'd gotten myself worked up ready for this and now it's not happening. Home for me today 😢

[Horsewhisper]

Hey Bronn, so sorry to here that, how frustrating for you. It’s not just the physical organisation in getting ready to go in, but the mental preparation too. What a let down for you. I hope you get re-scheduled soon xx

[Bronn in reply to Horsewhisper]

Thank you. 💐

[EOLHPC]

😟 OH NO...Am TOTALLY with horsewhisper: this feels GHASTLY......NHS .neurosurgery did this to me late last spring: I was prepped: things organised @ home for the year of recovery etc ...neurosurg. phoned to cancel the day before op...he promised I’d stay at the top of his list...he was true to his word! I hope your medics reschedule VVV SOON

❤️🍀❤️🍀❤️🍀 Coco

[Bronn in reply to EOLHPC]

Thank you, it took a lot of mental preparation and all for nothing,as I suffer with panic attacks and a fear of men. Thank you ❤️ 💐

[EOLHPC in reply to Bronn]

Yes...this is truly v hard...my overwhelming anxiety is always here...I manage as best I can 1 day @ a time.... but it’s v scary....thank goodness for this WONDERFUL forum...we’re all here, including me, right by your side 🍀❤️

[Bronn in reply to EOLHPC]

Thank you 💐

[Roarah]

I am so sorry about this. Hang in there and I hope you get back on the schedule ASAP.

[Bronn in reply to Roarah]

It's hard but I've no other choice 🙄 The doctor told me this morning the longer I wait the worse it'll get, and I'm likely to need an op stitching my privates with ligament from my leg as its dropped and will drop more. Thank you anyway 💐

[Bronn in reply to Roarah]

Thank you, I have to telephone them on Friday to see if they can give me a date. If they can't I just have to wait. 🤞 Because I need this done ASAP. I am very grateful for all the support from here, many thanks to everyone 💐💐

[MEGS53]

Ooooh no! How awful for you. Hope it's re-scheduled very soon

[Bronn in reply to MEGS53]

Thank you 💐

[Bronn in reply to MEGS53]

Thank 💐

[Bronn in reply to MEGS53]

Thank you

[Bronn in reply to MEGS53]

I do too, my husband is going to Jersey the week after Easter for his sister's wedding. He won't go if I'm not recovered enough for him to be happy leaving me with my son. That's if I've had the op before Easter 😬 Thank you 💐

[MEGS53 in reply to Bronn]

I have everything crossed for you!! xxx

[Bronn in reply to MEGS53]

Yes I'm hoping so too. Thank you 💐

[Lupiknits]

I’m tearing my hair out for you x

[GlasgowHen]

Oh gosh, so sorry to hear this. Last year I had a big op and I know how psyched up you get beforehand and while waiting to to theatre on the day in particular.Your anger is understandable. Really hope they get you in again quickly. Maybe next time if not contraindicated ask for a pre med. they offered me a sleeping tablet the night before as I was like a caged animal pacing the corridors. I refused but in hindsight I should have taken it.

All the best to you and I will keep everything crossed you don’t have too long to wait

[Hidden]

You poor thing. I too went through this with what was meant to be a routine cholecystectomy - but turned out not to be routine at all. Mine was postponed just the once by a week - I walked into the surgical ward all prepped only to be told to go back home and wait. It was terrible.

It was a small island hospital so only one theatre and one scrub team - all last minute emergencies knocked out any routine procedures such as mine.

This was over 4 years ago but I still recall the mental havoc of the postponement well. Hopefully you will be prioritised now and it will work very well. Meanwhile big empathic hugs. X

[svfarmer]

Oh so sorry really hope you get a new appointment soon- how frustrating x

[panda2]

Oh no!!!! This is awful and devastating and it halts everything in your world, especially the first few days. The emotional toll is unexpectedly enormous. I am so sorry you are going through this.

Like some of the others have so empathetically responded, I have been in your shoes too and very recently. And I simply burst into tears with the sheer distress of it and those tears didn't fully stop for a few days. My major surgery slotted for November 23 -- for which I had been waiting a year and for which a friend had already come all the way from Canada(!) in order to help -- was cancelled. Not 20 hours before. It was devastating for not only me, but my friend (and her family she had left in Canada) and my poor husband who also would have to go through this all over again. And with our conditions, we also have medications we have to go off, so old symptoms come back and those preparations inside and all the outer world things. The friends and family we stress out and line up for duties-- it's hard to get that back for a second time! My surgery was rescheduled for Dec 19 -- so Christmas -- and it meant very few were as able to help in the way they would have. The after-effects are huge and go on a long time.

I totally and completely empathise. It's a truly awful position to be in and the worries about things getting worse are very real and valid.

Sending you a great big hug!

Panda x