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   simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 11-May-2025 03:07:48 JST simsa03
   Feels like I git a small retinal detachment. Off to the eye clinic.
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     tinydoctor (tinydoctor@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 12-May-2025 04:38:58 JST tinydoctor

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     @simsa03 Feels? Small? What does the doc say?

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     simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 14-May-2025 03:59:33 JST simsa03

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     It's Tueday evening and I just returned from the hospital, three days later. My suspicion was correct: A hole in the retina with its hem already detached. Went there to the ER on Saturday night, got first inspection 3 hours later, eye doctor unsure whether it can still be treated by laser or needs a full-blown surgery via pars-plana-vitrectomy instead—dismemberment of the vitreous body, substitution of the aqueous humour with gas, air, or some silicone oil, to press the retina at its place, with possible side complications like further detachments—so I was checked-in overnight. On Sunday the senior physician opted for laser treatment, and I got 397 shots in my eye. Next examination on Monday it was decided that although the lasering seemed to have worked, there should be some icing in the area near the nose where the laser couldn't reach properly. If that works, fine; if not, the senior physician suggests the pars-plana-vitrectomy, Which I will then decline, opting rather for half-blindndess. We'll see after the next consultation come next Monday.
     
     The shit thing is: The surgeon whom I consulted for the final examination on the success of the surgery of the right eye on Thursday (before Staurday's ER) didn't heed my remarks that I was seeing black dots flying across my left eye. Instead he said I'm fit to work again. Had he reacted properly, then the whole thing could have been lasered far easier, said the doctor in the ER.
     
     Yes, I do hate cataract surgeries. And idiots posing as master physicians when they are nothing more than fricking amateurs. (Like the rest of the hospital. Unbelievable the shit that happened all around.)
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     tinydoctor (tinydoctor@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-May-2025 22:37:38 JST tinydoctor

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     @simsa03 You are making me feel better about the result of the "retinal peel" on my left eye. I did have little black bats floating around in there for a bit, but they settled out or roosted somewhere, they're not flapping about in my field of vision anymore. I did have my aqueous humor replaced, so I have no floaters in my left eye. Still have floaties in the right eye, because the cataract surgery does not require it. But wow, my American docs are more competent than your German docs?

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     tinydoctor (tinydoctor@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-May-2025 22:46:10 JST tinydoctor

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     @simsa03 "Require it" that is, doesn't require replacing the aqueous humor. I told Mrs. Dr. Omed of your plight, and that you'd rather go half-blind than get the recommended procedure, she said, "That's what a 6th (11-12yo) grader would say."

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     simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 03:26:29 JST simsa03

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     She's right.
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     simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 07:51:02 JST simsa03

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     I won't generalize but with two doctors, the surgeon who did the removal and one of eye doctors on duty doing the examiniations on Sunday to Tuesday, I'd pretty much claim that. I mean, would you count as professionalism:
     
     • Mislabeling of the patient's name and identification in the transfer papers to the laser unit
     • placing the retinal hole in the wrong area of the eye in documentation and epiciris so that other doctors cannot find it at first
     • calling for and documentating a local anaesthetic when the senior doctor ordered a general anaesthetic
     • getting the epicrisis wrong
     • needing three hours to get the epicrisis papers ready?
     
     Would you call a care staff professionial that
     • after surgery needs three times being asked before bringing another blanket (not even wrapped in a duvet cover)
     • that forgets to apply medication according to the medication plan?
     
     I surely don't trust this clinic and I'm in deed a bit scared how they may botch my eye should they go for a vitrectomy. Not because they would do that on intent but because of carelessness. So yes, a lot of German doctors and staff are shit, and yes, I feel like a 6th grader when I don't see a way to intervene when at the same time I seem to be required to constantly monitor the quality of all staff activities just to ensure that I'm going to be treated safely. Mrs. Dr. Omed is not wrong but perhaps she could have distinguished between me "talking seriously" and me "talking literally". My regards to her anyway.
     
     True, this is a big medical facility, lots of staff, doctors, technicians, support employees, patients, visitors, people come and go. Mistakes can and will happen frequently and people will have to wait endlessly. That's part of big machines churning. But this facility does have a bad reputation, not so much with regard to its medical unit but with regard to its staff in care and administration. As these keep blaming the medical staff.
     
     We'll see what happens next.