Aborted Shoulder Surgery

To My Dear Friends on the Blog Site:

On Wednesday at the Day Surgery Clinic, I had a big reaction to the anesthesia injection, a shot that was injected into the neck to deaden the pain for the shoulder in preparation for pre-surgery (The Block).

My diaphragm went into spasms, making it very difficult to breath with accompanying pain in the mid-section.

911 was called and I was taken a short distance to the Everett Providence Hospital Emergency Room. When the ER doctors were trying to unscramble or diagnose the problem --- I had kidney failure - Pneumonia - Pleurisy -- as (STAT) was flying all over the place with doctors scrambling to diagnose the problem.

I have a lot of confidence in these doctors, as they had not seen this type of reaction, nor were they familiar with any text-book examples I displayed. X-rays were taken. They were at a general loss as to why this happened. I was kept over-night in the Telemetry Ward for any more displays of heart, lungs, kidney symptoms of failure, etc.

As the anesthesia block wore off (15 hours later), all my body functions returned to normal. I was discharged and sent home. All tests showed a false positive in the diagnosis prossess, which leads back to the injection process??? (The HIPAA Law). I am aware of its existence, but have never felt that I have anything to hide medically.

I'm just glad to be back to normal and will re-schedule sometime after the holidays are over.

To all - Have a Merry Christmas and Prosperous Year coming in.

-- From the Officious - Dallas Adams