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Hello All
What she may like to do is write to the CEO of the
hospital in question and tell the story. This is appalling and should not happen
in today's health care system. This woman is entitled to a full explanation of
her procedure and given that her consent was obtained under less than adequate
conditions and was not informed; I believe she warrants an apology as
well. Women should not be frightened or intimidated to lodge a complaint; it her
right as a health system user. The information she seeks should have been
provided by the person ordering the test before the procedure was carried out.
Jenny
Jennifer Cameron FRCNA FACM
PO Box 1465
Howard Springs NT 0835
0419 528 717
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 10:24
PM
Subject: [ozmidwifery] x-rays and other
nasties for a pregnant woman
Can I please have some
thoughts on where to look for info on this? This young woman was admitted to
hospital with a suspected clot on the lung and suspected pneumonia. She is
really freaked out and I'd love to direct her somewhere specific for
information.
This is direct from
her.
Cheers,
J
"I was taken straight through again the
next morning for the other scan, which turned out to me like one of those CT
scan things, where you lay down and the machine goes all around you taking
photos. The man that did them was nice, but the doctor that came in to
'explain' everything was a real wench. She didn't look at me once, and just
said that she couldn't guarantee that there would be no risk to the baby, but
given that 'it's 20/40..' and she trailed off (wtf does that mean? that there
should be no problem? that they would be extra careful?) before shoving a
clipboard in my face and getting me to sign a disclaimer that she didn't give
me time to read. (That was my fault I know, but not being familiar with
hospitals and not having view of mum for reassurance I just signed  ) Anyway, halfway through (trapped under a wide plate that came a cm
from my nose) I was told to give them an arm, and was injected with what I now
know was the radiation stuff they use to monitor the blood pumping. I asked
what it was for, and wasn't answered until it was halfway into me. The whole
time I just lay there in tears thinking that I was doing something that was
really damaging to my baby, and no one was giving me any answers.
Afterwards I was told that there was no clot, but that oxygen wasn't
getting to my right lung properly and this meant pneumonia. I was given a
quick checkup and more tablets and sent on my way.
What makes it worse
is that bubs has been very very active every single day since I could properly
feel kicks (around 16 weeks) and since Tuesday night I've hardly felt him at
all... Just a tiny tiny little bump maybe every couple of hours. That's two
days now and I'm really really worried that I've let him be harmed in some
way.. I have no idea what to do! Mum says to not worry about it because the
doctors wouldn't have given me anything that would hurt the baby, but I feel
like something is wrong."
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