Guest guest Posted December 24, 2008 Report Share Posted December 24, 2008 I got the thing removed yesterday at Kaiser. They used a laser by cytoscopy and ureteroscopy under general anesthesia. I am writing this mostly because they took into account the cml for the general anesthesia and it may be of interest for the list. Obviously they had little experience with patients taking gleevec and took extra precautions considering me as high risk. I guess the paragraph on potential heart problem in the gleevec notice got the anesthesist attention. I have to say they were very nice all along and the whole thing was very smooth, it was sweet to have half of the nurses trying to say a few words in French :-). I talked with 3 people of the anesthesia team (including the md) and they did an EKG about an hour before going to the surgery room. I guess everything checked out ok. I can't say the awakening was pleasant, I was shaking and my bladder was ready to explode, but it got better quickly and I was home a few hours later. Today I am doing prety good, staying home as I don't want to risk getting a DUI driving around. Marcos. -- Marcos Perreau Guimaraes Suppes Brain Lab Ventura Hall - CSLI Stanford University 220 Panama street Stanford CA 94305-4101 650 614 2305 650 468 9926 (cell) marcospg@... montereyunderwater@... www.stanford.edu/~marcospg/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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