Re: to linda & other belgian hippies

[Guest guest]

Thanks for the info! That's amazing to hear that you didn't need

any meds after surgery. :-)

Limpy

> Yes, there are phones. The Europeans do not like medications, but

will certainly give you additional pain meds if you need them. The

tennis player, Saeed , graciously left his raised toilet seat at the

Holiday Inn for hippy use so you may be able to have one there if

you request it. I took beaucoup drugs prior to surgery so that I

could function and needed nothing after. Not that this will be the

case for everyone, but was amazed. Best of luck to the new group of

Belgian hippies!

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> Rock climbin' Jude

> LBHR De Smet 09/11/02

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> to linda & other belgian hippies

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> Dear Folks,

> Thanks so much for all of the info you've given. I've gotten

> the " what to pack " and " how to email home " questions answered,

> thanks to many of you. I'm wondering if there are phones in the

> Belgian hospital rooms so friends and family can call?

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> Also, I don't think my OS is willing to prescribe pain meds to

take

> with me, and, as I've said before, Tylenol does absolutely

nothing

> for me. Have any of you NOT taken your own pain meds with you

and

> asked the nurse or Dr. DeSmet for more medicine, and did they

give

> more to you??? I know I sound like a big baby about pain (and I

am)

> but I'm already needing a fair amount of meds to deal with the

pain

> now before surgery. (I had a hip scope operation for a labral

tear

> and sheared cartilege last July, and have been on crutches with

> increasing pain since then.) I feel vulnerable about the thought

of

> lying there in a foreign hospital in uncontrolled pain.

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> And a small thing, but very irritating--my insurance company

won't

> pay for my sock applier and raised toilet seat because they are

> for " personal convenience and personal hygiene " and

not " medically

> necessary. " I told them that I thought going to the bathroom and

> getting dressed were certainly not " convenience items " to me,

that

> dressing and toileting independently are 2 of the 5 (or whatever)

> basic life activities as considered by other insurance

companies.

> They said well someone else could use the raised toilet seat

> for " convenience. " How is the ability to go to the bathroom not

a

> necessity? I hate stuff like that. I know it's a drop in the

> bucket compared to what I'll put out financially, but I needed to

> vent, and I thought this was the place. :-)

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> Limmpy

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