RE: Does any of you wear a Medic Alert Bracelet after bypass surgery?

[Guest guest]

Hi,

What is recommended to put on the medic alert bracelet? Specific wording

please?

Stacey

Open RNY 12/29/04

-103

Surg weight:160.5

Current weight: 157

Re: Does any of you wear a

Medic Alert Braclet after bypass surgery?

I would just caution you to not make it look too much like jewelry--you

don't

want the paramedics to miss the fact that it's a medic alert! I got mine

from

Medic Alert (www.medicalert.org/)

Pat

Open RNY, 9/21/04

-121

[Guest guest]

Mine says:

Roux-En-Y

DO NOT BLINDLY

PLACE NGT

NO MORPHINE

NO NSAIDS

Of course, yours wouldn't have to say no morphine (I'm just highly

allergic).

> Hi,

> What is recommended to put on the medic alert bracelet? Specific

wording

> please?

> Stacey

> Open RNY 12/29/04

> -103

> Surg weight:160.5

> Current weight: 157

> Re: Does any of

you wear a

> Medic Alert Braclet after bypass surgery?

>

>

> I would just caution you to not make it look too much like jewelry-

-you

> don't

> want the paramedics to miss the fact that it's a medic alert! I

got mine

> from

> Medic Alert (www.medicalert.org/)

>

> Pat

> Open RNY, 9/21/04

> -121

[Guest guest]

Mine says: Gastric bypass; do not blindly place N/G tube, no NSAIDS (and a few

other medical things specific to me--like I'm allergic to penecillin.) There is

an ID # and a phone # - when someone calls the # and gives my ID, they will get

the names of my doctors, family, etc., etc. Well worth the $20/year, I think.

Pat

Quoting " Jenne, Stacey ARMC-Nutrition Services " jennes@...>:

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> Hi,

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> What is recommended to put on the medic alert bracelet?  Specific wording

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> please?

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> Stacey

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> Pat

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> Open RNY, 9/21/04

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> -121

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[Guest guest]

When I got mine, they didn't have the right option online for RNY, so I

called. The operator was VERY helpful, looked it up, and knew exactly

what to put. Mine says ROUX-EN-Y GASTRIC BYPASS. PLACE NG TUBE WITH

ENDOSCOPY. NO NSAIDS. It also has the MedicAlert phone number and my

record ID number.

Jenne, Stacey ARMC-Nutrition Services wrote:

> What is recommended to put on the medic alert bracelet? Specific

> wording please?

--

Eleanor Oster

eleanor@... (personal address)

www.smallboxes.com/gastricbypass.htm

San , CA

Open RNY (100 cm bypassed) 07/15/2003

P. Fisher, M.D., Kaiser Richmond (CA)

~5'9 " tall

05/09/2003 319 Orientation

07/15/2003 ~290 Surgery

Current 150-155 Goal until plastics?