Care at MUSC to

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After being offline for several days, I've just seen your post where

you spoke of having an appt. with a new doctor and hoping to get a

referral out of state, with either Lehman or Cotton. You spoke of the

care at MUSC as being so terrible, and I just have to question why you

would say that.

Although I've personally never had to be hospitalized at MUSC, I've

had several friends and three family members hospitalized there, and

cannot say enough good things about the care and the quality of the

staff at this hospital.

The doctors and staff at MUSC saved the life of my sister in law,

literally!! It happened several years ago, maybe ten, I don't

remember the exact dates now, but my SIL Roseanne was in the hospital

in Columbia after some problems with her Lupus and a situation where

a surgeon there had cut her open from the base of her neck down her

sternum and into her ribcage, doing a biopsy, no less... After

visiting her there in Columbia, her condition was faltering quickly,

so my husband and I made emergency arrangements to have her

transferred by ambulance to MUSC. I met the ambulance at ton

and assisted with her admittance to MUSC, and spent the next couple

of days there with her while teams from rheumatology, auto-immune

and infective diseases, gastroenterolgy and who knows who else met

with her, there were so many specialists called in!! Then she went

into a sudden coma at one point and then spent two months in intensive

care in a medically induced coma state while they slowly nutured her

back to life. It was touch and go a few times until they were finally

able to bring her back to a stable condition and carefully restore

her. The care and attention she received was truly amazing, caring,

compassionate and attentive, both to her and to our Griffeth family,

(her brother, sister and me), during the months while she was in their

care. It was a very sensitive situation and I know we were all so

grateful to the staff there for the outstanding care she received.

My husband, other SIL and I spent three months driving back and forth

to ton, and there were times we felt we lived at MUSC or across

the street at my daughter's college apartment while Roseanne was at

MUSC.

I didn't mean to launch into such a long testimonial, but I guess

that's what it is, is a testimonial to the top notch care MUSC gave

her, and saved her life. So I would NEVER hesitate to recommend this

hospital to anyone.

With love, hope and prayers,

Heidi

Heidi H. Griffeth

www.pancassociation.org/anthology#Heidi.html

Bluffton, SC

SC State & SE Regional Representative

Pancreatitis Association, International

www.health.groups.yahoo.com/group/pancreatitis/

Note: Comments or advice are based on my personal experiences or

opinions only, and should not be substituted for professional medical

consultation.