I had gastric sleeve surgery in October…
I had gastric sleeve surgery in October 2024. The contact with Olympia was great, fast and efficient replies regardless the time of day. The only confusion was when I was meant to start fasting as the pre-op information said from midnight before surgery but no one seemed to be able to explain if it was midnight Turkish time or English time. I was told I wasn’t allowed to drink water during this fasting period but when I arrived at the hospital and I had documents to read and sign it stated that I was water up to 2 hours before surgery. When I landed at Istanbul airport there was some issues with the transfer the man at the airport told me I wasn’t on the list and this took some time to sort. Arrived at the hospital quickly and everything was efficient with paperwork and pre-op tests. All staff were great, I was very pleased when the doctor said I would be going in first. When out of surgery and returned to room, the doctor and nurse were there but nothing was mentioned to my mum (who came with me) if the surgery was successful or not etc. That evening I was in a lot of pain, my mum asked the nurses for pain killers I was told I couldn’t have any until 8. Still suffering from the anaesthetic I was in and out of sleeping, about 9 I was begging for pain relief. My mum asked the nurse and she said she would be in shortly but no one came for 30 minutes, as my pain was getting worse my mum went again to find someone and the nurse said yes we are dealing with someone else and will be with you but my mum saw the nurse was playing a game on her phone, I didn’t get my pain killers until 10.30pm. The nurses on Tuesday were on top of my pain killers and I suffered with high blood pressure which was monitored closely. The doctor visited again but I was still struggling to stay awake from the anaesthetic, he asked me why I looked like I was in pain and explained I was very tired and fell back to sleep but again nothing was said to my mum about my surgery. I never saw the doctor again so I assume my surgery went well. There was constantly a lot of nurses in the room at once talking to one another but no one introduced themself or why they were in the room. I met the dietitian on Wednesday which was all good. On Thursday the day of discharge, I again had high blood pressure which was monitored in the afternoon but when nurses swapped shifts my blood pressure wasn’t checked again. Thankfully I think I only had high blood pressure from the stress. I was very nerves about leaving the hospital for obvious reasons but also because I know Turkish taxi drivers can drive very chaotic but this driver was amazing no bumps what so ever. The transfer to the hotel and to the airport I couldn’t fault. The majority of the staff during my stay were accommodating, including the cleaners and the people who brought the food round every time I saw them or they came into my room they spoke to me regardless of the language barrier and always smiled.
7. lokakuuta 2024
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