Doctor sent me off to hospital for a Colonoscopy as a result of blood being in my s***, on the one hand (bleeding piles – the blood goes away after a few days) and also to provide emotional support for my partner who also had to go for a Colonoscopy, because she has a low iron count in her blood (outside chance that she might have cancer which is draining the iron from her body/blood).
So I did the full pre-prep for 7 days prior to the Colonoscopy, change of diet and Plenvu for the last 24 hours prior to my Colonoscopy and all bright, smiles and waves to everyone, I had the procedure, only to be awwoken afterwards to be told my pre-prep was not good enough and the Colonoscopy was cancelled, making me feel like a right proper p************.
So my partner goes in and they do her Colonoscopy, even though her final report said her pre-prep, like mine, was not good enough, but they went ahead with her Colonoscopy anyway and now she is waiting for her final results.
Now I have to do a longer pre-prep with a different chemical (not Plenvu) and this starts from next week, my Colonoscopy scheduled for 2 weeks from today.
My partner asked the nurse, afterwards, how many patients, like myself, were rejected for poor pre-prep and she said about 75% and in fact, 3 of the other patients in her recovery ward had been rejected too, for poor pre-prep, just like me.
So what this means is, that all of the medical staff get paid and they make up the shortfall of Colonoscopy patients by doing 25% (irrespective of poor pre-prep) and rejecting 75% to ensure they have a steady supply of patients for Colonoscopies and none of the medical staff need to fear about being put off, for lack of work, it seems to me.
The upside of the whole procedure is that I pay for the medications I have to take, for the pre-prep, but the Colonoscopy is free, because I am a pensioner – otherwise it would probably cost like the bottom had fallen out of my savings.
Does that s*** or what?