Big Meeting next Thursday

Hi Annousks

Most of my meetings took around an hour but often I had to wait around whilst there. With nurse led clinics I didn't often wait more than 30 mins. With consultant led clinics it could be well over an hour. 

My main appointment, where they discussed results and treatment- I was at the hospital for most of the day. This was because I had to wait ages for the consultant and then after that appointment I was sent straight away for pre op checks and these took around 2/3 hours. The checks were done in different places in the hospital and there was waiting around at each. From memory it was around 11 ish when I arrived and around 4ish when I could leave. 

So it was waiting for the consultant. In with the consultant. Follow up counselling/support from the nurse. Basic obs. Then to different parts of hospital. BMI, bloods. ECG, MRSA swabs. blood pressure etc

I would suggest giving them a call and getting a rough idea and then you can make sure Luna is covered. 

Good Luck

Jane

Oh thanks so much for this Jane, I never would've thought it'd be all that time, much appreciated. I presume I'll have to wait to call on Monday now.  I'm so nervous and the waiting is not great eh, fingers xd. Thanks again, take care 

I waited for 10 mins then was in with my consultant for about 10 mins 

Oh that's a big difference! Thanks MarmiteFan

Mine was similar to start with….in quite quickly, 5 mins with surgeon, but they then said they had a cancellation for op on the Monday morning, this was Friday and could I go back that afternoon for pre op, which took about 3 hours extra in the afternoon! Think quite rare though for that to happen!

Hi Annousks, at that appointment I saw my consultant, and he said that my predicted stage was 1a, and that the recommended treatment would be a hysterectomy, which he’d hope would be laparoscopic. I asked how long my stay would be and he said likely just overnight, I asked what happened after that, and he said my uterus would be sent off to the lab for histology, and then I’d have a post op appointment to get the results and generally check on how I was recovering results. There wasn’t really much else to say so that’s why it only took about 10 mins. Until that appointment I hadn’t told my adult children that I had cancer, only that I was having some gynae investigations, as I wanted to know the predicted grade first. I knew I’d now need to tell them so I asked if I could see my CNS immediately afterwards and have a chat with her, as I was feeling apprehensive, and that happened, so I chose to stay longer but that wasn’t down to the consultant.