What It’s Like Needing Surgery During A Pandemic
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Julia Austin
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If you must reschedule, it won’t be easy
You have to remember that, if we needed to reschedule my surgery, there was no knowing if or when that could happen. Guidelines are changing constantly. The procedures the hospitals deem “urgent” right now for example might be pushed to the backburner next month if COVID cases rise. What’s worse is that if we had to cancel because one of us got sick, I’d have to wait longer than the month to get my surgery, which was longer than my doctor deemed safe for me to wait. What would that have meant for me and my precancerous cervical cells? This was certainly no relaxing lead-up to surgery.
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