WARNING!!!

[Lucinda]

Hi everyone,

I have received this email from my vascular surgeon. 
 
"Sorry to hear of your difficulties and the blocked graft again. As a little aside to the graft, this was a relatively new type of graft recently marketed and supposedly with better properties for access. It was being used at many centres in Sydney (and elsewhere around the world). There have now apparently been quite a few reports of this graft blocking (from units all round Australia) and so people are now steering away from using it. This information was not available at the time of either of your operations."

I am having my graft redone again on Friday so I will find out which graft they have been using so you can all steer clear of it.  This is my third shot at it in as many months and I wouldn't want anyone else to have to go through it as often.  Check with your surgeon.  If they suggest a new type of graft tell them you would prefer to stay with the tried and tested.

Lucinda xxxxx

[keefer51]

Thanks for the info lucinda. I miss chatting with you.

[Wattle]

  Wow Cindy. Is that meant to be an apology?  Were you told before the surgery that they were going to use a new graft? It sounds like he is just trying to cover his BUTT     

[Sluff]

At least they have the balls to inform you.

[Sara]

I'm with Wattle, I'd be wondering why I wasn't told they were going to use a newer, more experimental type of graft.   

[whitehorse]

That is an interesting development for graft

[Sluff]

That is an interesting development for graft

Welcome whitehorse.

Please go back to the introduce yourself section and introduce yourself.

Sluff/ Admin

[kitkatz]

Put the letter in the file for the lawyer. He just admitted wrongdoing.  Great!

[RichardMEL]

yikes! I am glad my fistula works A-OK!

[Rerun]

Tell him to just put a zipper in!