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6:56pm June 5, 2013

youneedacat:

Dartmouth Hitchcock Hospital.

It felt like an airport terminal. I went there as the first of three appointments for getting my Interstim implant moved or replaced. It’s for urinary retention and right now it’s in a bad part of my butt. I won’t moon you, but basically you can see the entire outline of the thing now that I’ve lost weight. They think they can move it to a fattier part of my butt.

When I was on my way out and waiting in line, I asked the ambulance driver if Dartmouth was better than Fletcher Allen. He said he didn’t know, but a woman in line, in a wheelchair, said “Yes! Yes it is! Fletcher Allen nearly killed me! I never go there anymore. I’m here all the way from Vermont!”

That was just a random line of patients. I’m not surprised though. Lots of people I know have horror stories about Fletcher Allen.

I am even more determined to go to DH’s motility clinic for my gastroparesis, rather than the bunch of not-too-expert specialists we have here.

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