Well done on your spirit and faith to keep positive. .. so pleased to know youll soon be good as new!! You're an inspirationā and wishing you a speedy return home and a pain free future
@Celle yes I understand that, I'm in the process of getting Brit citizenship. Life is never simple especially when you have a bad knee replacement . I lived in Switzerland for a few years and they consider the Italian system absurd. They also picked up my genetic heart condition completely...
to answer your valid questions I've found a revisionist in Milan to call once I have my scan. Every surgeon in Italy works within the state system of hospitals for operations No one in Italy pays for operations, except the stinking rich in private hospitals. What you can pay for is consultations...
@Josephine thanks and that may happen. I'm getting increasingly tired of this life and if I can manage get some money out of my property I hope to get Old in UK.
@Celle that is precisely the job of a Legal doctor in Italy . My cost would be only the consultation and since I am unemployed the state would have to bear the cost of the revision. I cannot possibly pay for that privately .
@KarriB because I felt so uncomfortable right from the start in hospital, I ordered my complete clinical file. Which tables every single action and drug admistration of the operation and hospital stay. I hope to take this to the Legal doctor. At the very least I should be put right by a...
@Celle thank-you so much for your comment and for reading my back story.
I had tried to forget how horrendous being in hospital in Italy really was, I nearly went out of my mind. I had set it all aside and got on with my life.
Suffice to say I won't be allowing my OS to touch me again I would...
Thanks, no I haven't seen a revisions specialist nor my surgeon yet. I went for a regular visit to an orthopedic in the hospital. Who told me to go back to my OS and to go for the Nuclear scan.
In the state system you get whoever is on duty. In order to see your original surgeon you have to...
Thanks everyone, has anyone had a Nuclear scan before? The instructions say afterwards I should avoid being near children and pregnant women for a week or so as I'll be radioactive !!!! In Italian it's called Scintagrafia.
I would like to talk to someone on the forum who has actually had a...
Thank you got the advice I have found one revision specialist attached to a medical legal practice where I intend to ask for advice on compensation or at least to be evaluated properly after my scan comes back. I will have to pay privately for this and I don't have the funds. The person. Who did...
How do you find a revision specialist? The operation was carried out in an Italian hospital via my state medical card. I'm considering speaking to a Legal Doctor Who specialises in bringing damage cases.
My TKR done in October 2013 is giving Me pain and is aching constantly it's now painful on walking. it's never been completely right. The patella has never smoothly moved. I could never do straight leg raises with that knee, because it had to click into place. I went back to see my surgeon for...
Update Im nowhere near my 1 year anniversary yet have to wait till October for that. But Im reasonably pleased, although some days I still get flashbacks of that torrid two weeks in hospital. However, I do wish that there had been a longer wait between me getting my plate removed from my thigh...
what a good report card Luisa! Im nowhere near my 1 year anniversary yet have to wait till October for that. But Im reasonably pleased, although some days I still get flashbacks of that torrid two weeks in hospital. ( good to hear you have no regrets) However, I do wish that there had been a...
Dear Puffin, sorry to hear youre having a tough time. I am 9 months out. I still walk strangely up stairs as when I lead with my bad leg its strangely stiff, but I have no pain, and I have been walking up to 20 to 30 minutes on it. Im overweight by 20kgs from the inactivity before the op. I want...
Hi All, just checking Inn, How are you Diane? Im at the halfway mark now 6months have passed since they gave me my knee. I just flew home to my family in March 16,000 kms a 12 hour flight via Paris. I asked for asssistance which is IMO the best thing about having bad knees!! Travelling with...
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