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Anyone have a C sec with Dr. Kalish? How was the experience?
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06.06.09, 05:06 AM [ Flag ]
- I did - twin pg. She was great. I, and babies, even left the hospital a day early. I took percocet and motrin for 3 days after I left and I was fine. Is there something specific you want to know about?
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  06.06.09, 11:25 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
  - What I was trying to get a feeling for (and the poster below essentially mentions it) is...will she be different on that day...all along I felt rushed and not a warm feeling in any way...but the reason I picked her was because of her skills. To be honest though...do any of us really know if a DR. is not doing the right thing during the heat of the moment? Sure I have done tons of research...and have an idea how things should go....but will I know if the level of medication they are giving me or perhaps the sequence they do something is in my best interest?
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    06.07.09, 09:53 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
    - np The anesthesiologist is in charge of all your meds "in the heat of the moment"--and odds are you'll have never seen him/her until they do your spinal. C/s isn't really a "warm experience", imo. Have had two. They're not fun--but the outcome was worth it!
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      06.07.09, 09:57 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
    - OR: I went to Kalish because I was high risk. While the exams were short, she answered any questions that I had. I needed to hear heartbeats and that my cervix was closed. When the protein level in my urine shot up and she wanted me to have a c-section that day, she agreed to do the c-section at the end of her workday when it wasn't her day for deliveries. When I asked them to re-test, my levels were in a normal range and I carried another 3 days for my scheduled date. On d-day (when I was starving, in pain and extremely bitchy - my water broke as I was going to OR), I threw the anesthesiologist out of the room. No joke. My biggest fear is anesthesia. He looked young and I asked how long have you doing this? He said 3 years. I said "you need to leave now". The anti-nausea medicine made me throw up, while I was lying on the table, paralyzed from the chest down. The spinal was not pain free but it is in and out. Kalish was the one who sewed me up. She does not pass the job onto someone else. I regained feeling and movement over my lower body approx. 15 minutes after going to recovery. You're hooked up and in bed until the next day.
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      06.07.09, 05:41 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
- I did--with twins. It wasn't a warm experience--but I always felt like I was in great hands.
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  06.06.09, 11:32 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]