EPTJesus man wtf. You did everything you could though. It's just so sad that she didn't make it after all that effort.
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Snuggles
United States1865 Posts
Jesus man wtf. You did everything you could though. It's just so sad that she didn't make it after all that effort. | ||
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Angel_
United States1617 Posts
=[ i hate life and people sometimes. | ||
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Uranium
United States1077 Posts
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Kukaracha
France1954 Posts
Which hospital are you in, assuming you're in Santiago? I went to see my grandpa (who's very important to me) in the hospital Felix Bulnes, and he was in a shitty old military hospital in Providencia because the regular hospital had been damaged by the last earthquake. I was also staying at the house of my mom's friends who are a very successful couple of doctors (he's an urologist in the Clinica Alemana and she's a radiologist) and it was just another world, completely disconnected from the rest of the country. It actually looked like the suburbs of Atlanta in the US, while dirt roads and people lying on the streets was just one hour away by bus. She really angered me at some point, we were discussing the problems of the country and she said that poor people didn't have money because "they were lazy". Those people go to a German clinic and to a French school, how the fuck can they call themselves chileans? I'm more Chilean than any of those idiots! Man this really worries me, my grandparents are around 70, I'm seriously going to murder anyone who lets them die just because it's not profitable to save them. And if I can't I'll just sue the shit out of them, pay the fucking judge to throw these assholes back to the ghettos they don't even know they exist. Fucking shit place, became a fucking third world country with all this stupid bullshit. | ||
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UmbraaeternuS
Chile476 Posts
I'm in southern Chile, near Puerto Montt, roughly 800 miles south from Santiago... In a very small and poor hospital, where your cleverness and improv skills do most of the job... And away from the capital, shit just gets worse... | ||
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UmbraaeternuS
Chile476 Posts
On February 16 2012 03:30 Uranium wrote: She was only 60? 60 isn't old... my mom is 60 and nowhere near dead. Just curious, what was the surgery that should have been performed? They cut her open and remove the aneurysm I guess? No... Actually, you open up the abdomen, dissecate through to the back of it, putting aside all the intestins and viscerae, to get to the anneurysm; the aorta is basically put up against the spine... way, way in the back of the abdomen, in between the kidneys; then, assuming it isn't broken and you have to find your way in a pool of blood inside the abdomen, you clamp the aorta just above the anneurysm and just below it, and cut that portion out; after that, you replace that segment of the aorta with a synthetic graft... And then, the shittiest part, you've got to start attaching all the major blood vessels coming out of the aorta that you had to take out, back into the graft... All in under 3 hours, so the organs irrigated and the legs don't get hypoperfusion injury (i.e: don't start dying due to lack of blood for 3 hours). This stuff is serious shit. Might be, besides open skull brain surgery and open heart surgery, the biggest one a person could endure. It's like saying "oh, the main water pipeline to my house broke, let's dig a hole in the ground, and in between the artificial lake made by the leaking pipe, try to seal both ends off and replace the shit out of it in less than 3 hours without letting the sinks in the house run out of water"... Standard. | ||
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Kukaracha
France1954 Posts
I did stay for some time at San Antonio at my grands house and it was way, way worse than Santiago, true. Small roads going up the hills, I have no idea how ambulances are supposed to get there in time. Good luck man, and heads up for saving lives in such an environment | ||
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ShaLLoW[baY]
Canada12499 Posts
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UmbraaeternuS
Chile476 Posts
I'm no hero, though. I'm just a man doing what he loves despite all the downsides. | ||
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PassiveAce
United States18076 Posts
Be proud of yourself, the situation was out of your hands and there just wasn't much you could realistically do beyond the lengths you went to (which, in my opinion, were above and beyond). Sadly, life or death decisions can come down to economics in almost every country. Take comfort that you did everything in your power to do what was right. | ||
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OpticalShot
Canada6330 Posts
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Iyerbeth
England2410 Posts
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