The surgery is seen by the consultant (who said it would be done, regardless of what I felt about it) as a "kill or cure measure, medication isn't working as it should". Assuming this last part means that the epilepsy is still not fully controlled. As has been the case all my life.
For those who have said they do this every day, would you say that to someone?
The same consultant made the referral, to the other hospital, not my GP.
The hospital is the one making the requests for me to seek legal help. Its they who have said what they require from me, paperwork wise.
I'm aware of the consent side of things. But I've never been told that something will be done, "whether I consent to it or not".
Not turning up for the appointment is one thing, but I've been placed under the care of another consultant in this matter for all future care of the condition. Just failing to turn up isn't as simple as it sounds. See another consultant that's what's been done for me.
If nothing is going to be done, surgery wise. Why this sudden rush for requests for paperwork? Hospital have refused to answer this question.
For those who feel I'm missing things out, I've left only names and what isn't known out. The only assumption I have made has been given above. The rest has either been said to me or presented to me in letters.
I've read everything that's been posted here, but not always answered. The one thing in my favour, is that in '95, due to to a reaction with the anesthetic(s), I "popped my clogs" on the operating table & surgery was stopped. That I found out the following day on the ward. Appendix removed, operation carried out as emergency surgery as I entered
Status Epilepticus when first being seen at the hospital. Not an uncommon state for me.
It made surgery for cancer four years later awkward. Cancelled once, and then delayed because they had trouble finding someone willing to perform it.
Rocky, regards my concerns. The most reported case.
"Destruction of both right and left hippocampus produces far greater deficits than might be predicted from the results noted above. Many years ago, a neurosurgeon operated on a patient who had epileptic foci in both right and left temporal lobes and destroyed both right and left hippocampus.
H.M. is now forty-seven years old. He cannot recognize his next-door neighbors, because his family moved to the present house twenty years ago, shortly after his operation. Once, when a psychologist who was driving him back from a medical center asked him to help her find the house, he guided her to a street that he said was quite familiar to him, though he admitted it was not the right address. The psychologist then called his mother and learned they were on the street where H.M. had lived as a child, before his operation. During his stay at the medical center, he had kept ringing for the night nurse, and with repeated apologies asked her over and over again where he was and how he came to be there. His doctors noticed that if they walked out of the room for even a few minutes and then returned, he did not know them-they had to be introduced to him all over again. Now H.M. sits at home, alone with his aged mother, next to old issues of the Reader's Digest, which seem eternally new to him. Everything he reads vanishes from his mind, as if a slate had been wiped clean. (From Maya Pines, The Brain Changers, reprinted with permission of Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, Inc.)
H.M.'s immediate memory is normal, as is his long-term memory for events more than several years before the operation. The problem is with his short-term memory and thus his ability to form new long-term memories."
http://www.williamcalvin.com/Bk1/bk1ch6.htm
Added what happened prior to "popping my clogs" on the operating table, including link.
