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Weezer said:
UT hospital was almost the death of me. Fun fact, May 18th, 2017, I was admitted to UT hospital after going to the ER. I spent like 10 days there, never getting better. Told them to just let me go home. They threatened to have me pulled of the transplant list if I left. When I threatened to leave anyway the finally contacted my liver doctor, thinking he'd convince me to stay. The fact I was in there at least a week before they even bothered to contact my liver doctor at Vanderbilt should tell you something. He asked for my labs, looked at the numbers, and said he wanted me transferred to Vanderbilt ASAP. So I got to take an ambulance ride from UT Hospital here in Knoxville to Vanderbilt Hospital in Nashville. Pretty quick trip as the ambulance driver was doing 95-100 almost the entire trip. Anyway, if left to their own devices, I'm positively convinced the doctors at UT would have let me die. They don't do liver transplants at UT Knoxville, yet for some reason, it never occurred to them to send someone on the liver transplant list to the hospital that does liver transplants. Dumbasses.

Anyway, we're just minutes away from it being May 18th. Five years ago, I went into the hospital here in Knoxville, eventually got transferred to Vandy, and didn't get out of the hospital until July 3rd. My transplant was June 9th. It was October 21st before I finally got to come home to Knoxville. I had to stay in the Nashville area and be monitored after the transplant.

And May 18th is also my birthday.
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That's rough. FWIW, when OH was first diagnosed we spent about a month there and have since been in and out too many times to count. It's fair to say I've probably spent close to six months at UT hospital if all of our stays were added up. During COVID, we were forced to go to two other hospitals due to restrictions on ambulance service and those were pretty horrible experiences. I've got nothing but love for the docs and nurses at UT hospital. They've treated his heart failure, liver failure, and kidney cancer and brought him back from the brink several times but he's had me there as an advocate every time he's been and that often helps. And I think that's especially true with anything concerning the liver because as you already know there's an in-built set of suspicions and judgements.

With any big bureaucracy you really need someone else to help navigate things. I always made friends with all the nurses and even a few of his doctors. His last stay at UT he had the same doctor who had appealed to his initial kidney and liver specialists to review his case after speaking with me. OH was in bad shape - no cognition, memory, or much awareness of where he was or who he was but I remembered this doc.

I looked at him and told him, "I remember you. You were the one who spoke with me and asked his specialists to take another look during the first year of all of this." I told him when it had been and didn't say much at the time but then he came back later and told me that he had looked in his files and that he had indeed treated him but that given the sheer number of doctors we'd seen he was surprised that I remembered him. I looked him dead in the eye and told him, "Everyone else had written him off but you listened to me. You saved his life. Of course, I remember you."

He blushed and we managed to have a really good stay. He even told us that if we had to come back we could request him.
 
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rekinhavoc said:
Please let Kiffin pile on and admit he was let go for banging Saban's daughter.
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