[Quiet Man Cometh]

Originally Posted by Pink pantzer

See my issue is that I get so close to it. Even the day of and it gets canceled. 3 times this has happened and I have waited over 6 years for this surgery and it keeps getting pushed back. I think I am getting more frustrated and upset by the day the longer this goes on.

I am almost at the point of saying screw it and just going back to work and stuff even though I'm not supposed to. I am just so fed up with this all and yet canada is supposed to have a great medical field...haha yeah okay then.

Sad fact of life unfortunately. Where I live now, the doctor crunch is so bad that it can take months to find a gp, if you get one at all, and ER waits are horrendous because there is simply too many people for the system.

Unfortunately, with long wait lists comes lots of room for jostling. I had an emergency surgery delayed for 9 hours because people came in who were in worse shape than I was. That surgery took twice as long as it was supposed to, so now I've just delayed the next person's procedure. Even my transplant surgery was delayed by 2 hours. I forget why. It's not something that can get fixed without simply getting more than we've currently got. If you are able to wait, you do.

It sucks though. Odd that they didn't tell you about your surgery being cancelled. Human oversight would be my guess. If I recall correctly, back surgeries are notorious for being put off.