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Ok, I haven't even read the whole article, just saw the headlines, but wanted to share with all the moms-to-be (you know who you are) and soon to be moms-to-be...
There is a permanent anesthesiologist at RLS who can now give epidurals.
For all you who are leaving island in part due to this lack of service, maybe staying 'aint so bad?
Posted : July 13, 2006 1:45 pm
Onika: You know, I immediately thought about you when I read that article! And read your PM.
Posted : July 13, 2006 8:09 pm
I was totally gobsmacked when I read that article. Although of course beyond child-bearing age, all my years working in hospitals stateside led me to assume that epidurals were part and parcel of the delivery package here. Yikes.
Hopefully this new anesthesiologist will stick around for a while...
Posted : July 14, 2006 3:18 am
I'm with STT Res. I was speechless reading the article http://www.virginislandsdailynews.com/index.pl/article_home?id=17593596
What? Are you kidding me? Surely child bearing women in STT have had the option for labor pain management prior to this time?? What was utilized prior to this announcment to utilize epidurals?
I gotta tell ya.....this news was...now I know the true meaning of 'gobsmacked'...... please tell me mothers @ Schneider have not had to endure labor without some kind of pain meds available if they chose.
Posted : July 14, 2006 3:19 pm
Pain management options before this included going to stx, pr, or going back to the states!
Posted : July 14, 2006 5:22 pm
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On STT, your options were au naturel or Demerol.
I have, after 14 months, FINALLY come to the point of forgiving myself for taking the Demerol. Thankfully, the Demerol was administered in a bad IV so I wasn't as knocked out as I could have been.
Epidurals have their own issues (some women say it detracts from their ability to sense contractions and the resulting urge to push), but I would have liked having the option available.
But now you other ladies can!!!!!
Woohoo!
Posted : July 14, 2006 6:30 pm
What? No epidurals before now? I retract what I wrote to Nikki about the VI not being a third world country - until now. Sheesh.
Posted : July 15, 2006 12:00 am
I'll say it again, hopefully this new anesthesiologist will stick around for a while...
Onika, had to chuckle initially at your saying, "There is a permanent anesthesiologist at RLS..." So very many well qualified physicians come here to work at the hospital(s) and depart in short shrift.
There are many here who remember Governor Roy Lester Schneider who reigned omnipotent for a while and for whom the STT hospital was subsequently renamed in his honour. While campaigning for Governor, he made frequent reference to the fact that he had set up a kidney transplant center at the (then) St Thomas Hospital and had thereafter performed several such transplants. What was omitted, unfortunately, and which at the time nobody brought up publicly, was that not one of those transplant patients survived...
May the new anesthesiologist stay here long enough to afford some birthing mothers a wonderful procedure which has been around for donkey's years!
Posted : July 15, 2006 2:15 am
