to be a trifle unsure about a gynaecologist who couldn't tell the difference...

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between my c-section scar (4" horizontal scar on pubic bone) and a 16" curved abdominal scar?

I have requested a different consultant next time as she also wished to induce me but I fear she'll stick her forceps up my arsehole.

Ha ha ha @ forceps up your arsehole! Made me larf. Yes you did the right thing. Good luck - when are you being induced?

TBF I've got a huge scar on my abdomen that confuses doctors. It's actually from an appendectomy. By the time they realised I was that ill, it was a case of 'slash her open and get it out'.

Looks like an attack from a 1 toothed shark. :(

Just put a big arrow in marker pen to the c-section scar.

Oh no fear, I'm not being induced anywhere near now (I'm only 26 weeks), but I was just left feeling a bit "wtf"? It's all in my notes and it was the same hospital I delivered at. I could understand a trainee nurse, first week on the job being a bit unsure - but surely a trainee consultant should know her way around a c-section scar or two?

C-sections can be done in more than one way depending on the circumstances. I always think a good doctor shouldn't assume anything.

maybe she forgot her glasses.

I've had the ultrasound person ask me when I had abdominal surgery. It was a stretchmark

I had an operation on my knee. I wrote 'This Knee' on the poorly one, and 'Not This Knee' on the good one. Just in case.

Oops! Was she actually qualified? I have a friend who is a gynae, and he tells me all sorts of 'funny' stories about trainees......
SarahStratton - I had a knee reconstruction a few years ago, and the thing which annoyed me the most was the 6 days it took to get the big magic marker arrow scrubbed off my leg afterwards. Still, glad they did the right knee!

MY DH had to have his vasectomy all over again because first time round they only did one side because "the couldn't find the other one" and the second time they didn't know which side was already done so did them both anyway...

a day after my first c section, a midwife came in, asked to see my stomach, apparently didn't notice the line of metal staples across the wound, and asked 'did you have a natural delivery?'. perhaps she thought it was some sort of unusual body decoration i had.

She probably thought your vajazzle had gone wrong and moved up mrsravel.

There are more than one type of c-section incision though. If she asked to clarify then YABU, If she assumed then YANBU.

My friend has two parallel identical foot-long scars on her abdomen, one from an emergency appendectomy and the other from emergency C-section - literal slash and grab in both cases.

No way anyone could tell them apart. She's got a couple neat little planned cs ones too.

My best friend is partially sighted. One of her eyes is a prosthetic (a very good one, many people can't tell it's not real) and she only has 16% of normal vision in her other eye.

One year during her annual checkup, her consultant asked her if she minded the trainee doing it while he watched. My friend said that was fine. Trainee proceeded to cover her prosthetic with his hand and ask her what she could see, compared to normal. Friend, slightly bemusedly, answers it's the same, obviously. He then covered her other eye - the real one that she can actually see with! - and said 'how about now?' Friend says 'nothing, obviously!' and laughs. Trainee could not understand why she thought it funny, and was quite offended.... Friend's actual consultant took over at that point. :o

C-sections can be done in more than one way depending on the circumstances. I always think a good doctor shouldn't assume anything

I agree

Can he tell the difference between his own arse and his elbow?

Or more to the point YOUR arse and YOUR elbow!

When I dislocated my knee I had to see an orthopaedic consultant. He looked at my knees (at least he got that right|!!)

"So, Miss Gin, when did you have your surgery?"
"my surgery??"
"Yes, your operation "
"Ehmm I've never had an operation?"
"Your operation on your knee, when did you have it??"
"Sorry, but I've never had any type of operation on my knee"
then click

"I was a clumsy child... those are just scars from falls"
"Are you sure???"
"Pretty sure yes.."

!

I think you are being a little unfair. My bf has one tiny c section scar as you describe. She also has a massive one much higher up. The second one because at a 40 week consultant appointment she was sent for a scan which identified an undiagnosed placenta praevia and the start of a haemmorage. She said she was in theatre within about minutes and afterwards they apologised for the ugly scar but she's proud of it because the consequences were unthinkable.

Never assume.

lol op, that's made me smile!

yanbu

I had similar recently.

'So, Grace' (Careful arranging of face) 'I understand that you have a ten year history of post natal depression.'

'Um, no. As far as I'm aware, I've never had post natal depression.'

'But ten years ago, when your son was born...'

'My son is still only nine weeks old.'

Stood in front of nurse at A&E as I had a cycling accident, with two broken fingers, one of them dislocated (flapping around off my hand).

Dressed in cycling top, gloves, lycra shorts, shoes, all festooned with bike-ads.

Nurse: So did you do it cycling?
Me : (looks down at self and back at nurse)
Nurse: (Grins) sorry, it's been a funny day.

My friend has a massive vertical scar from a tumour (?) that grew at the same rate as her baby, when she was pregnant with her first. Subsequently she has three neat c section scars.

GraceWhoIsTired