Friendly Nudge
Hey guys, if you had ANY kind of neonatal or childhood surgery at all, ask your parents if they have records for you, and if they don’t, go get them. Get them and keep them.
You can get them by searching the hospital and calling their Health Information Management department, or often there is just a form on their website under “request records” that you fax or email and they will mail your records. You don’t even have to talk to anyone!
If everything was a success and you didn’t have complications, that paperwork might have slipped through the chaos and fears of newborn babies, and hospitals often destroy records after 5-10 years, it’s your (in America) responsibility to hold onto them. So if you suddenly have a change in diet and things don’t work out AT ALL, rather than paying the exorbitant prices for an MRI, you can have that paperwork to consult and know what was done so that as your body grows and changes, you have the information about how it might be different.
I was too late, by a lot,10 years too late, apparently, but I never had need of it before. So, I just wanted to throw that out there, for all you beautiful people who have cool scars that you don’t remember getting and are sooooo tired of the “miracle baby” stories, just check in with your parents about the paperwork and then find it, get it, and keep it. :)
