Brandon turns 8 in June and he's in Grade 2 this year, he suffers from ADHD although he's on the good side, and I say that cos he's very smart and very very well behaved!
When he was in Prep, he had a school yard accident where he fell and hit his 'willy' putting a split of about 1cm in his foreskin. We made a trip to Dandenong Hospital with this injury, who then sent us to Monash Medical Centre to see a pedeatric surgeon - he in turn said this would heal itself, but advised me to keep an eye on (with local GP) his foreskin as it seems to be tight. So I've done this over the last 18 months, and he had had several infections during this time.
Finally our GP at the time sent us to see a surgeon, who at the time said nothing could be done at this time - and I should wait til Brandon has a few more infections before anything could be done... WTF?? Why put the kid through more pain? So Unfair!
So after changing GPs it was discussed that we'd send Brandon to see a Private surgeon, of course at my expense, but I was okay with this as long as my child would be helped. I could think of nothing worse than having infections where he was having them, as this would stop him going to toilet and with ADHD this is made 10 times worse!!
On the 28th February we went to see Dr Chris Kimber at Cabrini Hospital, he was awesome and said without doubt Brandon needed to be circumcised! AT LAST, someone listened to us and was prepared to help my son! He advised that we had a 2 or 3 month wait on the public list at William Angliss Hospital in FTG, or we could get in sooner at Warragul. I opted for wherever we could get in sooner, and 2 days later I get a call from Dr Kimbers room and asked if 11th March would suit? WOW, amazing... we took that surgery spot, and made the trip to Warragul on Friday.
I've got to say that the staff at West Gippsland Hospital were just AMAZING! They were so caring and friendly and more than helpful... probably as Brandon was the only child there, their Childrens ward was EMPTY!! Can you believe that? Yet people go on long waiting lists in other areas, Warragul was only an hours drive for us and it was day surgery - this saved us 2-3 months of waiting... others should take this lead!
So here we sit today, Brandon is recovering well and looking forward to this initial pain and suffering to be over as he knows that down the track he won't have the same infections etc that he's had in the past few months.
Isn't it amazing what the 'private' system can do as opposed to the 'public' system - regardless of the medical situation??? But I bet if we weren't citizens of our own country the public system would have us in a flash... I'd do anything for my child even if it means paying for something that should be covered by our public health system!!
Anyway, Brandon is doing great!
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