{"id":17998,"date":"2022-05-19T20:57:08","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T20:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test-southcoast-health-multi.southcoast-health.org\/news\/doreens-patient-experience\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T13:24:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T13:24:04","slug":"doreens-patient-experience","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.southcoast.org\/es\/news\/doreens-patient-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"El viaje de Doreen como paciente ortop\u00e9dica"},"content":{"rendered":"

Para Doreen Woollam era un d\u00eda normal como cualquier otro. Estaba cuidando a sus cinco nietos en su casa de Swansea cuando, al girarse demasiado deprisa para cerrar la puerta de seguridad de la escalera, sinti\u00f3 un dolor repentino y punzante en la rodilla. \"Supe que algo iba muy mal cuando no pude mantenerme en pie ni andar\", cuenta Doreen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tras una visita al Hospital Charlton Memorial<\/a> Doreen fue diagnosticada de una rotura de menisco y su m\u00e9dico de atenci\u00f3n primaria la deriv\u00f3 r\u00e1pidamente a un especialista en ortopedia de Southcoast Health. Doreen no sab\u00eda que este ser\u00eda el comienzo de su largo viaje por la salud ortop\u00e9dica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Cuando me operaron del menisco, me diagnosticaron osteoporosis, una enfermedad que debilita los huesos\", explica. Osteoporosis<\/a> es m\u00e1s frecuente entre las mujeres mayores, ya que sus niveles de estr\u00f3genos descienden tras la menopausia y se acelera la p\u00e9rdida de masa \u00f3sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Mi madre tambi\u00e9n padece osteoporosis, as\u00ed que sab\u00eda lo importante que era contar con un buen equipo asistencial para tratar esta enfermedad. Me sent\u00ed muy agradecida de ser atendida por Joan Wildenhain, NP<\/a> desde mi operaci\u00f3n de menisco, pasando por mis tratamientos de osteoporosis y de ah\u00ed en adelante\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Una vez recuperada de su operaci\u00f3n de menisco, Doreen empez\u00f3 su plan personalizado de tratamiento de la osteoporosis y recibi\u00f3 frecuentes inyecciones para aumentar la resistencia y densidad de sus huesos. Aunque estaba progresando, Doreen no pod\u00eda ignorar el creciente dolor de la artrosis en las rodillas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"A medida que se aliviaban mis otros dolores, mi artritis empeoraba con la edad\", dice Doreen. \"Habl\u00e9 con mi equipo asistencial y fue entonces cuando conoc\u00ed a Dr. Lifrak<\/a>El Dr. Lifrak, cirujano ortop\u00e9dico, me recomend\u00f3 que me sometiera a una artroplastia total de rodilla\". Bajo la supervisi\u00f3n del Dr. Lifrak, Doreen se someti\u00f3 a una pr\u00f3tesis total de rodilla en noviembre de 2021, casi cuatro a\u00f1os despu\u00e9s de que se le diagnosticara por primera vez una rotura de menisco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Gracias a Dios por el Dr. Lifrak, y por mi equipo de cuidados, a\u00fan mejor. Una sustituci\u00f3n total de rodilla no es tarea f\u00e1cil, pero me sent\u00ed apoyada y respetada durante todo el proceso de recuperaci\u00f3n\", dice Doreen. Tras semanas de fisioterapia en casa y en la consulta, Doreen estaba haciendo unos progresos fenomenales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Mi rodilla iba tan bien y me sent\u00eda tan bien que en mi revisi\u00f3n de los seis meses consult\u00e9 al Dr. Lifrak para que me pusiera una pr\u00f3tesis en la otra rodilla. La gente siempre me pregunta qui\u00e9n es mi m\u00e9dico y, por supuesto, tengo que dec\u00edrselo\", se r\u00ede.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ahora, a sus 65 a\u00f1os, Doreen dice sentirse \"99%\" y est\u00e1 agradecida por las relaciones que mantiene con Southcoast Health. Reflexionando sobre su viaje de atenci\u00f3n m\u00e9dica ortop\u00e9dica, ella da cr\u00e9dito a los \"grandes m\u00e9dicos y enfermeras\" en su equipo de atenci\u00f3n.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aunque Doreen est\u00e1 esperando ansiosamente su segunda pr\u00f3tesis de rodilla, program\u00f3 intencionadamente su operaci\u00f3n en oto\u00f1o para poder disfrutar de los meses de verano de acampada con sus cinco nietos, de edades comprendidas entre los 13 y los 4 a\u00f1os. Da las gracias a Southcoast Health, y a sus nietos, por \"mantenerla alerta\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Como Doreen, tus d\u00edas de vivir con un dolor punzante de rodilla o cadera han terminado. Southcoast Health ofrece atenci\u00f3n ortop\u00e9dica en Fall River, Dartmouth, New Bedford, Swansea, Wareham, MA y Providence, RI a trav\u00e9s de Charlton Memorial Hospital, St. Luke's Hospital y Tobey Hospital. 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