Hi,
I am looking for a medical alert bracelet. I will probably get the USB.
What do you have inscribed on your bracelet? I have a K-Pouch.
Thanks!
Bill

I'm assuming you saw this thread (it's referring to a j-pouch). Maybe you can glean some information from it.

Big hugs to you and the fam!

kathy

Hi Bill,

I have a med alert bracelet with koch pouch on the top line then my doctors name and telephone number. Some people suggested koch pouch and need to intibate every 4-8 (or whatever) hours.
I got mine at www.creativemedicalid.com, 800-252-0661. They have some unusual ones. Good luck,
Jude

I was told most medical people you first come into contact with will have no idea what a Kock pouch or BCIR is.

I have put on the top side of the bracelet;
continent ostomy
drain w/30 f catheter

on the back side is my medical contact.

What do you mean you the USB?

This message has been edited. Last edited by: lesrich1,

in addition to the bracelet....(I like how Lesrich1 is written)...I have everything listed (instructions how to set up constant drain, etc.) typed into the ICE in my cell phone. This way I can hand my phone to whoever to read it.

I just googled "medical USB"
and was surprised at all I saw. There is so much more info you can get onto the USB than on the 'original' medical alert ID.
If you haven't checked it out, you should.

Maybe the following will sound like I'm a spoiled woman, and maybe I am but....

Shortly after my k-pouch surgery in 2003, someone suggested I wear a med alert bracelet. After the tricky recuperation from the procedure I decided I needed a treat. So I went to a nice local jewelry store and was shown catalogs of identification bracelets. I chose a nice heavy yellow gold one because I intended to wear it on my arm with my watch. The jeweler sent it out someplace to have a red caduceus made on one side of the front and my initials deeply engraved in the center, like a regular ID bracelet but with the red insignia on the side. Then on the back he engraved whatever I wanted. In my case he wrote "coumadin" (because I take it for a blood clotting disease called thrombophelia), "continent ileostomy" (because some ER people aren't familiar with the term k-pouch), and "Crohn's Disease (because that's what the surgeon said I have). Maybe I should have added some info about a catheter, but I just hope ER people could google Continent Ileostomy and take it from there.

I've worn it 24 hours a day for over 8 years, and I think it looks handsome. I admit it was expensive, but I'd rather have one good thing that gives me pleasure than a lot of other stuff. If I wear it the rest of my life, on a per day basis it may not be such a luxury.

Lynne,
I would be scared that some idiot would steal it off of my wrist before the medical staff got a chance to read it! (Or I have just been living in France too long and become a synic!)
Sharon
But I do love the idea.

Sharon, funny you should mention a theft of my med alert bracelet. First, such a thief would steal my wedding ring, watch, etc., and so the bracelet would be only one more item added to the list.

But funny because in March 2011 I was mugged on the French side of the island of St. Martin, right in front of our hotel at about 8 p.m. one evening. In the scuffle, the mugger threw me to the ground and my hip was broken. He stole only my purse and no jewelry maybe because 5 hotel employees rushed out to help. I did get to experience a French ambulance, the small French hospital on the island, its emergency room and a consult with a French surgeon the next morning. I chose to fly home (6 hours of air time plus wait for connecting flight) with my hip broken--not a good way to end a holiday. Interestingly, I was prescribed some pain medication that's not available in the states and it was quite effective.

Then, at a local hospital I had to wait 2 days for surgery while my blood thickened up. I guess I had overdone the coumadin while on holiday.

All's well now, with 3 pins holding my hip together. No weight on that leg for 8 weeks was very inconvenient and boring, but I'm fine--except St. Martin is no longer our spring destination of choice! And I still have my med alert bracelet!