Sqad..please Be Around Soon.

[gness]

I rarely last long on a serious thread...☺

I had tests at Peterborough yesterday...what a different hospital.

My legs are fine as is the right artery, just a very slight narrowing but nothing of concern.

The left artery, just below where it joins the aorta, shows narrowing....quite severe is what I was told. I suppose this is what was seen in Kettering that wasn't acted upon as it is the same spot.

I know I have to wait for the consultation for definite results but the radiologist did say that in cases like this angioplasty is used.

I guess this will restore full blood flow to my leg and improve my walking..
...to what it was before?

Thanks...Gx

[Baldric]

Wow, now there's a plan, + Fun with a capital 'F'
Does it come fully armed?

[shoota]

I've got enough ordnance for the two of us......

[cupid04]

Wish you well soon, gness.xx

[gness]

Thanks, Cupid...it does feel good to be getting somewhere at last....x

Behave now, boys!

[slaney]

Very pleased that you have a diagnosis gness.
It's taken long enough heaven knows. Best of luck and I hope that it all goes well for you.

As a matter of interest - sqad, you say "You will be offered various procedures by the surgeon" what procedures other than angioplasty and/or stenting do you think might be offered here?

[gness]

Hi, Slaney.....thank you so much and for your help when I was dithering in the early days with the swelling and was it or was it not related.

I can't believe the difference in treatment since I asked to go elsewhere. Peterborough is clean, efficient and whoever I see actually discusses what could be wrong and where we go from here.....and I do have trust in them which was so lacking before....and not without reason I think.

Gx

[Sqad]

slaney.......the other options are aorto-femoral bypass with vein graft and the other option would be endarterectomy......both quite major procedures compared to angioplasty.

[Peter Pedant]

Hi Gness sorry you are having this

go for the simple procedure first - angioplasty.

Once Peterborough agree to treat - it may be worth writing to Mr X of firstville general telling him why you found his team and function so unaccepable - or else he will never change.

[gness]

Thank you, Peter. When I realised MrX hadn't looked at my test results and told me not to worry about them anyway because I was doing well at making myself better I knew it was time to look elsewhere.

I did tell MrX why and also told the hospital when they sent a further appointment.

MrX explained to me why he was fed up with the NHS so I guess his heart just isn't in it anymore.

[Sqad]

gness.......just bear with me whilst an old man reminisces.
I was born in Peterborough and left at the age of 18years old to go to London to study Medicine, but it was then called the Peterborough Memorial Hospital and was on Thorpe Road....it may still be.

I took every opportunity to go to the Casualty Dept and would just sit in the waiting room, taking in the smell of antiseptic and trying to see in the examination rooms for a view of the vast array of instruments.......it was a fantastic experience.....nothing like it in the whole world and i "fill up" just thinking about it. When it was my turn, i told the nurse to deal with the other patients which lengthened my fantasy of life in the medical sphere.

The summer before going up to London, i got a job as a ward orderly at PMH and that involved, making the breakfasts, giving out the early morning teas and cleaning the tables and lockers of the patients......fabulous and i got paid for it.
The highlight was when the ward sister, who gave me a hard time, instructed me to take a patient to the theatre for a left nephrectomy being performed by a Mr Bracey (long dead) and I was asked in the anaesthetic room if i would like to watch the operation. WOULD I!...........
It was an experience i will never forget and when i got back to the ward i was told off by the sister infront of all the nurses and patients that i was to remember my position.."a Ward Orderly"

Sorry gness.....but thanks for indulging me on your thread.

[gness]

Reminisce all you like, Sqad...that post sounded just like my nephew.

Just before he went to med school last year he was able to spend time with friends in London...she a GP and he a surgeon.
M was able to watch some operations and, while he enjoyed being with the GP, it was the surgery that has excited him.
It was a pleasure to listen to him being so enthusiastic about really knowing that this is what he wants to do.....

Not sure the other dinner guests were too happy with the details of the operation to remove part of a lung....☺

[Sqad]

LOL....fabulous....tell him that if he wants to be a surgeon......he will be. Not to let anything or anybody stand in his way and that he may have to run over a few people with coach and four to get there.
But it will be worth it.

[gness]

Thank you, Sqad....I'm sure he will make it. There were plans for a gap year to take up a fantastic, once in a lifetime opportunity.....the time in London changed things completely....and he will be a good doctor....Gx

[ferlew]

Gness, mine was done because I had had a few heart attacks. I was just reassuring you the procedure was not that bad.
I was right as rain afterwards, in fact better than I had felt in a long while.

Went to see hubby, oh my, I could have wept.
He looked so tired and sounded so weak.
They could not do the key hole, not sure why at the moment.
They went in through his back.
He has the self administered pain relief, and a nerve block similar to an epidural, on oxygen, he seems to have wires and tubes all over.

The good thing is he is eating and drinking ok, physio and a nurse helped him dress this morning, and he sat out in a chair and tried some breathing exercises. They are all very pleased with him.
One anaesthetist declined to minister to him, because he thought it too risky, but thankfully another said he would.
Sorry to take over your thread :)

[ferlew]

Oh, that was what hubby had done.
Oooh, and while I think on, I thought of you today, I was following a car, the number plate started ... GN55.

Hope you get treated soon.

[tonyav]

ferlew, I'm sure that he will regain his strength, keep your chin up.

[gness]

Thanks, Ferlew....do you think it would be wise for me to have a car that can be identified as mine...with my track record? People would drive into ditches to avoid me...☺

I know just what you are going through...it's awful to see them so poorly. Will be thinking of you both and sending healing thoughts....xx

[Blackiequine]

Ferlew, hopefully it's progress every day now.
Gness, when they're doing the procedure just think of the ewe on the Isle of Skye! I wish you both all good things.

[gness]

Well thanks, BQ! Now when I am asked to lie still while they cut into my groin I am going to have a laughing fit!.... :-(

[Blackiequine]

Ooooooh! That's brought tears to my eyes!