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Jimmy Choo wrote: ↑Fri Sep 15, 2023 11:59 am Can we get a forum group buy on heart scans?

This is turning out exactly the way i hoped it would and sparking conversation about self care and making sure medical issues are not ignored :!: Also what are the chances there would be 3 members with bicuspid valves when the incidence in general population is 0.5% - 1.4% although mine now looks li...

Explosive Newt got it exactly right, bacteria on my toothbrush went in through gum and lodged behind my valve where there was low pressure and multiplied and multiplied into vegetations - parts of that breaking off caused the random dead legs etc and could so easily have gone into brain then and i ...

Congenital defect in aortic valve from birth (bicuspid instead of tricuspid) Oo-er; I believe I have the same. It’s never affected me, though I was always told to take antibiotics before any general anaesthetic. After 50 years without any issues I’d pretty much forgotten about it. Thank you for men...

There was a pilot somewhere of giving the home INR testing machines on the NHS but I’m not aware of it being widely available sadly. I seem to recall that if you get one you can get the testing strips off your GP though. Only a heart doctor but I would also suggest not to drink your own piss. Been ...

Concorde comes in a big box - easily 40cm x 40cm x 8cm - gonna take a while to build I think, especially in my currently impaired state!

speedingfine wrote: ↑Wed Sep 13, 2023 9:32 am Good Lord, you've not done all that by half have ya. Get well soon!

My family/friends have told me this a billion times

Thanks for the good wishes

Gavin wrote: ↑Wed Sep 13, 2023 3:04 pm Bloody hell! GWS. Also, don't drink piss

Of course i won't drink piss but will do best to GWS - thats why i reply to each comment on here -> it's great practice at 2 hand typing and thus is rehab of the type i need as i'm using a wireless keyboard and my downstairs media/gaming PC

Just caught up, and, well, https://media.tenor.com/vWfatbRXfaQAAAAC/damn.gif What have you done to your body to make it keep trying to kill you? :shock: I hope the recovery continues as it's started - it's incredible you've posted so much so clearly so soon after :o 8-) Congenital defect in aortic ...

> Point being - don't ignore a headache that lasts for several days and especially if it then suddenly becomes a weakness on the *opposite* side of your body from the headache - you could then hopefully avoid what happened to me.... Worth noting calling 111 is a very good triage service. GWS strang...

Bloody hell Teacherboy! You don't get poorly by halves do you? Good luck with the recovery. It's a skill :lol: :lol: :lol: Am doing my best to recovery steadily, hoovered whole house and mopped whole of downstairs today for balance and coordination rehab - stairs were a bit of a challenge!

John wrote: ↑Wed Sep 13, 2023 9:19 am Missed this. What a rollercoaster, hope your recovery isn't too long.

All is well so far...lots of outpatient stuff still to do however

Missed this. What a rollercoaster, hope your recovery isn't too long. I'm remarkably well all things considered and can do pretty much everything i could before - medical clearance will take a while obviously as they have to be sure it's all fixed and i don't start driving again, have another haemo...

Bloody hell. Glad you're back home, still with us and on the road to recovery. I had major heart surgery 11 years ago to get a mechanical aortic valve, replacement artificial aortic root and rebuilt mitral valve (bovine xenograft) and the meds to manage this are thought to have caused the haemorrha...

Ascender wrote: ↑Tue Sep 12, 2023 7:45 pm Holy shit! So glad to hear you're on the road to recovery, but what a run of bad luck. Good luck with the rest and recuperation.

Its pretty amazing what medical science can do

Thanks

Very (very) random question- you didn’t happen to be in an Exeter hotel this morning, did you? I overheard a conversation during breakfast recounting a very similar story. Best of luck with the recovery. Nope - at home in Yeovil, so reasonably close by but even i can't shout that loud :lol: :lol: :...

mik wrote: ↑Tue Sep 12, 2023 1:23 pm

teacherboy wrote: ↑Tue Sep 12, 2023 1:19 pm
no doubt i'd end up having to pay to access the ability to do basic things .... like swallow food or take a piss

Dude - I’m not a doctor, but I don’t think you are supposed to swallow piss

Thats some niiiiice kit there! Daughter who is 12 is just getting into music in a big way so as part of my penance for being in hospital for a chunk of the summer i've been sourcing her decent 2nd hand kit from local facebay market place so on sunday we went and collected a marantz 5005 amp, sony ps...

Just finished the Nascar Camaro my FiL bought for my birthday at beginning of June and I didn't quite get to finish as quickly as expected - i'd done bags 1 & 2 so it was 3 & 4 to do today - can confirm it's great rehab! IMG-20230912-WA0003.jpg Definitely need some more shelves in my office ...

:shock: You've been through the wringer there! Good to see your back on the mend, and remember that chicks dig scars. Did you get Elon's brain chip while they'd got you open? ;) I've heard it gives you telepathic powers. No brain chip for me - no doubt i'd end up having to pay to access the ability...