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[MRS B 274]

Col, don’t over do it. Good to hear that your neighbours are helping out. We’re all guilty of thinking we can do more than we’re capable of, young minds, old bodies. Take it gently. Annoying but true.

Mrs B

[MargieH 7,393]

@DJ360  good to see your post.  How far away are the shops?  Hope you’ve managed to get a good night’s sleep and that your knee will have settled down this morning x

[DJ360 6,335]

Thanks all.

I think I've just been a silly boy. The shops are about 500m away so the round trip maybe 4 times anything I've done so far. Took me 1 hour and 20 mins including 'Eyups'. I guess standing for that length of time wasn't very smart so when I got home I literally couldn't bend my knee to sit down. The pain is the worst I've experienced so far, by a country mile.

It woke me at 05:30 this morning but I managed to doze until about 9:00.

I am still home alone till tonight but can get about with care..Will call the 'Enhanced Recovery Team' later for advice, just to be safe and to find out how much to push on with exercises etc.

Annoyed with myself because I'm not far off 6 weeks now and was hoping to start both driving and swimming soon.

[Rob.L 1,025]

One of those never rains, but pours, days.

 

Went for my pre-op assessment for my prostatectomy, to get rid of the cancer they found a few weeks ago. Everything was going swimmingly until the nurse did an ECG. Turns out I have a previously-undiagnosed atrial fibrillation (irregular heartbeat) and the anaesthetist is unwilling to let me go through with the surgery until this is investigated further, so has referred me back to my GP.

 

Hopefully, I’ll be able to get past Attila the receptionist at some stage and speak to the GP to get a referral to Cardiology for them to decide if I’m safe to be operated on.

[Beekay 4,263]

Best of luck that you get it sorted Rob., sooner rather than later . I wish you well.  B.

[nonnaB 4,752]

Rob I know the feeling. It seems we go to the moon and back when all is going well then you’re taken back to earth with news you weren’t expecting. Hope you soon get an appointment with cardiologist to be able to carry on with your op. I wish you all the best.

[Cliff Ton 9,935]

Rob, Nottstalgians have a pretty good track record of dealing with these kind of problems and coming successfully out the other side.

 

No doubt you will become a member of that club.

[Rob.L 1,025]

Thanks for the thoughts and advice, all. This is all quite new to me as I’ve never really had anything worse than a cold or Covid in the last 66 years, never even been in a hospital bed, and now have two things to get bothered about on top of the wife’s recent heart problems.

 

I’m just irritated, more than anything else, as I’ve built myself up for the operation and the subsequent recuperation period but now seem to be going backwards when there’s so many things I want to do. 

[LizzieM 9,222]

Rob, I’ve sent you a FB PM, thinking of you, don’t worry. 

[IAN FINN 568]

Hope all goes well Rob i had my prostate removed eight ago it was a four operation which was done lapriscopically  (spelling) i was home the next day at dinner time it was quite a pleasant experience as far as operations go i asked the Doctor if i would be able to play the piano after he said yes so i said thats great because i could not play it before the operation, hope everything gets sorted with heart problem all the best.

 

 

[MargieH 7,393]

Rob, Hope all will soon be sorted out and that cardiology will pass you as fit for the op.  

[nonnaB 4,752]

Rob apart from having my tonsils out and have stitches in my chin when I fell off my bike, I’d never been in a hospital until I came to live in Italy. I seemed to have everything wrong with me from knee op to major ops . But I’m here to tell the story so don’t worry it’ll be ok.

[Beekay 4,263]

Nonna, there's a lesson there...Don't go to Italy if you're in good health. (Only joking). Don't forget me pictures.x

[Rob.L 1,025]

A brief update. Rang the GP surgery at 8am. Start to finish, the call lasted less than five minutes. Got called back by the GP ten minutes later and by 9:15 I was sat in her consulting room, being tested. She’s prescribed the medication she thinks will help resolve the problem and is confident that the surgery can go ahead as planned.

 

Got to say I love the NHS!

[nonnaB 4,752]

Things CAN be done in a hurry. Glad to hear that.

[DJ360 6,335]

 

Rob. Hope all goes well.

Meanwhile on the knee front.. Discussing with others it does seem that the one common factor is that there is no common factor. Recovery seems to take a different path for each individual and I've certainly experienced the 1 step forward 2 back thing.

At present I'm really struggling to bend the knee as far as previously, but on the positive side have got confident enough to move around the house carefully without crutches. (Except for stairs)

 

 Of course the reality is that 'it is what it is' and just has to be dealt with. I have my 6 week follow up appt. with , I assume, the surgeon or his team next Weds. II'll explore a couple of issues with them and my 1:1 physio wants to see me immediately after.

Meanwhile I got a call out of the blue from a young lady who introduced herself as a 'Heart Failure Nurse'. An encouraging title......she also wants to see me on Weds, to discuss optimising my meds. Seems my Cardio Consultant has discharged me into her care.. He's told her I have peripheral oedema, which I don't.. so it should be interesting to see what else he's got wrong...

 Onwards and upwards!!

[Beekay 4,263]

Best wishes Col. and 'hop to it !

[Jill Sparrow 9,563]

Sounds like he's been doing the Hokey Cokey.... One step forward, two steps back...

[mary1947 1,875]

Watching Nature,

Yesterday out side, having a loverly G nT went for a minute to give one of my flower basket some water.

Sat down to finish my G n T and inside my drink lay a very large bumblebee. Well what a way to go drowned in a G n T, gentely I scooped it out and placed him on the table. Then I saw one of his legs move, then his other leg, nexr his antena's  then very slowly he raised up, but only one of his wings looked in good shape, then he started to walk, before i could help him he had fallen on to our decking, walking quite merily along the decking, then out of a join ran a big spider. Well thats the end (i thought) but know the Bumblebee frought off the spider and carried on along the decking.

WHAT COURAGE THAT LITTLE BUMBLBEE HAD.

[Beekay 4,263]

@mary1947, maybe you should have got your camera out, it would have made some interesting shots.

[nonnaB 4,752]

Think sometimes insects and animals are more entertaining than humans. Only sometimes though.

[loppylugs 8,336]

That wasn't courage.  He was drunk as a skunk. 

[Jill Sparrow 9,563]

His wings would dry out and he'd be fine, apart from an almighty hangover!

[Beekay 4,263]

He'll probably make a 'beeline' straight back to the hive, to explain to his missus where he's been.

[mary1947 1,875]

BEE camera was a second thought after the pub crawl.