Well that was a crap day!

[Tim Marlow]

Tim,
hope you are feeling a bit better & now you've started the treatment process, then things can only get better..............
Unfortunately we only hear the bad stories about the NHS - I reckon the majority of people have good experiences, I know I have, but happy stories don't make good headlines!
Dave

Cheers Dave. Too right they do. Only the bad stories sell papers as they say.

[Tim Marlow]

All the very best to you Tim.

Cheers Garry, appreciate it.

[Tim Marlow]

Hope you feel better soon, I had my Booster on Saturday 12pm by 1am my heart rate was through the roof and was panting, needless to say with throwing up a few times i didnt get much sleep, prob worrying i had myocarditis didnt help :smiling5: :rolling:, but all good now.

Not good Steve. Mine was nowhere near that pronounced, so I just kept thinking “it’s the booster, it’ll go in a couple of days”… turned out to be a lot more serious….under treatment now so on the up though :thumb2:

[Tim Marlow]

Sorry to hear about your problem Tim.
Wishing you all the best with your treatment. Glad you aren't under GWH Swindon, the worst hospital in the country.

Bill

Cheers Bill…..no bad hospitals, just bad board level senior managers who couldn’t direct traffic!

[Tim Marlow]

Wow Mr. Marlow, it appears your luck of late hasn't been too good. Great to hear you had good service and a quick diagnose of the situation. I hope the treatment rids you of the problem and life gets back to normal ASAP Tim, otherwise we'll have to take you out in the back 40 and put you to sleep......Or, maybe to vets...........

Gute Besserung
Allen

Vets are pretty good around here as well Allen :tongue-out3: Got the diagnosis today….quite sobering judging by the mildness of the symptoms.

[yak face]

Sorry to hear youre having a rough time Tim , needless to say sending best wishes for a speedy recovery, cheers tony

[Tim Marlow]

Hope all goes well Tim.
All My doctor ever says when I say I get short of breath and sometimes dizzy, is a rather rude "loose some weight and we can talk about it after"!

Not great. I know what caused mine now and it was quite a sobering discussion! It went pretty well, by the way, and if your symptoms persist insist on a proper check up of your cardiovascular system.

[Tim Marlow]

Best of luck, Tim....and here's a big hope things will improve.

Ron

Already on the up Ron. Thanks for your concern…

[Tim Marlow]

All the best Tim, good to hear that at least the NHS is still working back in Blighty.

John

Cheers John. The NHS is working damn hard John, far beyond its design envelope. The way the staff are treated by political management is frankly disgusting though.

[Tim Marlow]

Tim. Sorry to hear about uour woes and wish you a speedy recovery. The NHS is a wonderful institution the only thing wrong with it are the people that run it.

Cheers Scottie. You are not wrong there……anyone that seeks high office should be automatically barred from taking it in my opinion……

[Tim Marlow]

Sorry to hear youre having a rough time Tim , needless to say sending best wishes for a speedy recovery, cheers tony

Heers Tony. Appreciate the best wishes.

[langy71]

Crikey Tim, that doesn't sound too good at all, take it easy mate and get plenty of rest, and above all else Get Well Soon mate
the very best wishes from up here in the midlands

[Tim Marlow]

Well, I now know what the problem is…..
You just know it’s not going to be good news when the consultant says “wow, I’m surprised you managed to walk in here that well after what I’ve just seen”……. and I was slowly hobbling in using a stick as support…..
Turns out I have a Deep vein thrombosis in my left leg, causing the pain. That has developed a side salad of Pulmonary Embolism in my lung, hence the breathlessness. Quite sobering as this can easily be fatal if not corrected….the clot was almost certainly caused by the immobility following my recent severe RA event.

I’m now on blood thinners for six months with regular checks to ensure they are doing the job breaking down the clots as required. I’ll take that as a good result.
Excellent service at YDH again, despite their working capacity being pushed to the limit. This was obvious because overnight the department’s consultation cubicles had been filled with beds required for medical patients so that hospital throughput could be maintained. Despite this, the staff were again consummately professional, dealing with their patients compassionately and with the minimum of fuss in whatever space could be made available. They deserve so much more than this :sad:

[Tim Marlow]

Crikey Tim, that doesn't sound too good at all, take it easy mate and get plenty of rest, and above all else Get Well Soon mate
the very best wishes from up here in the midlands

Cheers Chris, not too great to be honest, though I just feel a bit under the weather with a sore leg…..

[Guest]

Good that its been diagnosed Tim and you have had good service form the hospital.
Take it easy as Chris says.