Well that was a crap day!

[Mark1]

All the best with that Tim hope the treatment and bit of excercise gets you sorted out mate.

[SteveH]

Good to hear you have a diagnosis Tim.
As you said though

""I’ve got to take it easy, but not sit around too much……bit of a square circle that""

Not that easy but better to know and be proactive and potter about and work towards a recovery rather than the alternative.
I am sure you will get into the swing of pottering about
Enjoy the change of pace
Take care
Regards
Steve H

[Tim Marlow]

All the best with that Tim hope the treatment and bit of excercise gets you sorted out mate.

Cheers Mark. I’m hoping so too.

[Tim Marlow]

Good to hear you have a diagnosis Tim.
As you said though

""I’ve got to take it easy, but not sit around too much……bit of a square circle that""

Not that easy but better to know and be proactive and potter about and work towards a recovery rather than the alternative.
I am sure you will get into the swing of pottering about
Enjoy the change of pace
Take care
Regards
Steve H

Many thanks Steve. Good advice. Forewarned is forearmed and all that

[adt70hk]

Hi Tim,

Obviously pleased to hear they have a diagnosis and have caught it in time but must be pretty scary to hear that diagnosis....

ATB.

Andrew

[colin m]

That's scary stuff Tim, but glad to hear things are going well. And well done to you for acting on it. Too many men would be a bit like. 'Well let's see what happens' type of thing.

[Tim Marlow]

Hi Tim,

Obviously pleased to hear they have a diagnosis and have caught it in time but must be pretty scary to hear that diagnosis....

ATB.

Andrew

What is scary Andrew is that the mildness of the symptoms didn’t match the severity of the illness. I truly didn’t think I had anything serious until the Saturday night. I’d been living with the slight breathlessness and dizziness for a week by then…..won’t make that mistake again…..

[Tim Marlow]

That's scary stuff Tim, but glad to hear things are going well. And well done to you for acting on it. Too many men would be a bit like. 'Well let's see what happens' type of thing.

I was one of them Colin. Didn’t think it was particularly serious. Just thought I’d bring it up at my GP annual review on Monday, until the leg pain forced my hand…

As an aside, I’d recommend anyone to buy a pulse oximeter from Amazon or such. They are pretty cheap. I ordered one after the walking problem Saturday, and it was at home after I’d been to the GP Sunday. It showed I had these pulmonary vascular issues straight away. if I’d had that at the start of the week I would have caught it much sooner.

[Jim R]

We bought an oxygen reader thingy which you put your finger in to show O2 percentage. We also bought a blood pressure measurer and a digital thermometer. We bought them at the start of the Covid epidemic. We find their readings can be reassuring.

[Tim Marlow]

We bought an oxygen reader thingy which you put your finger in to show O2 percentage. We also bought a blood pressure measurer and a digital thermometer. We bought them at the start of the Covid epidemic. We find their readings can be reassuring.

Yep, the finger thingy is a pulse oximeter Jim. Very useful device :thumb2:
If the pulse number is higher than your oxygen number when you are at rest you have an issue……
Got the others as well, mostly to check for potential infection now I am immunity compromised……

[Lee Drennen]

Just catching up Tim hope your feeling better have in there

[PaulinKendal]

Ah Tim, what a bummer!

They deserve so much more than this :sad:

Don't they just! Heroes all.

All the best.

[Tim Marlow]

Just catching up Tim hope your feeling better have in there

Feeling better Lee, but I think this one is a real long haul job……minimal activity and not left alone in the house for the next two weeks, for example….

[Tim Marlow]

Ah Tim, what a bummer!


Don't they just! Heroes all.

All the best.

Cheers Paul. As my two cousins (both nurses) and my wife (also a nurse) always tell me, we’re not heroes, just people doing our jobs to the best of our ability. Does seem like lions led by Donkeys though doesn’t it :thumb2:

[Andy the Sheep]

I'm late, as almost always, in joining the rabble and scrolling your thread I turned from the initially worried status reading about your problem to the relieved one when I learnt it had been correctly and swiftly diagnosed, that you are now under treatment and that your morale is high.
I kept my compression stockings as a souvenir from my little nose surgery I had more than 1 year ago: I still remember the fierce struggle I had trying to wear them, but that was very useful in distracting my mind from the incoming surgery.
My best wishes for a swift recovery and, if I may give you an advice, be aware of blades while on blood thinners as bleeding would be very difficult to stop.

Andrea