P1000389 by Jonathan Roberts, on Flickr
Been doing a lot of walking recently without a murmur - including a week's holiday up in Northumberland with the family (including the mad hound) where we spent most of each day climbing dunes, walking the beaches and generally getting a lot of exercise. Not a flicker from the ticker.
Started some very gentle jogging last week and was on session 4 this monday just gone when, 10 mins after getting home, I started to feel 'a bit shit' (that's the limit of my medical vocab). ECG at our GP showed I'd had a heart attack, one hour later I was having 3 stents fitted at Lincoln County Hospital. The care I received in the Coronary Care Unit was just the very best, the staff there are true super heroes, saving lives every day - I owe them more than I could ever repay.
Back home now, and convinced I've started rattling from all the pills.
Monday, 5 hours post-stents, sporting a nice little off-the-shoulder number:
Poorly by Boxertrixter, on Flickr
Great to hear you're up and about - As a successful heart patient myself (many years ago), I really wish you the best.
P1000367 by Jonathan Roberts, on Flickr
P1000380 by Jonathan Roberts, on Flickr
Still looking remarkably sharp buddy! Hope you’re on the mend, thinking of you.Been doing a lot of walking recently without a murmur - including a week's holiday up in Northumberland with the family (including the mad hound) where we spent most of each day climbing dunes, walking the beaches and generally getting a lot of exercise. Not a flicker from the ticker.
Started some very gentle jogging last week and was on session 4 this monday just gone when, 10 mins after getting home, I started to feel 'a bit shit' (that's the limit of my medical vocab). ECG at our GP showed I'd had a heart attack, one hour later I was having 3 stents fitted at Lincoln County Hospital. The care I received in the Coronary Care Unit was just the very best, the staff there are true super heroes, saving lives every day - I owe them more than I could ever repay.
Back home now, and convinced I've started rattling from all the pills.
Monday, 5 hours post-stents, sporting a nice little off-the-shoulder number:
Wishing you all the best for tomorrow and moving forward!Thanks for the 'get wells' chaps - it's appreciated. Getting there slowly, starting cardiac rehab tomorrow which I'm approaching with a mix of apprehension and positivity.
Good luck with the rehab. Mr Gromit. We've a friend who's a cardiac rehab physio. Her favourite saying to patients? “I'm not paid to be nice!”Thanks for the 'get wells' chaps - it's appreciated. Getting there slowly, starting cardiac rehab tomorrow which I'm approaching with a mix of apprehension and positivity.
Glad to hear everything has gone well for you, even if has been a long and intense journey. I hope you’re keeping well!A long year of multiple surgeries but it’s drawing to completion.
7 weeks ago I had the last of the procedures this year: facial feminisation surgery which is... intense: forehead reconstruction and reshaping, eyesocket recontouring, browline ground down, the face is peeled off to just below the eye sockets and bone reshaped with medical grade grinders and then I am stitched back with dissolvable gripper rodsunder the zig-zag suture alongside teeny tiny titanium screws leading to wire under the eyebrows holding it all until it heals. The nose is broken, straightened new profile and reshaped, the nostrils and other things dimensionally adjusted to be more feminine. Jawline was deemed feminine (which saved me an additional two years of orthodontics and jawline restructure), thank goodness.
I survived.
