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...all while you are awake...
You're a brave man... Hope all goes well and that your recovery is swift.
...all while you are awake...
Hope things improve for you...... for me and guys that know me have noticed I can't get far going up inclines etc without getting out of breath, so no point going on meets with lovely scenery and hills. Well tomorrow I'm going in hospital and they are hopefully going to open up arteries in my heart...fascinating stuff these days as they put a probe in your arm and send it to your heart to see and expand arteries...erm all while you are awake and if you are seen early can go home in the evening.
Anyone interested in what they can do, it is called angioplasty and remember guys to look out for early symptoms of heart problems and don't confuse it with indigestion or pains in arms or back or chest bone etc......thinking you've pulled a muscle.
fascinating stuff these days as they put a probe in your arm and send it to your heart to see and expand arteries...erm all while you are awake and if you are seen early can go home in the evening.
You're a brave man... Hope all goes well and that your recovery is swift.
It is absolutely fascinating - I had it done to repair damage caused by complications after pneumonia (caused pericarditis, inflamation of the "bag" around the heart that stops it rubbing on your ribs etc - well, if it gets inflamed the BAG rubs on the heart, and it damaged one of the arteries... 6 months on, the artery is basically almost blocked and I wake up in the middle of the night basically dying...) Long story short, angioplasty, stents, fixed the blockage, walked out of the hospital the next day and i've been fine.
But the actual procedure, lying on the slab watching a mahoosive TV screen with a x-ray video of your heart, and the bits of tubing probes worming their way around the artieries (in my case all the way up from my groin... it would have been MUCH less hassle from the wrist but the size of the stents and the "rotary ablation tool" (think the thing dyno-rod use to unblock drains - a big spinny thing powered by compressed air.... whizzing around in your major arteries) precluded going in by the smaller access in the wrist.
Fascinating, inject marker dye into the bloodstream, artery blacks out so they can see it - highlighted blockage - artery looked like manchester ship canal on screen - narrowing to the Huddersfield Narrow for around 3cm then back to manchester ship canal. In actual terms it was more like 8mm, down to under 1.5mm (because the 1.5mm probe wouldn't go through the gap!) then back to 8mm. So, 4 drill heads, progressively larger until it was clear, then the stents fitting. Little balloon on end of probe, carries stent into place, then "ok Mark, brace yourself, and if I say Cough, then Cough as hard as you can, because it'll start your heart back up without having to hit you with the Defib..." Saw the little balloon start to swell into the Hindenburg, it all went a little dark, "COUGH", lights came back on... "Once more", Hindenburgh time, Cough, Dark, COUGH, lights back on. "right, we'll give you a bit of a rest for 5 while we fit the next stent".... Apparently, as the blockage was on a "corner" of my heart (who knew it had corners - maybe it IS a swinging brick like my Ex always said) they had to fit 2 stents, one "nested" into the other on the bend, so there was double the metal to hold the artery open over the corner.
Yeah, it's fascinating to watch - provided you can keep enough detachment not to be s***ting yourself that someone is playing dyno-rod with the one bit of you that HAS to keep working if you're gonna keep from pushing up daisies.
Yeah I’d want to be sleeping through anything like that too.erm well thanks for scaring me but pleased you are OK.......I was hoping they would put me out so I can sleep through it all.
I'm back to bore you with my photos and stories.....and for the older folks who might need angioplasty in future and just my experience:- they inserted the gadget in the wrist artery and you don't feel a thing until they have do some work on an artery...well you know you see actors on tv gripping their chest having a heart attack, it's because of the pain and I had that .
Anyway I have to take it easy for a week then hopefully it will be a lot easier walking\cycling up hills
Great news Brian, and a very helpful description of the experience for anyone who might have to face it in the future.I'm back to bore you with my photos and stories.....and for the older folks who might need angioplasty in future and just my experience:- they inserted the gadget in the wrist artery and you don't feel a thing until they have do some work on an artery...well you know you see actors on tv gripping their chest having a heart attack, it's because of the pain and I had that .
Anyway I have to take it easy for a week then hopefully it will be a lot easier walking\cycling up hills
I had something like that, the solution (!) was to get new fixer. Camerabase in Morningside should have some in stock.Well, I may have been out of the game a while... My fixer had something floating in it. I can't quite work out if it's the inside of the black bottle it lived in or silver come out of solution!
Thankfully I remembered I had half a bottle of concentrate under the sink hidden there when we moved!I had something like that, the solution (!) was to get new fixer. Camerabase in Morningside should have some in stock.
I'm back to bore you with my photos and stories.....and for the older folks who might need angioplasty in future and just my experience:- they inserted the gadget in the wrist artery and you don't feel a thing until they have do some work on an artery...well you know you see actors on tv gripping their chest having a heart attack, it's because of the pain and I had that .
Anyway I have to take it easy for a week then hopefully it will be a lot easier walking\cycling up hills
@TheBigYin Can you please sticky October's thread:
https://www.talkphotography.co.uk/t...-2019-october-weather-and-its-effects.701915/
....and unsticky August's:
https://www.talkphotography.co.uk/t...the-year-2019-august-decay-poll-added.699351/
Thanks!
Thanks!done (belatedly)
Excellent news Janet.Good news! Someone has volunteered to organise and run FPOTY 2020
Rather than just announce who it is straight away, I'm going to give them a bit of time to formulate their plans and then leap out of the closet when they're ready (or possibly change their mind!)
The 70m towers of the Kessock Bridge appearing above the sea fog on a windless morning last week, with Ord Hill centre stage and Ben Wyvis beyond. It was freezing under the blanket of fog, and windscreens were being scraped for the first time this autumn, but above the fog it was surprisingly mild in the warm sun. This fog is not unusual for these conditions, but was bad enough that day to stop planes taking off or landing at Inverness Airport for much of the morning, so they were circling overhead.
And you with an avatar like that? (and a zoo on your doorstep!) Hopefully you'll get some time to get out and about in the next 5 weeks or so.I'm really struggling for next month, short of getting the cats in front of a motor drive 35mm and hoping they do something interesting in the few seconds it takes to burn 36 exposures, i've got nothing.
And you with an avatar like that? (and a zoo on your doorstep!) Hopefully you'll get some time to get out and about in the next 5 weeks or so.
Nowhere does it say that it has to be a live animal! Isn't Edinburgh littered with statues of wee dug's and chaps on horses? Maybe I should pay a visit to Llangollen:I'm really struggling for next month, short of getting the cats in front of a motor drive 35mm and hoping they do something interesting in the few seconds it takes to burn 36 exposures, i've got nothing.
I'm really struggling for next month, short of getting the cats in front of a motor drive 35mm and hoping they do something interesting in the few seconds it takes to burn 36 exposures, i've got nothing.