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Offline Uncle Mort

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Re: Uncle Mort's latest NHS adventure
« Reply #15 on: November 27, 2015, 12:53:49 PM »
Part Three:

Off to Barts; I contact my son and he and his mum nip over to the house to get a few bits and pieces for my pending stay. Doc comes back to tell me that the transport has been ordered and will be here shortly. He also mentions that Barts have requested the use of “blues” (i.e. flashing lights)  eeek:

Ambulance crew arrive with trolley. Two very fetching young ladies. (well, they’re fetching me) The driver is small, blonde and a bit ditzy the other, tall and a more serious brunette. They strap me to the trolley, wire me up to the portable monitor and off we go.
 
Ditzy blonde: “ooh, I’ve never driven in London before”
Me:  eeek: eeek:
 
A quick dash down the M11, on to the North Circular and in via the A13. I timed it: 35 minutes. Tall brunette nice and chatty.

Arrive Barts, crew have trouble finding the ward but security guard turns up and shows us the way.

Ward nurse hands me fresh jim-jams, I go behind screen to change while nurse chats to ambulance crew.

I reappear,

Tall brunette: “nice pyjamas”
Me: “I know. I look like a beach castaway”
Ditzy blonde “tee-hee”
Nurse: “get in bed”
Me: “can I use the toilet first”
Nurse: “no you have to use a bottle”
Me: ”but I’m not plugged in yet”  cussing:

She relents, I wave cheerio to the lovely ambulance crew and a few minutes later I’m in bed and wired up to a load of high-tech equipment.

Duty doctor arrives to put in a cannula (the A&E one having fallen out some time back) He faffs around, “got it” I look, “I don’t think that’s in” I say. He ignores me and proceeds to flush. Agony! It’s like my arm is on fire. “that is extremely painful” I say through gritted teeth. He digs around, flushes again, same result.

Me: " censored: censored: censored:"

He gives up and I’m left to try to get to sleep.


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Re: Uncle Mort's latest NHS adventure
« Reply #16 on: November 27, 2015, 01:04:41 PM »
Amazing stuff Uncle, this is becoming the all new daily must read  :thumbsup:

Hope your progress to robust health continues despite the odd cannula fiasco or two. 

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Re: Uncle Mort's latest NHS adventure
« Reply #17 on: November 27, 2015, 01:12:20 PM »
Amazing stuff Uncle, this is becoming the all new daily must read  :thumbsup:

Hope your progress to robust health continues despite the odd cannula fiasco or two. 

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« Reply #18 on: November 27, 2015, 01:21:17 PM »
Cheers chaps  :thumbsup:

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Re: Uncle Mort's latest NHS adventure
« Reply #19 on: November 27, 2015, 01:41:08 PM »
Cheers chaps  :thumbsup:

Chin up, all will be fine now you are in Bart's hands.  :thumbsup:





























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« Reply #20 on: November 27, 2015, 03:28:04 PM »
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« Reply #21 on: November 28, 2015, 11:14:33 AM »
Part Four:

The weekend starts here. Another 4 bed bay but this one is state of the art. Barts is undergoing redevelopment and I’m in the newest part (linky) Unfortunately, despite this being the 21st century they haven’t bothered to install public wi-fi so my little notebook computer is of no use. It also turns out that there is no mobile phone signal. So I’m effectively cut off from the outside world.  Banghead

There’s not much to say about weekends in hospital. Nothing happens. I do get unplugged from my monitor for a while so that I can use the desk phone to contact my sprogs. And I get a visit from the duty doctor of my specialist heart unit ~ Kate, and she is yumster. eyes:   Enough to get anyone’s heart racing. We discuss what investigations need to be done. An Echo and a MRI (or maybe a CT scan) are mooted for the beginning of the week.
 
My son and my Ex visit on Sunday but apart from that, Zzzzzz…

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« Reply #22 on: November 28, 2015, 11:33:11 AM »
Part Four:

The weekend starts here. Another 4 bed bay but this one is state of the art. Barts is undergoing redevelopment and I’m in the newest part (linky) Unfortunately, despite this being the 21st century they haven’t bothered to install public wi-fi so my little notebook computer is of no use. It also turns out that there is no mobile phone signal. So I’m effectively cut off from the outside worldBanghead

There’s not much to say about weekends in hospital. Nothing happens. I do get unplugged from my monitor for a while so that I can use the desk phone to contact my sprogs. And I get a visit from the duty doctor of my specialist heart unit ~ Kate, and she is yumster. eyes:   Enough to get anyone’s heart racing. We discuss what investigations need to be done. An Echo and a MRI (or maybe a CT scan) are mooted for the beginning of the week.
 
My son and my Ex visit on Sunday but apart from that, Zzzzzz…

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Re: Uncle Mort's latest NHS adventure
« Reply #23 on: November 28, 2015, 11:38:46 AM »
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Re: Uncle Mort's latest NHS adventure
« Reply #24 on: November 28, 2015, 04:24:46 PM »
Can you watch the footy... rubschin:

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Re: Uncle Mort's latest NHS adventure
« Reply #25 on: November 28, 2015, 05:40:41 PM »
All this happened last week, I'm out now and just recounting events in digestible chunks.

Anyway to cut this long story short, on Monday I have a CT scan ~ shows no narrowing of my arteries ~ Hurrah!

Tuesday starts with an echo and then a stress test, more bloods  ~ all look OK  :thumbsup:

Final diagnosis ~ SVT, no complications so I'm set free at about 7pm and make my way home. One final twist ~ the next morning I come to take the first of my new drug regime as prescribed and provided by the hospital. Turns out they've given me someone else's prescription.  doh:

Couple of phone calls and then the ward manager calls me. He apologises and arranges for the correct drugs to be couriered over. I expect someone's head to roll for this  Sinister:

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« Reply #26 on: November 28, 2015, 05:44:59 PM »
Kate?????????
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Re: Uncle Mort's latest NHS adventure
« Reply #27 on: November 28, 2015, 05:48:02 PM »
Last week........BM take that half of mild off my tab please ... noooo:

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« Reply #28 on: November 28, 2015, 08:30:37 PM »
Good news, if delayed.  :thumbsup:

Glad to have you back to "normal".
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« Reply #29 on: November 29, 2015, 10:58:49 AM »
Glad to hear you are feeling better Uncle   :thumbsup: cloud9:

Must have been scary at times  scared2: scared2:   happy100

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