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Uncle Mort's latest NHS adventure
« on: November 25, 2015, 05:40:45 PM »
Part One:

It started last Thursday morning. Whilst brushing my teeth I noticed an odd fluttering in my chest. Checked my pulse and it seemed a bit fast. I have a pulse oxmeter so stuck that on my finger ~ pulse rate 198 beats per minute.  eeek:     

Dialled 999, paramedic arrives, take ECG, looks perplexed and calls for ambulance. I’m carted off to the local A&E.  eeek: eeek:

At A&E doctor looks at ECG, looks perplexed. Fortunately I had the presence of mind to grab some health info from my records including contact details for the specialist clinical team I’m under at Barts hospital. A&E doc and the Barts doc confer and between them agree to slow my heart using Adenosine. Doc has a couple of medical students trailing around with him so he gets one to insert a cannula. He actually made a good job of it, just a bit messy (didn't get the plug in quickly enough)

Anyway, the drugs work (makes you feel very weird for a few moments, though I didn’t get the sense of impending doom that is often associated with its use.) Basically it switched me off and on again.  eeek:

Normally, after a bit of a rest, you can go home after this. Unfortunately because of the unusual architecture of my heart Barts request that I be kept in hospital and monitored for 24 hours.  confused:

TBC...

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Re: Uncle Mort's latest NHS adventure
« Reply #1 on: November 25, 2015, 05:42:48 PM »
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Re: Uncle Mort's latest NHS adventure
« Reply #2 on: November 25, 2015, 05:47:07 PM »
Part One:

It started last Thursday morning. Whilst brushing my teeth I noticed an odd fluttering in my chest. Checked my pulse and it seemed a bit fast. I have a pulse oxmeter so stuck that on my finger ~ pulse rate 198 beats per minute.  eeek:     

Dialled 999, paramedic arrives, take ECG, looks perplexed and calls for ambulance. I’m carted off to the local A&E.  eeek: eeek:

At A&E doctor looks at ECG, looks perplexed. Fortunately I had the presence of mind to grab some health info from my records including contact details for the specialist clinical team I’m under at Barts hospital. A&E doc and the Barts doc confer and between them agree to slow my heart using Adenosine. Doc has a couple of medical students trailing around with him so he gets one to insert a cannula. He actually made a good job of it, just a bit messy (didn't get the plug in quickly enough)

Anyway, the drugs work (makes you feel very weird for a few moments, though I didn’t get the sense of impending doom that is often associated with its use.) Basically it switched me off and on again.  eeek:

Normally, after a bit of a rest, you can go home after this. Unfortunately because of the unusual architecture of my heart Barts request that I be kept in hospital and monitored for 24 hours.  confused:

TBC...

Bloody hell!  eeek:
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Re: Uncle Mort's latest NHS adventure
« Reply #3 on: November 25, 2015, 05:48:30 PM »
It gets better  whistle:

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« Reply #4 on: November 25, 2015, 05:59:28 PM »
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« Reply #5 on: November 25, 2015, 06:00:40 PM »
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Re: Uncle Mort's latest NHS adventure
« Reply #6 on: November 25, 2015, 07:28:18 PM »
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Re: Uncle Mort's latest NHS adventure
« Reply #7 on: November 25, 2015, 08:31:01 PM »
 eeek: Take care old chap. Sounds like you are in the best hands. :thumbsup:

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Re: Uncle Mort's latest NHS adventure
« Reply #8 on: November 25, 2015, 09:42:30 PM »
eeek: Take care old chap. Sounds like you are in the best hands. :thumbsup:

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Re: Uncle Mort's latest NHS adventure
« Reply #9 on: November 26, 2015, 10:19:30 AM »
Part Two:

So, here I am in the hospital assessment ward wearing my NHS jim-jams and tethered by a 10 foot cable to a heart monitor. Oddly enough I feel fine. Apart from having bloods taken I’m left to my own devices.

I’m in a standard NHS 4-bed bay with three other men. Opposite is 21 stone chap with COPD and diabetes who looks like he will expire at any second. He’s wearing a too short t-shirt and low slung jogging bottoms so all I see is a vast expanse of belly pocked with white marks caused by what I assume is his diabetic pen. Next to him is a Len Goodman lookalike, only smaller and skinnier. He is a cheery eastender so naturally I avoid talking to him. The third chap is pleasant and quickly spoken. Turns out he’s a church minister and he gets plenty of earnest Christian visitors. Both him and Len are heart attack suffers of some sort are also tethered to monitors. We all feel like dogs on a leash.

Sadly, none of the nurses can be described as sexy.

Next day (Friday) doc tells me that my troponin level has come back positive indicative of a heart attack.  eeek: This leads to further discussions with the Barts specialists. I potter around all day, as far as my cable lets me that is.

Early evening the doc returns.
Me: “Is it good news?” 
Doc: “define good news”
Me: “I get dressed and walk out of here”
Doc:  noooo:
 “because of your raised troponin level Barts want you over there ASAP so we are arranging transport.”
Me:  eeek: eeek: eeek:

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Re: Uncle Mort's latest NHS adventure
« Reply #10 on: November 26, 2015, 10:22:18 AM »
 eeek: eeek: eeek: 

Hope Bart's give you betterer news.
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Re: Uncle Mort's latest NHS adventure
« Reply #11 on: November 26, 2015, 10:23:31 AM »
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« Reply #12 on: November 26, 2015, 12:53:43 PM »
Fingers crossed Uncle....
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Re: Uncle Mort's latest NHS adventure
« Reply #13 on: November 26, 2015, 02:17:53 PM »
Get well soon..

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Re: Uncle Mort's latest NHS adventure
« Reply #14 on: November 26, 2015, 08:47:17 PM »
 eeek: eeek: eeek:

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