libra rising
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Surgery date : May 26th 2018 (AVR)
Discharge : June 18th 2018
Follow-up appointment : August 20th 2018
Arrived at 10.30 (just before) for 11 am consultation , as asked for pre-consultation tests. Had x-ray, ECG, and Echo, which took me to 11.56. Then I was sat waiting in Outpatients. I saw my consultant was running 30 minutes late, then noticed it change to 120 minutes ! I checked with Reception - was it okay to pop off and pay my post-op ward a visit ? Yes it was. She could text me if I was needed.
After ward visit sat again in Reception, expecting roughly a 1 pm consultation. 1 pm became 1.15 then 1.30 1.40 1.50. Finally at 1.55 I saw the consultant (sadly not my surgeon) who was delighted with everything, and said I was being discharged without the need for any further follow-up from Harefield Hospital.
What surprised me about the day is that my x-ray showed the presence still of some pleural effusion. Compared with the June x-ray, probably about a third of the pleural effusion remained. This was of no concern to my consultant, and probably shouldn't be to me, either.
I simply wondered if anyone here had experience of slow-shifting pleural effusion ?
Geoff
Discharge : June 18th 2018
Follow-up appointment : August 20th 2018
Arrived at 10.30 (just before) for 11 am consultation , as asked for pre-consultation tests. Had x-ray, ECG, and Echo, which took me to 11.56. Then I was sat waiting in Outpatients. I saw my consultant was running 30 minutes late, then noticed it change to 120 minutes ! I checked with Reception - was it okay to pop off and pay my post-op ward a visit ? Yes it was. She could text me if I was needed.
After ward visit sat again in Reception, expecting roughly a 1 pm consultation. 1 pm became 1.15 then 1.30 1.40 1.50. Finally at 1.55 I saw the consultant (sadly not my surgeon) who was delighted with everything, and said I was being discharged without the need for any further follow-up from Harefield Hospital.
What surprised me about the day is that my x-ray showed the presence still of some pleural effusion. Compared with the June x-ray, probably about a third of the pleural effusion remained. This was of no concern to my consultant, and probably shouldn't be to me, either.
I simply wondered if anyone here had experience of slow-shifting pleural effusion ?
Geoff