Woodbutcher
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Well, I'm over the first hurdle .... All my worries about the procedure and it's results proved pointless.
The NHS on this occassion were fantastic too. When I went into the theatre or lab or what ever they call it, with all the bleeping machines and monitors, the anaethetist (no idea how to spell that!) commented on how worried I looked and asked if I liked vodka ? Going on to say, "Well you'll love this." injecting me with smile on her face and a house double! "Thirty seconds from now all will be well..." She was bang on too, it was lovely. Then a quick shot into my wrist with the the same stuff my dentist uses a few minutes before my face looks like I've had a stroke !
Now you're in a mildly trippy but relaxed state and all is well. I was so worried about what the magic blood dye would reveal, having looked at several of them on Google images, blocked, clogged and damaged coronaries... And remembering every fried breakfast, Mc Donald burger and Kebab I'd ever eaten(mind you after several pints the Kebabs rarely stayed down long!) !
Though as a general rule I really do look after myself, honest !
On commenting to the doctor that I was scared to look he reassured me that there was really not much to see but a perfectly healthy set of arteries ! Yeay .... I was delighted ! However if he had found anything then just prior to heart surgery would have been the best time to find it I suppose, and put things right with a full service ?
So, back to the ward, and fantastic after care, starting with toast, jam and a lovely cuppa tea ! Then really friendly nurses checking me every ten mins or so and a generally up beat atmosphere around the ward.
There was still a hole in my wrist from where the catherter went in. Covering it was a special wrist band with a clear inflated pad over the hole. The pad is deflated carefully every 20 mins or so until it's released and replaced with a plaster after a couple of hours. That went well, then the nurse went to rip the plaster and little plastic pipe thing sticking into my other arm out when, like a baby (but it hurt, honest!) I shrieked and clasped my right fist causing a pretty spectacular squirting of blood from my now reopened wrist wound !!
What a blood bath, sending the nurse wizzing round the bed to stem it best she could ... I think she was most worried about freaking out my daughter who was sat chatting to me on the bed ! Jodi pointed out to the nurse that in her job as a vetinary nurse specialising large animals, fountains of blood from main arteries are a daily sight for her !
Anyway... All in all it was good day out and great results. So if by chance you're worrying about having one, then dont, because I've a tiny pain threshold and it was fine... Just so long as you can handle a plaster being removed you'll be fine !
The NHS on this occassion were fantastic too. When I went into the theatre or lab or what ever they call it, with all the bleeping machines and monitors, the anaethetist (no idea how to spell that!) commented on how worried I looked and asked if I liked vodka ? Going on to say, "Well you'll love this." injecting me with smile on her face and a house double! "Thirty seconds from now all will be well..." She was bang on too, it was lovely. Then a quick shot into my wrist with the the same stuff my dentist uses a few minutes before my face looks like I've had a stroke !
Now you're in a mildly trippy but relaxed state and all is well. I was so worried about what the magic blood dye would reveal, having looked at several of them on Google images, blocked, clogged and damaged coronaries... And remembering every fried breakfast, Mc Donald burger and Kebab I'd ever eaten(mind you after several pints the Kebabs rarely stayed down long!) !
Though as a general rule I really do look after myself, honest !
On commenting to the doctor that I was scared to look he reassured me that there was really not much to see but a perfectly healthy set of arteries ! Yeay .... I was delighted ! However if he had found anything then just prior to heart surgery would have been the best time to find it I suppose, and put things right with a full service ?
So, back to the ward, and fantastic after care, starting with toast, jam and a lovely cuppa tea ! Then really friendly nurses checking me every ten mins or so and a generally up beat atmosphere around the ward.
There was still a hole in my wrist from where the catherter went in. Covering it was a special wrist band with a clear inflated pad over the hole. The pad is deflated carefully every 20 mins or so until it's released and replaced with a plaster after a couple of hours. That went well, then the nurse went to rip the plaster and little plastic pipe thing sticking into my other arm out when, like a baby (but it hurt, honest!) I shrieked and clasped my right fist causing a pretty spectacular squirting of blood from my now reopened wrist wound !!
What a blood bath, sending the nurse wizzing round the bed to stem it best she could ... I think she was most worried about freaking out my daughter who was sat chatting to me on the bed ! Jodi pointed out to the nurse that in her job as a vetinary nurse specialising large animals, fountains of blood from main arteries are a daily sight for her !
Anyway... All in all it was good day out and great results. So if by chance you're worrying about having one, then dont, because I've a tiny pain threshold and it was fine... Just so long as you can handle a plaster being removed you'll be fine !
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