wasn't expecting this.

[Stan Carter]

#4, Brian, I did smoke up till 15 years ago....
regards, stan

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi Stan.
Good to hear you were sensible mate and went early to the Dr, when that happens the treatment is always successful. Look after yourself and we are all thinking about you. Just think what would have happened if you had been on the Builder and the Sipper had to do the op ha ha. that will cheer you up no end.
Cheers Des

[Charlie Hannah]

Sorry to hear that Stan, good thing is you caught it early. Hope everything comes good. Wish you every success! Cheers.

[John Pruden]

stan a lot is down to the speed from finding to surgery mine took less than 5 weeks from finding to cut out years ago it would have taken well over a year to treat I have spent 2 days this week in dock two medicines I have been on for years have been killing blood cells and still having problems with it I had a nose bleed through the night but it was clots coming out I was taken in and the quack told me if it was not for the nose bleed I would have had another stroke but vessels are busting all over and bruises all over my body hands arms and legs still onwards and upwards allways mate fight every day mate life is good? jp

[John Pruden]

Victoria I had not bean to any doctor until I was 58 now I am never away 17 different proscriptions per day some three times a day the heart specialist told me some had been killing me enzymes and T CELLS {whatever they are} are not working due to a gland that makes them until then I am a quine pig some that's keeping me going are doing the opposite and if blood cells are busting on the outside what is going on in the inside I go for blood tests every week every day is a fight for me but I have the constitution of a rhino and will never give up just counted 8 bruises on my hands and arms this morning my skin is like plastic?jp

[Tony Taylor]

My sincere apologies I didn't mean to offend you. Having been in the allied medical field for 45yrs I am always alert when I hear of those sort of things. My father being a Pharmacist, an uncle a doctor and an aunt a nurse I guess it was just a concerned response.
Some of the things I have seen during that time... it is just as well the general public stays ignorant.
Hear you go "T cell" live for years, have several functions, but primarily mediate cellular immune response. They are made in bone marrow and mature in the thymus gland
One kind the "helper T Cell" affects the production of antibodies. Mosby's Medical Dictionary, so at least you have a better idea what they are now.
"Enzyme" a protein produced by living cells that catalyzes chemical reactions in organic matter( that take place in within the cells)
I am glad you have a good constitution and obviously a positive approach.
Keep those doctors on their toes, there are always new approaches coming out and some old ones people seem to have forgotten that work just as well
I also have bruising from time to time, and had to have blood tests, my doctor later said because of my occupation ( radiation) she was worried I had leukemia. I still get them and vessels such as yourself bursting mainly in my hands, no one knows what is the cause.... so carry on and deny seems to work for me.
Cheers Vicki

I have the same issue, even light knocks cause very noticeable bruising very quickly, skin tears like tissue paper.

[Rodney Mills]

My turn I guess:

I was admitted to hospital yesterday to have my artery checked out (as I understood it) to make sure there was not a blockage to cause a problem to replace my sticky heart valve in August, as I had some heart pain last week.

I was admitted, prepped and moved into the operating theater. I had had a stent put in ten or so years ago and the thought of sticking a tube through my groin and up to my heart scared me to death. It was a piece of cake, I actually watched it being done on a monitor. The thing was done by a single surgeon and two nurses to assist and took about ten minuets.

Through the swing doors on a rolling bed I went to a full blown operating room and five nurses awaiting me. Above the operating table were five monitors this time plus a another two screen set-up with another nurse activating this. I was screened off from a long side table along where I lay.

Two doctors came in. Whoa! wait a minute, what's going on here?

The four nurses came at me like a squad of commandos. Transferred from the cart to the table. One shaving my right wrist one shaving my groin area. One telling me that they use the catheter through the wrist, but prepare the groin if that doesn't work.

Long story short, the procedure took forty minuets and I ended up with a new stent (done through the wrist).

The surgeon had told me they only place stents if the blockage is over 80%. Obviously I qualified.

The surgeon told my wife that the stent should alleviate my discomfort and could delay the valve repair. He will know when he checks me in a month. The valve job will still eventually have to be performed, however, in the meantime—starting Friday— I should continue my daily exercise program and bike ride and behave as normal. So for me that's good news.

Today I'm down in the dumps, both wrists are sore, from the surgery and the other from the IV. and its off to the urologist for a follow-up.

Ain't it fun being an old f#@t? Still the alternate sucks worse.

[John Pruden]

Rodney I watched the quack putting the stents in mine on a telly in the theatre I was talking to him as he was doing it you will be sore for a while? urologists are know for taking the p.ss mate? jp

[Stan Carter]

#12, Des, not sure about that, but at one time would have been over the moon with all the attention from the nurses, now it's a case of get that catheter in and stop the torture, same when they are swabbing the area when prepping you for the op. must be getting old when all this attention in certain area's does not grab your attention.
stan.

[Stan Carter]

Rodney, back in 1994 when I had the first stent put in, I too, had that scared feeling of putting a probe from the groin through the body to the heart. wouldn't watch it at all. Have watched the last two procedures, one vascular stent and the finding of the bladder growth, quite interesting.
regards, stan