Another pointless thread

You daft bugger, you should have said something or were you fancying a ride in the Yorkshire Air Ambulance!

It's because its a Saturday and it's frosty that I intend to get up early - not sure I will manage it though

Barrie, whilst I am no expert everyone I know who has had a heart by pass feels far better afterwards

Whooaa! think of the Morphine drip

Morphine is a vile substance it causes mood related 'visions' etc - having had a fair bit of it I cannot understand how people use that type of thing for fun

To be honest even after only one week of morphine on a drip the 'getting off it' is not pleasant

I still have morphine based tablets in my cupboard - each time I have got out of hospital I ignore the morphine based tablets - and just use co-codamol so that the come down issues are over sooner rather than later

Beer is good though

Is it Beer that dilates blood vessels. That's good for hearts isn't it?

I hope so

So is this going to be a fairly quick job Barrie or is it a case of come back when they can fit you in?

They have me and they won't let go. I've to stay in for about 2 weeks until the op. then a further 7 to 10 days following. It's the number of beds in ICU that can affect things, I'm told, right up until you are actually on the table.

Oh that's a bummer Barrie, the ICU wont have those TV's with Internet access You''ll have to get Margaret to join the forum and keep us posted.

I have experience of this Barrie, to be fair and to my knowledge I have only ever been in the HDU (high dependency unit) not the ICU (Intensive Care Unit) of Chrsities.

Here is a little tale

One morning about 2am there were person running around seemingly all over the place in Ward 10 at Christies Manchester panicking and stating that if they don't get a place in the HDU someone else would pass on - now without any heroics etc I felt pretty good considering and rang my bell to ask the doctor if he would kindly wheel me in the the corridor or elsewhere so that someone else could take my place and would live as well as me - apart from being told that I should be asleep I was told not to be daft so I asked if I would survive being moved to another area - the answer was yes and as such I advised that if they did not move me I would get up and try to walk - they refused - I asked for the paper work to sign - they smiled - I tried to get up and ended up being moved.

I think many of the issues around beds etc are more to do with not inviting litigation as people surviving - sadly this seems to be forced upon the nhs and in no way their fault.

Anyhow the person who took the place I was occupying in the hdu seemed to be someone who did not really have the will to live and was in fact rude to me me when someone else brought the 'change over' up and the move was to be honest unpleasant which explains the reluctance of the staff - but all's well that ends well

Stu's tip of the day is that if whilst you are in hospital they need to inject you with 'blood thinning' stuff they used to have the choice of belly or arm (this may still be the case) - this stuff stings but the belly injection stings for about 10 to 15 minutes which is really annoying - in the arm it is more painful but lasts about 2 minutes if that - I opted for the arm - it's more like an intense nettele sting than the belly mild version but goes away pretty quickly

Barrie, you'll be a different man after the OP. My mother had a triple BP years ago and it was like a new lease of life. Apparently, the improvement in how you feel is a "need the OP to know" issue so others can only speculate.

Very best regards

Barrie, I'll just borrow your DA*300mm for a couple of weeks, just to stop the SDM from seizing

ATB mate

Sorry Alan, I'm waiting for parts to fix the tripod mount.

All the best Barrie. Which hospital are you in?

On a completely different subject, and to try and get back to a bit of pointlessness I was reading about the art of getting as much salad as possible in the single trip to the salad bar. It's become so poular that Pizza Hut have closed all salad bars in China!

http://consumerist.com/2011/03/the-amazing-salad-towers-of-china.html

As an ex seafarer I'm often asked the best way to combat seasickness.
I always recommend a tablespoonful of strawberry jam.
It doesn't stop the sickness, but tastes nicer when you're sick