| Professer
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Thats ok Lesley just thought i would let you know glad its sorted.
Reply #1621. Oct 24 10, 11:45 AM
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| lesley153
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| Thank you, all information is good. You never know, someone else might see it and it'll be just what they're looking for. |
Reply #1622. Oct 24 10, 3:02 PM
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| lesley153
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Blood update...
Before I have my planned cardioversion, my clotting time needs to register two or three times its starting value in the next three weeks. This morning, at my first return visit since I started on Friday, it had leapt up to 3.5 times.
I started on 4mg. I am to miss tonight's dose, and reduce the dose to 1mg. Good. :) (The less I take, and the sooner I'm off it, the happier I shall be.)
Wasp update...
The wasps are dead. Good. The nest is still there. Hmmm.
On Saturday, after the pest control people had gone, I said that I would happily pay the same again for them to come back and take the nest away. I'm not ready to start clambering around in lofts, and Jonathan wouldn't willingly go anywhere near a nest, including a dead one.
I rang them yesterday to ask if they would come back and remove the nest. They came today and he had a look round for other nests. There's the big one - basketball sized - he killed on Saturday, and there was a smaller one.
There was a third one, as big as a golfball, which he killed on Saturday when he pumped insecticide into the big one. It was tiny because it contained the queen, who was hibernating.
At least, that's what she thought she was doing - not waiting to be poisoned. Won't she be surprised when she wakes up dead!
I did pay the same again. Worth every penny. |
Reply #1623. Oct 26 10, 10:03 AM
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satguru 
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I've read everything (honest!) but still don't know what cardioversion is and whether it means something hasn't been quite fixed from the operation. I have many theories of varying degrees of surrealism, from turning it slowly inside out to see what's happening, hanging you upside down for some arcane reason, pumping gas through it to see if it leaks, and the imagination goes on ad infinitum. I'm sure all my theories are far more elaborate than the actual reality, but imagination usually is.
Reply #1624. Oct 26 10, 9:03 PM
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Jazmee27
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The wasp story reminded me of a story mom told about her one coworker, who's deathly afraid of mice. One day she opened her desk drawer... ant there was a mouse! She called her stepdaughter, who got a closed mousetrap. (Well, when mom heard, she thought she'd be funny and put a rubber mouse-one of her coworkers had put it on her desk to scare her-in her mailbox. [The ensuing conversation went like this: "That was mean, Minnie!" "Put it in your desk drawer for when your stepdaughter comes for another visit!" And later to me: "I think she's going to do it!"]
Reply #1625. Oct 26 10, 9:26 PM
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| lesley153
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The theories are much more entertaining than the reality.
I didn't have any problems after the first heart op in 1997, or for at least a month after this one, but a fairly recent ECG detected atrial flutter, which is an arrhythmia that isn't as chaotic as atrial fibrillation. I had another ECG in Papworth on 18/10, and posted the print-out on my facebook page on 19/10.
One of the cardiac support nurses said it's common - it's the heart protesting about being handled too much - and doesn't always show itself immediately post-op.
I've been taking anti-flutter pills for a few weeks but they don't seem to have made much difference.
Cardioversion is electric shock treatment, designed to restore normal rhythm. It's like TV hospital scenes where someone shouts Clear! and applies giant electric pads to the patient's chest, except this is done under a general anaesthetic, the pads are stuck to the chest first, and it doesn't make such good telly.
I need to have anti-coagulants first, because arrythmia increases the chances of blood clots, and cardioversion increases the chances of a blood clot breaking free and travelling through your bloodstream. Cheerful, isn't it?
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A rubber mouse? Unkind! :) |
Reply #1626. Oct 27 10, 10:10 AM
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satguru
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That doesn't sound so bad now, and far better than ablation which I discovered when Tony Blair had it. You being a lady I won't make the joke I would otherwise, but can't help mentioning there was one. Maybe someone with even less restraint than me may mention it instead. I was diagnosed with pretty runaway tachycardia at 14, it calmed down once I had tablets just knowing they were there apparently, but came back in my 40s and am now back on new ones although it seems to have trained it back now and only keep them in reverse. I have a monitor on the running machines in the gym and the rate drops around 40 beats after a single tablet so definitely no placebo effect there.
Reply #1627. Oct 27 10, 7:14 PM
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satguru
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Once you have had an edit button you think it's for life... reverse indeed, reverse those letters for the right word- crossword clue style (7)
Reply #1628. Oct 27 10, 7:16 PM
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| lesley153
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Since when was I a lady? But thank you. :)
Good crossword clue. I didn't need it, though. I read what you meant, not what you typed.
Can you feel the difference when you've had a tablet, or do you rely on the machines to tell you? |
Reply #1629. Oct 27 10, 7:56 PM
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| Professer
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I always thought yuou were a LADY ! And i am sure so have others
Reply #1630. Oct 28 10, 12:37 AM
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| C30
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I was always led to believe that every female is a "lady" until proved otherwise.
Reply #1631. Oct 28 10, 4:37 AM
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| lesley153
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| Gary and Ray, you are too kind. :) |
Reply #1632. Oct 28 10, 5:42 AM
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satguru
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The white tablets (as in The Matrix) definitely calm me down as you'd expect and let me sleep very easily if I need one. The pink ones do stop the shaking etc I'd get otherwise, I can tell when it's likely to play up and they certainly get most if not all of it when I take one although they are now in reserve just in case rather than regular usage. But I'd be lost without them or something like them as there is a film of one molecule thick between me and the anxiety most of the time and would need some kind of miracle for that to change I reckon.
Reply #1633. Oct 28 10, 8:01 AM
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| lesley153
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Do you know what instigated it and what triggers it? Can you do anything about either of them?
Thank you for explaining about the pills - I haven't seen The Matrix, so I wouldn't have twigged. |
Reply #1634. Oct 28 10, 3:40 PM
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| veronikkamarrz
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...Kind of sounds like Alice in Wonderland. One pill makes you larger, and one pill makes you small. Oh, maybe that's Jefferson Airplane...;)
Reply #1635. Oct 28 10, 3:55 PM
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Jazmee27
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Kind of sounds like it!
Reply #1637. Oct 28 10, 6:56 PM
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satguru
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I'd say my trouble is genetic- I can trace it back two generations and the reactions are standard brain malfunctions, it's one of the glands which isn't behaving properly and usually triggered by the first ever panic attack which then forms a template for the future. Had the constant tablets not caused a new problem years after they started them I'd have more time close to how I was before I crossed the line of anxiety, but now was given the ones you take which work when you take them but only for a short time. Luckily 90% of the things I now avoid have all been done enough for a lifetime- theatres, travelling abroad etc, so don't bother me as I'm happy locally, but more concerned how most women would feel cheated not being taken to all the usual places. Not everyone is able to do that though so would have to make quite a few allowances. Grace however, as we call her here, is now happy to make them but she is a good and simple soul and can't see many more who would unless from a similar mould.
Reply #1638. Oct 28 10, 7:51 PM
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honeybee4
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My daughter has the same thing every once in a while, Satguru. Sometimes it takes a long time to pull out of it, sometimes not. She has taken Ativan for it for years. Most people do not understand the utter helplessness this causes and think the person should be able to take control of every situation if they just try. It doesn't work that way. She is a manager, supervisor for a large company, and last year she missed six months of work because of this.
Reply #1639. Oct 28 10, 8:20 PM
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| lesley153
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Grace can't be unique, but I have no idea how you'd find more people from the same mould.
A real life friend whose husband died six years ago is out, at home and abroad, more than she's in. She suggested to me that there's nothing to stop me going off on holiday, wherever and whenever I want. There are lots of nice singles holidays... (A singles holiday - just what I need!)
Yes there is - I've seen a few countries and continents, and there's nowhere else I particularly want to go now.
"That's sad."
No it isn't: it's a relief.
And I'm sure there are depression genes. The last real life person who said anything to me about depression told me that she has no sympathy with These People who take pills because they say they're depressed. They need to get a grip, pull their socks up, and sort themselves out. She's done it; so can they. No, I didn't think it worked like that either.
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Just back from the hospital. My INR - clotting time - which started at 1, and leapt up alarmingly quickly to 3.3, has now settled comfortably at 2.2. I don't need to go to the main hospital any more, which is good - three miles and nowhere to park - I can go to the little local wing, one mile away and lots of nice stress-free parking spaces. |
Reply #1640. Oct 29 10, 6:25 AM
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