Rowena8482 
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I just got off the phone with Lesley - the consultant thinnks that the artificial heart valve she had fitted a while back might have "sprung a leak", and they're planning something called a Doppler scan on her right leg, scheduled for tomorrow or Thursday. After that they will know more and plan what to actually do about it. She is in good spirits, especially considering how long she's been in there and it sounds a bit chaotic to say the least.
Reply #361. Apr 06 10, 8:08 AM
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Professer
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Thanks Rowena for update, give her my love when you next speak to her
Reply #362. Apr 06 10, 8:51 AM
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| Lochalsh
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I am sending Robert Downey, Jr., to Lesley's bedside to cheer her up and make her hospital stay pass more nearly quickly.
Reply #363. Apr 06 10, 1:17 PM
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MarchHare007
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Thank you - that's Good to hear Rowena - feeling better would definitely have her in good spirits.
Now if they can pin down the problem and get her on the road to recovery! :)
Reply #364. Apr 06 10, 7:23 PM
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jonnowales
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Hope to hear from you soon Lesley :)
Reply #365. Apr 06 10, 7:31 PM
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tezza1551
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Hang in there Lesley - FT needs you :)
Big hugs from West Aust.
Reply #366. Apr 06 10, 9:27 PM
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MarchHare007
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Thursday Hugs from me Lesley - hope all is going well today. :)
Reply #367. Apr 07 10, 4:17 PM
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Squisher
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((((((((((((Canadian hugs))))))))))))) to Lesley. Hope the Doppler test goes well. I'm very relieved to hear she is in good spirits.
Reply #368. Apr 08 10, 8:18 AM
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Rowena8482
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Just a quick update - the valve that was replaced some years ago is "worn out" so to speak and needs re-replacing which means Lesley being admitted to Papworth hospital. Unfortunately the ward she is currently on at the original hospital has several cases of vomiting and diarrhoea (not Lesley thank Goodness!) and is thus under "lock down" and Papworth won't take her until it's all been sorted out and dealt with which could be another week :-( (Oh the joys of the NHS!) She is still in good spirits though, and feeling much better than she has for some time now, they've sorted out all those little niggles and reviewed all her medication and so on which has helped a lot.
Reply #369. Apr 13 10, 4:44 PM
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MarchHare007
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Oh yes - nothing like going to hospital to Catch Something! :(
Good to hear things are progressing Lesley and you'll soon be back and bouncing around and keeping us all in order. :D
Thanks for the news Rowena. :)
Reply #370. Apr 13 10, 4:59 PM
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gillimalta
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Hope you're back in rude health soon!
Hugs x
Reply #371. Apr 14 10, 2:49 AM
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Professer
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Thanks Rowena for keeping us updated, i still miss Lesley so much, Hope all goes well for the OP
Reply #372. Apr 14 10, 4:35 AM
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Squisher
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Yes, thanks for the update Rowena. It's frustrating to hear about the delay to get into Papworth, but at least she's in good hands and they know what's wrong. Can't wait to see you back here Lesley!
Reply #373. Apr 14 10, 4:07 PM
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satguru
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I just heard Lesley's been allowed to go home while waiting for the operation in a few weeks. Shouldn't be long now before she announces her arrival.
Reply #374. Apr 17 10, 9:11 AM
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Deunan
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Hurray! Words from Lesley will be extremely welcome. I've missed her very, very much.
Reply #375. Apr 17 10, 9:40 AM
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honeybee4
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Welcome home Lesley. I hope you will soon be as good as new once the operation is over and you recuperate. Take it easy.
Reply #376. Apr 17 10, 9:55 AM
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Professer
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Take care my dear friend have really missed you, just relax and chill till you have the op then you will be well.
Reply #377. Apr 17 10, 11:19 AM
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| lesley153
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Knock knock - please can anyone join in?
Rowena told me there were a load of nice messages, and I've just read them all, so I'm sitting here with an inane smile plastered across my face. Thank you Rowena and David for keeping the bulletins flowing, and everyone for the nice messages.
Right - from the beginning! I haven't got a spleen, which probably means that I have a rubbish immune system. I don't know why but it's a possible result of being born from an inadequately-controlled diabetic pregnancy, which I was - there's nothing like a good start in life!
Thirteen years ago, I picked up a bug which gave me endocarditis, among other things. A shower of ambulance incompetents decided it was backache, and gave me NSAIDs. By the time someone realised what it was, my aortic valve had been damaged beyond repair, and was replaced in Papworth in 1997.
The valve is now calcified, narrowed to about a quarter of its ideal area, and leaking. I've also got a narrowed coronary artery. The valve will have to be replaced and the artery will be treated at the same time - the surgeons at Papworth will decide how.
I've had loads of tests and the rest of me is in surprisingly good condition, considering! One pleasing outcome is that most of the drugs I've come home with are different from the ones I took in with me. When I was first diagnosed with diabetes, I asked my GP about possible changes in lifestyle and diet that would allow me to control it without pills or with a smaller dose. He said "Nah, just take the tablets." He also decided, I suspect as a knee-jerk reaction to the diabetes, to put me on statins. Again, I asked him about diet and lifestyle, and he said "Nah, just keep taking the tablets." The hospital took me off the diabetes meds for a couple of tests, and my blood sugar stayed within normal levels for a week, so they pronounced me "diet-controlled" and sent me home with a load of testing sticks. And the consultant said I could come off the statins for the time being. I want to be a fly on the wall when he reads the hospital's discharge letter.
Thank goodness they've let me come home to wait for the call to Papworth. They've told me not to drive, which is probably sensible, and anyway Jonathan's left my car in Hendon. The food was mostly palatable, and the nurses did their best, considering that there should have been twice as many of them, all the tecchie equipment was switched off for the Easter weekend, and some of the wards got the norovirus and had to be closed. Mine was one of them and so for a while I couldn't even leave the ward. My life consisted of bed, loo/shower room, and a load of bonkers ward-mates, but the combination of a drowsy anti-histamine, with my first-ever sleeping pills, allowed me to sleep through everything till the 7am offer of tea.
Remind me to write a book, but not now, because it's after 1am, and hospital lights out is 10pm. *yawn* Night. :) |
Reply #378. Apr 18 10, 6:22 PM
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| lesley153
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Thinks - I must be institutionalised, because I knew which diuretic tasted bitter and which one tasted minty; and (oh dear) started enjoying the food.
Taking huge doses of diuretics was irritating, but the surprising result of three weeks of them is that I've lost a stone and a half (twenty-one pounds). Definitely worth it. |
Reply #379. Apr 18 10, 6:28 PM
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redwaldo
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Happy Home-coming, Lesley!
Reply #380. Apr 18 10, 6:36 PM
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