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On Monday afternoon last,I was transferring to my car at Crawley hospital, when, I felt a deep crushing pain in the centre of my chest. I drove the three miles home knowing my Son, Tom and daughter Lucy, were there, on hols from uni.
On my arrival in the driveway to my house the pain had intenseified, and I was becoming breathless, so I hit the hooter and T&L appeared.....
I've been in Renal failure for 28 years and am no stranger to the A&Edept, but useually fob pain off as musculer etc.
This was far worse though.
Tom called 999 and within five mins a fast responce paramedic was on hand. Blood pressure, ECG, GNT spray asprin and soothing talk followed.
15 mins later An ambulance had trf me from my car, and we wwere off up the moterway to east surry A&E.
Under the influance of ozygen we hit the hospital then "Holby" style I was rushed to the waiting Re-suss team.
My clothes were removed,lines were incerted, drugs given.....Morphine, for pain, Heperin..to thin the blood.
And imaging started.
AT 1:30 am, I was trfd  to cardiac care unit, and over the next 24 hours received the fullest standerd of care, frm o the highly trained CCU team, and it was descovered I had a clot which was embedded in an artury going to my lung........hence the breathlessness.
clot busting injections had been started, and pain releif had continued, my children were at my bedside.

I must admit that when i was sat in my car in the drive, I took a long lingering look at both Tom and Estpechily Lucy,
cos i beleived it may be my last view.
But due to the fantastic quick intervention my the whole team of experts who were in attendance, from the team at East surry, and at St hilier's in S London were i was transferred to on tues evening........i'm now at home.
I was allowed home last evening from st hillier were my renal dialysis could be carered for, with my blood thinning tablets,until i must return on sunday at 10 am for blood tests.
IF there are no further incidents i'll be allowed to return to my local hospital on monday for my usual treatment.

I have ended up with a Clot which ks hopfully disirating over the next few months and so called Artirial fribulation(Heart murrmer) which apparently i can live with.

So for the hundreth time I've cheated the grim reaper, who has been on my back since I was first rushed to hospital in 1957 at three months old. with suspected kidney failure.
The old maxim live for the day now comes sharply into focus.......but whatever the next few days brings,
All I have in my Heart, is the love of all the people both personal and professional that I hold close.

They all, plus all the people i've come onto contact with, and all those i've seen, read about ,and even only heard about second hand. have made this life a journey which I can in all honesty say, I've enjoyed !!! Kh

 :goodpost:

Puts everything into perspective.

Speedy recovey, and best wishes for the future.

Nicely put Eric, hope you are better soon, good luck  :)up

See you at 7 tonight for the blonde bash  :)up i'll distract matron while we sneak you out!!

Seriously, hope recovery goes according to plan and you're fit and ready for the next one

Best of luck Eric and speedy recovery.

Trace
xx

glad to hear you are ok eric - if you are going to the blondebash, have fun tonight  ;letsparty;

So glad your here to tell your tale Eric ,  most definately does put life into perspective .
Take care and speey recovery xx

Eric best wishes and get better soon , need to see u back in Brighton :) 

mel x

WOW Eric, WHAT a story. I don't know what to say.

But yes, it does put the daily moaners & groaners into perspective.

Look after yourself chap. Those daughters are relying on you.

We wil be thinking of you tonight. Trust me.

I really don't know what to say except reiterate the words of those before my post.Godbless & a speedy recovery..xx

If ''that which does not destroy me, makes me strong'', you must be on the way to Superhero-dom.

Wishing you a speedy recovery.

Wow thank you for posting this


but please remember to send your daughters mates along tonight!!  :D

Best Wishes for your recovery,

I can actually relate to this as well.  I've got the same problem.  Happend to me at the end of November.

The worst bit for me was it was a week before I was due to go to Vegas.  This was of course now off the cards and and I lost everything in terms of cost as I hadn't sorted out my insurance yet.

The biggest pain for the first week was having to travel to the hospital everyday for those dam clexine injections (kinda like a small bee sting aren't they). 

Anyway, about 3-4 weeks after it all happened I was back to living a fairly normal life style with no real side effects.  It has been a big change to my life as well.  On the possitive side the Warfarin tablets mean I can't drink to excess (for 6 months!), given how much I was drinking before this was quite a blow.  My online play is improving though, I would imagine that this is in a large part down to being sober all the time.

The mystery of it all is the biggest worry.  I'm only 30 with no risk factors and they can't tell me until they do tests when I've finished the Warfarin in 5 months why any of this happened, even then they will probably just say one of those things.

Wishing you a speady recovery, if your anything like me I'm just worried about recovering in time for long haul fligths so I can hit Vegas.

If you ever want to chat with somebody else who is a month or so a head in the whole recovery process please feel free to message me.

Stu

Good luck Mr S

Eric - what a story - brings all the shallowness in the world into perspective.  Get better soon.

Tracey x

Get well soon

Good Luck :)up :)up :)up

Good luck , good health and good story

hope you get better soon eric

Speedy recovery Sir, Glad to hear everything went well and respect to the emergancy team!

Eric

glad to hear you are ok and your family were with you. did the doctors say whether or not you have to aviod sitting too long? im thinking of online poker and how much you sit it in one position. i know its not good for the circulation. if they didnt say, maybe you sould check it out. i think folk that sit on pc for long periods should make a point of doing leg exercises or getting up frequently and having a stretch.
it really is a relief to hear you pulled through. thanks to whoever you believe in and i bide you good good health in the future
take care

mad

Scary stuff indeed!  All the best Eric!

eric,

finally I get to find this post. I was told about it in Birmingham but only got to my PC late today.

It really does put everything into perspective, as someone else has said. All I can add is my best wishes and can assure you that you were in our thoughts at the bash.

I'd like to thank everyone who has given me their best wishes on our forum, it ment a lot to me to hear you all express your concerns.
I'm feeling well today after a rough weekend, back to the hospital last evening though for a blood test cos my clotting figs had gone to pot.
My son is keeping me in cotten wool,cos they said i mus'nt bang my head ,cut myself or pick my nose......nosebleed concern there.
Anyway I can be found on the $30 stt and in the Mtt's on Stars for a few weeks.
Come and fleese me if you think you're hard enough etc.
Thx again everyone................I bet other sites pull their hair out when they hear of the genuine affection we on BLONDE have for each other.
 :blonde:

eric great to hear you are on the mend you were missed on at the bash everyone was asking where you were and i hadnt read this trhead so had no idea before hand but hopefully next time you can make it and we can have a jar or 2

 ;goodluck;

What Snoopster said


Have a speedy recovery sir!