Husband was due to have a stent in a few days but now it’s been cancelled. Obviously we are devastated as it’s 90% Proximal LAD stenosis and we have a 4 month old at home. 38 years old, no risk factors or known causes to this ongoing issue but his last stent also proximal but slightly less than this build up was 4yrs ago, the build up has occurred in that time, drugs obviously have not stopped it and no risk factors to remove or reduce as he’s always been extremely healthy.
I know the NHS has a lot on its plate but it’s taken 3 months to get this procedure to almost happen and last time it was urgent also 90% and occurred in 3 weeks and we were told to cancel our honeymoon it was so urgent, (obviously the angiogram then confirmed the CT diagnosis was 100% correct back then), so what’s changed?
Everyone keeps saying hospitals are bad places right now but I frankly don’t see that changing at any point soon, is the risk of a heart attack at a young age better? He’s young and in good health except for this issue so I see a heart attack to more likely to lead to his demise than this virus and this virus risk is not going to disappear suddenly in 3 months. We are not in London but near papworth so thought he’d be seen in the nick of time. Don’t know what to make of it all & frankly I’m very upset they called us back within two hours of his CT in December to see cardiologist ASAP on Christmas Eve if it was never going to be considered urgent this time. All this extended stress for nothing it seems & no clinical explanation of why it is not urgent this time. I know we’re not the only ones but I just feel so down about it & given his good health he’s unlikely unlikely to need an extended stay in hospital.