No idea why I’m singing that! Maybe because I’m happy, because tomorrow- nearly a year to the day since pain started in earnest - I’m getting my complex hernia fixed (large incisional and umbilical hernias) - so for now it’s a 👍.
Anyone remember Brett11 - I bet you “oldies” - forum oldies that is - do. He had a hernia and he called it Big Bertha. Thankfully Big Bertha met her demise a few months ago after Bob had waited a long time to be mended - maybe even longer than me? If you look at NHS websites incisional hernias are considered cosmetic - but then if they get very big then that verdict soon changes 😕👎.
Three months ago in a thread of the same name I warned about being careful of lifting things after your Transplant - or I suppose any stomach op 😕. I’m sure mine started about the 6 month mark but may have been earlier - but certainly got worse and worse after the 6 month “keep out zone” time period. Despite two US scans it was hypothesised as just nerves mending. Hmm got fed up with them saying that every month until a very very nice Consultant got me a CT scan (They’re all very nice but he was very very nice 😀). Say no more 😀 - we all - well a lot of us - know how good CT scans are!
Hence this new thread is just a reminder to be so very very careful. (Yes I know there can be other reasons for hernias to occur but....).
Take care all you transplantees or those about to have Transplants - again I wish I had!!
PS I may be brave and post a before and after photo later 🤞🤞
Miles
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Hey up freddy - thanks but you have seen below it was cancelled 😕. I didn’t see any masks but doctors were shaking hands and I saw a nurse coughing into her hand!
I behaved impeccably lol!! I did ask to see the bed manager after it was cancelled after pratting around for 8 hours but wife told me off and said NO - you’ll only get cross 😀. So I continued to behave and we left without a word of complaint - well that’s not wholly true but .... 😀
Hi J or C or JC or jay or Cee 😀 - thanks for your kind words. All a bit of a disaster all in all - waited for eight hours after going through the obligatory interviews to be told throughout - waiting for a bed...still waiting for a bed..still....oops no beds bye bye 😀
Well on the plus side I rang the liver unit just now and they had already discussed me - or was that disgust me (ohh that is the wrong way round isn’t it - it can’t be me being disgusting I behaved myself - honestly 😀) - but will ring tomorrow with a date...we shall see 😕
Good luck for tomorrow and no lifting. Practice what you preach as they say!!! I really do hope everything goes well tomorrow. Will be thinking of you. Take care Lynne
Hi Lynne - thank you! I did lift my bag both there and hey hey or boo boo back home after a very boring eight hour unsuccessful wait for a BED. I nearly offered to go and buy one but I don’t think they would have been amused. It would have amused me though - and think of the stories I could tell the grandchildren 😀.
I'm sure alls going to go perfectly well tomorrow and when you finally wake from your beautiful long dream⛵ you'll wonder what all the worry was about!
Good luck Miles and here's a hug to help with a few hours sleep tonight!
Oh Trish, I’m afraid to say Ih broke your five hour wait for nothing to happen record. In fact I shopped it 😀 - Eight hours. They wouldn’t even allow me to do any training....can’t think why!
I’m sorry for your miserable disappointment today. What a waste of everything. It does feel like a service right on the edge. If this is what we must put up with I’d like a notice at check in saying what percentage chance of a cancellation. I could make a judgement for myself then if I was able to wait around or not.
Not an achievement to be proud of though, is it 😕. Still, as I used to get told so many times as a child, worse things happen at sea! But worse - much worse - things happen in normal life too every day!! C’est la vie. 😑😑
Your so right on the everyday comment... lots going on 👎brother, sister, uncle very poorly and close friends having really tough shi ..y time.....
Life's a never ending battle but we must keeping being there for one and other through thick and thin as the saying goes !
I'm sending you all a Trishy hug especially to those of you having a bad time of it all!
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Miles
I'm sure yours wonderful friends here will have there 🤞🤞🤞🤞well and truly crossed that your op is a successful one and the following recovery days are comfortable ones with lots of pretty nurses to fluff up your pillows whilst your there.
All the best if you manage to read this before you leave
Aw that’s rotten, plays with your mind, all set to go then they cancel, hope your not too down about it and you don’t have a long wait until it’s rescheduled, take care 🌼
I'm so sorry it was cancelled, all that waiting around., I hope you are near to the top of the list 🤞🤞🤞🤞Things don't change. 35 years ago when I was due to have my gall bladder out we had to phone to see if there was a bed, at least I could stay at home until I got one, luckily for me there was a bed available. Love and hugs to you and Lizzie Lynne xxxx
Thank you Lynne - I was No.1 today. When we got there at 07:00 (actually at 06:30 but they wouldn’t let us in until 07:00!) we were told I would be going to theatre at 08:30....hmm many hours later - nearly 3 o’clock - oops no bed...
All the best for tomorrow Miles 👍👍🤞🤞, just don't let them use mesh, it moves about. Behave yourself with all those young nurses👩⚕️👩⚕️😁😁. I look forward to your tales of daring do.
Oh crikeyyyyy David. What a nuisance and obviously pain that is 😕👎.Maybe with mine being across the front of my middle it may be better 🤞🤞. I can’t leave it though because I am not allowed on holiday till it’s fixed so this letter says. But I suppose by the end of next week none of us will be going anywhere....boo hoo 👎
Thank you Lesley . I’ll hold those best wishes for next time - whenever that may be. I knew calls for TPs can often have to be aborted but not an operation which has been planned for over five months 😕....
Oh I'm sorry they have cancelled your op after all that time waiting. Sending you some more kind thoughts and hoping you don't have to wait too long . Take care.
Goodness, what a mistakea to makea!! I didn't even notice - I think I'll just go with exhausting Liz, as I can't work out the correct grammar at this time of night!!
Ohh I think you got it right the first time - it was better fun to read 😀😀. But trust filly to pick up on that - it shows a certain mindset - doesn’t it filly 😀.
Sorry Wassy! Nothing wrong with your grammar! Just me deliberately doing that ‘Carry On’ thing of taking it the wrong way. 🤣 I’m not one to make excuses for myself but it was the mention of fluffy nurses and pretty pillows (?) that gave me the prompt to say something equally inappropriate 😅😂🤣
Haha haha - I loved it whatever, and Wassy doesn’t mind - do you Wassy 😀😀👍. Anyway it was Trish’s fault for mentioning the fluffy nurses and pretty pillows! Trish! 😀
Having had a night's sleep I'm now even more confused. My spelling is pretty awful at the best of times. I do get your wonderful SoH Filli, but I'm regularly confused regarding our crazy English language. X
Hey up Wassie! I think I have taken a leaf out of your book re cancellations, but yours were sort of, if not wholly, to be understood - a scheduled op should surely go ahead and not be cancelled for lack of a bed eh? Boo hoo 😀. Got to keep smiling - FourSmiles?
Is the spirit a little weak? Yes - now just waiting for all non-urgent ops to be cancelled - thanks Corona 😀. Oh, or all “at risk” peeps to be told to stay at home! Lol - aren’t I upbeat 😀. Well I am actually trying to be - and as freddy would say - we’re still here! 😀👍
Maybe better if only emergency surgery takes place in the current climate? It’s a huge loss to a patient, preparing for surgery that doesn’t happen? Now you need convalescence and you didn’t even get fixed! Take care!
Ooh filly - very clever take on words 👍. I failed though because she was absolutely physically and psychologically knackered after getting up at 0400 and an eight hour fruitless wait in the Hospital. Going to town tomorrow to buy her a new coat - ohh wait, maybe I’ll use Amazon (other retailers are available) instead - don’t want to mix with Corona....
I asked Amazon to gift wrap my new phone in case I was out and they threw it over the roof. Hard times call for softer landings. I hope Liz gets her new coat safely!😀
I can’t say if “it” went over my head because I don’t know what “it” you're talking about! I can say for sure you’ll get an honest answer from me if you can remember what the “it” was😅
I’m not convinced you remembered! Anyway, BT arrived before Amazon. I didn’t even need a new phone!! So now I’m stockpiling phones. I gotta stockpile something apparently. I hope it goes up in value!!
Thank you Trust1 Rebecca. Unfortunately cancelled - no beds - after eight hours kicking our heels in a very very dour waiting room at QEHB. Not like QEHB at all 👎. I felt like Mary - no beds at the Inn 😕. But my lovely “named” nurse squeezed me into a consulting room with a trolley so I got a half hour kip 😀👍.
Thanks mum - was cancelled due to lack of a bed - just one little bed was all I needed 😀 - actually no a big long bed is what I needed. Perhaps that was the problem no long(er) beds available!
Thank you all for your kind words and good wishes 👍
Not to beat about the bush - after an eight hour wait the op was cancelled because of lack of a bed! Hard to believe tbh but even the surgeon said he would be twiddling his thumbs if a bed wasn’t found! Somehow it’s hard to believe that’s the way you should be running a Hospital like the QEHB - well actually any Hospital for that matter....😕.
Not a very pleasant eight hours in a rather dour waiting room as well - while I’m in moaning mode 😀.
Aha - now I see what you mean above or below 😀about reading the thread first! It’s OK it’s hard to keep up with threads sometimes, isn’t it! The hugs went down well though so I’m glad you didn’t cancel those 😀👍.
Owlie - you predicted that so well - I am indeed on my tootsies - nothing disturbed their rhythm at all! It was cancelled - well I hope just postponed by a couple of weeks 😀👍
Oh Dear Miles!!!! what a bummer😠😠😠. Wouldn't you think they should see if a bed is available, and tell you if not.......so frustrating for you to say the least.
Thanks David 😀. I agree - drink ups in a brewery spring to mind - unless dearest (not 😕) Corona has already struck there and they’re not telling anyone - conspiracies rule KO...
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