Holby City

[Howick01]

Oh dear !

In the latest episode nurse Essie is diagnosed with OC and operated on by gynaecologist/obstetrician!!

And the normal CA125 is up to 50!!

I do hope she does as well as the ones in River City!!!!

Come on guys do your research!

[Katmal-UK]

lol AND don't forget the speed in which she was operated on! obviously there is the saying it's not what you know but who!

[Howick01 in reply to Katmal-UK]

Oops forgot about the speed!!!!!!!

[Manchesterlady]

I saw it , admitted and was operated on straight away , and cured!! Think we should all go there

[Rachael47]

Did she have chemo at all?

[Howick01 in reply to Rachael47]

Not yet-will have to see next week!

[Katmal-UK in reply to Rachael47]

You'd like to think she will be having follow up chemo esp as her CA125 was 10000!

[Hidden]

I missed it and watched the foottie but read some where about the programme today.

[Howick01 in reply to Hidden]

I watched it on Iplayer as times of it showing was all mixed up here in Highlands.We usually see it at 2245hrs.

[KBM22]

Ha I know someone who works on Holby as a script editor. I don’t watch it myself but maybe I should have a word 😘...

[Howick01 in reply to KBM22]

I feel that OC in soaps and also some books is not portrayed correctly.

My children grew up with one of River City's script writers and OC and BRAC was very sketchy in their script as well.

[govanhill]

Thought exactly the same.

[Katiebairdie]

I thought it turned the program yin to a fantasy show. Who gets treatment like that on day one.

[Cropcrop]

Doesn’t it make you cross when dramas get it so very wrong, not just Holby but all of them. It really doesn’t help our cause at all and just confirms that the knowledge about our disease is so very sketchy in both the medical world and the real world.

I’ve not seen Holby yet this week due to the footy but may just give it a miss, my steady blood pressure is important to me 😂.

❤️Xx Jane

[Howick01 in reply to Cropcrop]

It is not distressing to watch.It is just part of the fantasy medical wards in Holby City.

I am always amazed how they are always in the thick of things .From ward to theatre to research to everywhere!!!

I love watching both shows.Wish the hospitals were like that in my day!!!!

[Cropcrop in reply to Howick01]

It’s the way dramas treat subjects like this that gets my goat and the inaccuracies they portray, shouting at the TV is what get my blood pressure going 😂. ❤️Xx Jane

[Flamingobeef18]

I watched it last night. I did find it painful to watch but that was also to do with the acting ( apologies to Holby fans ).

The inaccuracies were pretty impressive. Symptoms of bloating and pain that "come and go" and one simple minor surgery to cure it. Just a shame as it was an opportunity lost.

To be fair was the speed of surgery more to do with the bowel obstruction rather than the OC?

[Katmal-UK in reply to Flamingobeef18]

To be fair I think the bowel obstruction was the reason for the speed but it was still amazingly quick!

[Maxjor]

In the U.S. Can is get this amazingly accurate show here? Would like to see that episode!

[Lizchips in reply to Maxjor]

Maxjor, wow, another 🇺🇸, yay!. I'm down in SoCal. I've got 3c clear cell, cancer free4 plus yrs. Hope your doing great. Did you do stomach wash chemo. I did at city of Hope, Duarte CA. Best wishes Liz

[Maxjor in reply to Lizchips]

I was so with high grade IVa. No wash. Started with chemo then debulking then more chemo. Relapsed in 7 months and chemo again. Now on a PARP and doing well!

[Lizchips in reply to Maxjor]

Happy to see your doing good. My friend just diagnosed stage 4, surgery Monday, hooked her up with my doc, she'll get debulked and stomach wash, with IV chemo too. We just won't know till doc gets in there what's all coming out. She'll start chemo IV right away, but stomach wash she has to heal about 7 weeks to start. Prayers to you and stay well ❤❤Liz

[Howick01]

Wish I had not started this now-was just concerned she did not have gynae/oncologist and CA125 was misquoted !!!!!!!!!!

Cheers x

[lynn6156]

I've never watched Holby but I'm guilty of Corrie and sometimes Emmerdale - what amazes me with these two is every single person who has been admitted with anything, has got a single room. No other patients snoring, no machines bleeping, no mobile phones going - I want to go in that hospital ! Oh and the surgeon seems very good with gunshot wounds - not one death from I don't know how many shootings!

Lynn

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