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My swiss cheese brain
*** WARNING *** CONTAINS PHOTOS OF MY MOST RECENT “WAR WOUNDS” ***
Well, after much drama and waiting for news, I finally made it into hospital and on Friday had the revision of my VP shunt. It turned out that the existing ventricular catheter (which is blocked and no longer works) was rather firmly attached to [...]
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News of my departure was a little premature
Well, I should be in the hospital by now getting drained of blood and having allsorts of tests and stuff (I was supposed to be there for 10am this morning), but I’m still here.
Phoned this morning at 8.30 to check they’d got a bed for me, as per the usual instructions, [...]
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Signing out
Well, on Monday came the good news that the plan’s still for me to go in on Thursday – no nasty heparin infusion! Yay for me! Stopped the warfarin from Monday, so hopefully my INR should be just about where they want it by now. I’ve packed my Coaguchek machine, as instructed. Hopefully the combination [...]
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Op attempt #2
On Monday I heard from the hospital that they’ve got a new date for me – in on 23rd October (next Thursday) for the op on 24th October (Friday). That was the plan anyhow.
I’ve been for the pre-op assessment today though, as usual a very long-winded and tiring affair. Apart from the usual blood pressure, [...]
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More adventures with a sharp pointy object
Yay! Finally, success!
The new lancets supplied by the nurse practitioner did the trick (get a much larger blood sample), and today I managed to get the stabbing finger with sharp pointy object and working the machine working together, and actually got a result!
After the first beep of the machine I’d got my eyes [...]
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NHS waiting list world record
Wednesday when I got in from work I got a bit of a shock, in the form of a telephone call from my neurosurgeon’s secretary. When I saw my neurosurgeon last at the beginning of September, we decided that given the ongoing problems with my LP shunt, it was probably worth investigating my still in, [...]
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Further adventures with a sharp pointy object
Today’s attempt at using my new INR self-testing machine was so very nearly there, but at the last minute went rather wrong.
Armed with advice from my co-admin on my forum, who’s a practice nurse and runs an INR clinic using the ‘pro’ version of the machine I’ve got, and my experiences from last week on [...]
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Rachel’s adventures with a sharp pointy object and lots of plasters
How hard can it be stabbing your finger with a sharp object and then putting the resulting blood that collects on a strip of plastic?! Harder than it looks, is the simple answer. The long version of it is below.
Due to Factor V Leiden (FVL), a genetic clotting disorder I have, and the fact [...]
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More apologies
Okay, so I really was intending to post a bit more. I seem to have got a bit distracted with a lot of forum maintenance though recently – damned thing’s practically a full time job!
On the positive side, I did it! Got to the bottom of my inbox and replied to all those emails that [...]
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Wake up call
Yesterday I had a bit of a scare. For the past six months I’ve been on some pretty heavy duty painkillers. The pain I’m now getting in my upper spine isn’t responding to anything much, not even the morphine-like buprenorphine patches, but I have to say that the rest of my back’s responded well to [...]
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