Vital Forest - Mental/Physical Wellbeing Groupchat

Finally had the results from my pet scan that they expect 50/60% to give more cancer… turns out there isn’t which was a little win…take what I can!

Seeing heart surgeon tomorrow to discuss valve transplant which is the 1st of 3 miracles we need to have any reasonable future. If heart valve thing goes well then chances go up and then it will be bowel tumour removal surgery then just stuck with liver that will require transplant thanks to gp screwing me over.

Guy at work who was diagnosed with brain tumour same time as me died Saturday….horrendous for his family and work, we are a family run operation and everyone is very close. I’m still trying to keep military stuff upper lip most days, occasionally have moments where I want to throat punch rude people.

Hope pope is ok
 
Southern red said:
Finally had the results from my pet scan that they expect 50/60% to give more cancer… turns out there isn’t which was a little win…take what I can!

Seeing heart surgeon tomorrow to discuss valve transplant which is the 1st of 3 miracles we need to have any reasonable future. If heart valve thing goes well then chances go up and then it will be bowel tumour removal surgery then just stuck with liver that will require transplant thanks to gp screwing me over.

Guy at work who was diagnosed with brain tumour same time as me died Saturday….horrendous for his family and work, we are a family run operation and everyone is very close. I’m still trying to keep military stuff upper lip most days, occasionally have moments where I want to throat punch rude people.

Hope pope is ok
Click to expand...
 
Southern red said:
Finally had the results from my pet scan that they expect 50/60% to give more cancer… turns out there isn’t which was a little win…take what I can!

Seeing heart surgeon tomorrow to discuss valve transplant which is the 1st of 3 miracles we need to have any reasonable future. If heart valve thing goes well then chances go up and then it will be bowel tumour removal surgery then just stuck with liver that will require transplant thanks to gp screwing me over.

Guy at work who was diagnosed with brain tumour same time as me died Saturday….horrendous for his family and work, we are a family run operation and everyone is very close. I’m still trying to keep military stuff upper lip most days, occasionally have moments where I want to throat punch rude people.

Hope pope is ok
Click to expand...
So sorry to hear this SR. Wishing you nothing but strength and ultimate success in fighting all of this.
 
Southern red said:
Finally had the results from my pet scan that they expect 50/60% to give more cancer… turns out there isn’t which was a little win…take what I can!

Seeing heart surgeon tomorrow to discuss valve transplant which is the 1st of 3 miracles we need to have any reasonable future. If heart valve thing goes well then chances go up and then it will be bowel tumour removal surgery then just stuck with liver that will require transplant thanks to gp screwing me over.

Guy at work who was diagnosed with brain tumour same time as me died Saturday….horrendous for his family and work, we are a family run operation and everyone is very close. I’m still trying to keep military stuff upper lip most days, occasionally have moments where I want to throat punch rude people.

Hope pope is ok
Click to expand...

Positives for you SR

Keep them going mate.

Sorry about your work colleague though
 
Southern red said:
Finally had the results from my pet scan that they expect 50/60% to give more cancer… turns out there isn’t which was a little win…take what I can!

Seeing heart surgeon tomorrow to discuss valve transplant which is the 1st of 3 miracles we need to have any reasonable future. If heart valve thing goes well then chances go up and then it will be bowel tumour removal surgery then just stuck with liver that will require transplant thanks to gp screwing me over.

Guy at work who was diagnosed with brain tumour same time as me died Saturday….horrendous for his family and work, we are a family run operation and everyone is very close. I’m still trying to keep military stuff upper lip most days, occasionally have moments where I want to throat punch rude people.

Hope pope is ok
Click to expand...
You’re really going the mill SR but pleased to hear you’ve had a bit of positive news. Like Fletch in porridge said little victories mate little victories
 
Fucking hell the nhs is a shambles… people waiting since 1.30 to see a certain specialist and they’ve just decided to tell them yeah he’s not in as he’s on holiday!

Thankfully not my guy
 
Southern red said:
Fucking hell the nhs is a shambles… people waiting since 1.30 to see a certain specialist and they’ve just decided to tell them yeah he’s not in as he’s on holiday!

Thankfully not my guy
Click to expand...
It's a good feeling when it's not you.

Visited my sister near Hexham for the weekend. Train back York to Reading (since when did trains go to Reading?) was annoyingly delayed enough to miss my connection at Derby. I would feel slightly soiled going via Derby but it couldn't be helped.

Ten minutes out of Derby they told everyone they'd have to get off there as there was a technical problem with the train. There was another train waiting on the same platform and all seat reservations had been transferred to it...but I could sense a degree of annoyance from everyone else.

Didn't bother me as I was getting off there anyway.
 
In for a double heart catheterisation today… getting ready for heart surgery in Feb , appears leaving my cancer for 2 years has affected 2 valves… cheers gp
 
Southern red said:
In for a double heart catheterisation today… getting ready for heart surgery in Feb , appears leaving my cancer for 2 years has affected 2 valves… cheers gp
Click to expand...
Hoping it goes well for you SR .You come across with a great attitude and level of strength with what you are having to endure.Total respect for you chap.
 
Cheers guys, means a lot. What a day and firstly let me lead by saying hands down worst procedure I’ve ever had…. Horrific!

They wanted to go through arm artery but after 5 attempts at throwing darts they decided through the groin. Get that in and feel the device going up to the heart which is strange…. But then you feel like you are having a heart murmur or weird stroke and you can see the device moving on the x ray and it feels awful

Aside from the lady moving the table up instead of down so I smacked my mush on the x ray all went well, slight spasm in my arm so they gave me fentanyl which made me feel all very hip

So yeah, that was horrid but weirdly the wirstvifvny day was yet to come, they take the groin artery needle out and pressure for 10 mins then put strong sticky covering over it…. Didn’t think too much as I was laying flat.

Cut to 1 hour later need the loo and desperate for a dump, hobble to toilet as she said try and keep leg straight where possible.

Get to loo and I keep getting half way down and groin twangs with pain, so I think look , need to crap but if o straighten leg and plonk down last bit.. all good

As I plonked, it was at this moment I felt a rather unpleasant and rather bracing pain hit me… panic mode set in but wasn’t the artery…. It was at this moment I realised as I was flat she was chatting and slapped the sticker on not only 3/4 of my pubes but also a small guinea pig worth of leg hair… the tape had a struggle until both sets of curlers were yanked out

I may have winced

On return I asked kindly for new strip and I helped position it for future loo breaks
 
Southern red said:
Cheers guys, means a lot. What a day and firstly let me lead by saying hands down worst procedure I’ve ever had…. Horrific!

They wanted to go through arm artery but after 5 attempts at throwing darts they decided through the groin. Get that in and feel the device going up to the heart which is strange…. But then you feel like you are having a heart murmur or weird stroke and you can see the device moving on the x ray and it feels awful

Aside from the lady moving the table up instead of down so I smacked my mush on the x ray all went well, slight spasm in my arm so they gave me fentanyl which made me feel all very hip

So yeah, that was horrid but weirdly the wirstvifvny day was yet to come, they take the groin artery needle out and pressure for 10 mins then put strong sticky covering over it…. Didn’t think too much as I was laying flat.

Cut to 1 hour later need the loo and desperate for a dump, hobble to toilet as she said try and keep leg straight where possible.

Get to loo and I keep getting half way down and groin twangs with pain, so I think look , need to crap but if o straighten leg and plonk down last bit.. all good

As I plonked, it was at this moment I felt a rather unpleasant and rather bracing pain hit me… panic mode set in but wasn’t the artery…. It was at this moment I realised as I was flat she was chatting and slapped the sticker on not only 3/4 of my pubes but also a small guinea pig worth of leg hair… the tape had a struggle until both sets of curlers were yanked out

I may have winced

On return I asked kindly for new strip and I helped position it for future loo breaks
Click to expand...
Fucking hell, I hope you get over all of this as soon as possible mate. If it keeps you in better spirits then Savona is awesome, and Aina was an idiot on the Goal, and I will hold those views until you have the total all clear!!!

Keep being argumentative and positive and funny
 
You must log in or register to reply here.