Gripe of the day - What is yours?

[chris8886]

operations, especially ones under only local anaesthetic on your heart that surgeon says she needs me awake for it (it's not open heart obviously). i'm absolutely bricking myself!

[Bibio]

Originally Posted by chris8886

operations, especially ones under only local anaesthetic on your heart that surgeon says she needs me awake for it (it's not open heart obviously). i'm absolutely bricking myself!

no need to brick it m8.. trust me i've had 4 angio's. its absolutely no bother and no pain. i have had one in the wrist and three in the groin. the first one i was like you and bricking myself but it was nothing. you will nod in and out and be sedated enough not to feel anything.

from speaking to others even fitting a pacemaker is easy.

the dentist is faaaarrrrrr worse.

[chris8886]

Originally Posted by Bibio

no need to brick it m8.. trust me i've had 4 angio's. its absolutely no bother and no pain. i have had one in the wrist and three in the groin. the first one i was like you and bricking myself but it was nothing. you will nod in and out and be sedated enough not to feel anything.

from speaking to others even fitting a pacemaker is easy.

the dentist is faaaarrrrrr worse.

That’s part of it though, she needs me awake so she can stress me to try and find my dodgy heart beats.

I’ve got the pacemaker (actually a defibrillator, but it’s just easier to say it’s a pacemaker most of the time) and I made th do that under a general and mine’s only just under my skin.

[Bibio]

the surgeon is more than likely just going to test the defib to assess how its working and if anything need tweaked. as far as i know the defib tweaking is done wirelessly theses days.

dont fret... it'll be a breeze. well do fret but only when the surgeon tells you to.. lol

its a pocket watch... it needs tweaking now and again... lol

[chris8886]

Originally Posted by Bibio

the surgeon is more than likely just going to test the defib to assess how its working and if anything need tweaked. as far as i know the defib tweaking is done wirelessly theses days.

dont fret... it'll be a breeze. well do fret but only when the surgeon tells you to.. lol

its a pocket watch... it needs tweaking now and again... lol

Nah, is nothing to do with the defib, it’s about getting me anxious so that I hopefully produce the weird beats that are screwing me over, so that she can ablate them. And needs me awake so she can stress me out! So that I then hopefully produce said beats and they can be ablated.

[Bibio]

Originally Posted by chris8886

Nah, is nothing to do with the defib, it’s about getting me anxious so that I hopefully produce the weird beats that are screwing me over, so that she can ablate them. And needs me awake so she can stress me out! So that I then hopefully produce said beats and they can be ablated.

sounds fun.. nothing like a good stress workout

hope it all goes well for you when the time comes.

[SV650rules]

Originally Posted by Seeker

I emailed the local NHS to see if it can be moved forward. I have also discovered it's possible to go private in a NHS hospital - why is that allowed? Anyway, I asked them for pricing too. The 'net seems to think it would be about £1400.

Senior doctors and consultants often work for private companies as well as the NHS, they will often arrange consultations privately and then put patients back on the NHS for the treatment, but it looks as though they are using NHS facilities more and more.

[Bibio]

and there you have it folks.. the big push to privatise the NHS.... anybody who pays to have private health via an NHS hospital is basically a queue jumper. this practise should be stopped immediately. i say ban private health completely, that way the rich would complain and something would get done.

[SV650rules]

Originally Posted by Seeker

I think that is why there's a growth in "medical tourism": travel to another country to get your procedure done quicker/cheaper or, worst case, botched.

Still, the Tories have said austerity is over, next they'll say they care.

I agree with stopping private healthcare though. In Lincolnshire most of our hospitals are going to agencies because we're short of nurses, doctors, consultants and paying through the nose for the privilege of hiring medical staff that may have been initially trained by the NHS. Lincoln NHS trust is forecasting spending £32 million on agencies.

Friend of my wife was a bank nurse ( agency ) and decided to rejoin NHS - she took a 30% drop in pay but had more security and only had to travel short distance to work. I can only guess what the agency was being paid by NHS if they could afford to pay people 30% more and still make a nice profit.

[Bibio]

biggest u turn in uk political/law history https://www.express.co.uk/life-style...l-prescription

after telling the public that it was bad for you yada yada for 40+ years it now has medical uses. nothing to do with the owner of the company giving the licence being friends with someone.. no not at all.

only saying as i picked up a leaflet in the chemist earlier and asked if it was a joke..