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Hi all,
Thank you all those ABers who conveyed their best wishes with regard to my hospital recovery. A special thanks to Margo who passed on Mrs retros bulletins.
Although I am now home and the stent op was successful it has produced other problems which are now giving more concern.
The day after the op I had a CT scan (Thursday). The contrast dye shot my creatine/bloods up to 227. My level was 80 pre op and the norm is between 60-100. This seemed to cause them concern and I was put on continuous 16hr IV sodium lactose to flush out the kidneys.The 'cretin' levels began to drop slightly and on Sunday they were 165. Still too high but I guess it was dropping too slowly for their bed requirements and I was told I could go home on the provisio I promised to attend GP centre yesterday and have blood test to ensure it was still dropping. If it rose I would have to go back to vascular ward. I was told to drink copious amounts of water at home.
I went to bet about 2030hrs on Sunday evening as I was shattered through lack of sleep in ward. I became semi conscious at about midnight and found I was fighting for breath. I really thought I was about to curl my toes up. On occsions I involuntarily 'forgot' to breathe and had to sit upright and gasp lungfuls of air whilst wheezing like an old steam engine. Quite alarming and Mrs retro slept through it all quite oblivious.
Next morning I could hardly talk through my acute breathfulness and managed to get a early GP appt.
The GP was most concerned especially as I started coughing blood in her surgery. She spoke to the vascular team back at St Georges and they said,"Not our problem doc. Sounds a medical problem. Send him to casualty!"
We arrived at casualty with a letter of referral from our brilliant GP. More blood tests,ECG and chest X-Ray. End result is suspected renal and heart failure plus water in the lungs due to excessive fluid intakes.
The heart could cope and pump the fluids and weakened it and the kidneys were overwhelmed as well! We got home 2100 hours last night.
We are back to St Georges tomorrow at 0900 where I have more blood/'cretin' level checks and a heart echogram to ascertain the damage.
Meanwhile I am on 1litre fluid restriction per day and diuretic tablets.
Not a very satisfactory state of affairs and I am beginning to wonder if it was all worth it.
Well I can still get back to the crossword section here and enjoy some banter with my friends.
Thanks all again for your kind thoughts.
Thank you all those ABers who conveyed their best wishes with regard to my hospital recovery. A special thanks to Margo who passed on Mrs retros bulletins.
Although I am now home and the stent op was successful it has produced other problems which are now giving more concern.
The day after the op I had a CT scan (Thursday). The contrast dye shot my creatine/bloods up to 227. My level was 80 pre op and the norm is between 60-100. This seemed to cause them concern and I was put on continuous 16hr IV sodium lactose to flush out the kidneys.The 'cretin' levels began to drop slightly and on Sunday they were 165. Still too high but I guess it was dropping too slowly for their bed requirements and I was told I could go home on the provisio I promised to attend GP centre yesterday and have blood test to ensure it was still dropping. If it rose I would have to go back to vascular ward. I was told to drink copious amounts of water at home.
I went to bet about 2030hrs on Sunday evening as I was shattered through lack of sleep in ward. I became semi conscious at about midnight and found I was fighting for breath. I really thought I was about to curl my toes up. On occsions I involuntarily 'forgot' to breathe and had to sit upright and gasp lungfuls of air whilst wheezing like an old steam engine. Quite alarming and Mrs retro slept through it all quite oblivious.
Next morning I could hardly talk through my acute breathfulness and managed to get a early GP appt.
The GP was most concerned especially as I started coughing blood in her surgery. She spoke to the vascular team back at St Georges and they said,"Not our problem doc. Sounds a medical problem. Send him to casualty!"
We arrived at casualty with a letter of referral from our brilliant GP. More blood tests,ECG and chest X-Ray. End result is suspected renal and heart failure plus water in the lungs due to excessive fluid intakes.
The heart could cope and pump the fluids and weakened it and the kidneys were overwhelmed as well! We got home 2100 hours last night.
We are back to St Georges tomorrow at 0900 where I have more blood/'cretin' level checks and a heart echogram to ascertain the damage.
Meanwhile I am on 1litre fluid restriction per day and diuretic tablets.
Not a very satisfactory state of affairs and I am beginning to wonder if it was all worth it.
Well I can still get back to the crossword section here and enjoy some banter with my friends.
Thanks all again for your kind thoughts.
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