The New Year has not started well for me. On 2 January, I had some chest discomfort and went to the E.R. where they ran an ECG that showed irregularities. An Angiogram showed no blockages and no need for a stent, but there is still something not right...the official description is that it may be myocarditis or 'something else'. More questions, scanning, poking and prodding will be required to get to the bottom it all. The good thing is that I feel perfectly well and am in no discomfort, but it is not how I expected to spend my last day of my holiday...
Meanwhile I will be MIA for a few more days and that unit of Ottoman Turk cavalry that is two-thirds completed on the painting tray will remain incomplete a while longer.
The absolute positive is that I can catch up on the reading backlog and have started with Michael Leggiere's The Fall of Napoleon: The Allied Invasion of France, 1813–1814.
Best wishes, Mark. Hope you get this figured out soon.
ReplyDeleteThanks Jonathan. We have a public health system here and it is often much maligned, but have nothing but praise for the care I've received, although I keenly await the moment that am NOT under their care.
DeleteSorry to hear about this, Mark. It doesn't sound like cause for undue worry, but obviously they need to pin down what's happened. Make sure they look after you.
ReplyDeleteThank you John. It's the 'or something else' that might be a concern. There has been a lot of complaints about our heath service (along the lines I read of your NHS) and they may be underfunded and waiting lists may be too long, but they are doing a damned fine job for me...in fact just now a transfer nurse who rode with me from my first hospital to the second (I am now at my third hospital) has just dropped someone at the current hospital and just dropped by to see if I was OK...nice touch.
DeleteBest of luck with that, hopefully nothing long term or serious. Yours is one of my favorite blogs and love both your painting style and AARs.
ReplyDeleteThanks Joseph. One test is done so I guess I may learn some more at tomorrow morning's doctor's rounds.
DeleteHey Mark - where are you now - Middlemore or Auckland? Let me know and I might drop in and see you for a bit if you are really lucky! This hasn't been a good couple of months for our group, what with Chris and his heart attack back in Oct/Nov.....
ReplyDeleteYes we are keeping the health system busy...replied to your private email.
Deletesorry to hear this news, take care and keep us posted
ReplyDeleteThanks Bruce, shall do.
DeleteI saw you were in hospital via Stew's Blog last night. Fingers crossed that you get sorted and are back to normal ASAP. Our NHS is excellent for emergencies, but is struggling somewhat with routine care. Enjoy reading the book and hope you are discharged soon. All the best!
ReplyDeleteI feel right as rain now. It's all a mystery that is hopefully solved soon...I was just saying the other day I wish I had extended my days off, but I think the genie misinterpreted my wish!
DeleteBest wishes and hope they get to the bottom of it soon
ReplyDeleteThank you Neil.
DeleteMark, hope it gets sorted easily and quickly, enjoy your reading.
ReplyDeleteThanks Norm. There is much reading to be done. I hav amassed several dozen digital book over the last few years that need attention.
DeleteBest wishes...and a speedy recovery.
ReplyDeleteThanks Stuart...I am over this holiday camp already...
DeleteHopefully all will be well with you Mark…
ReplyDeleteMaybe it was a rapid figure painting related deep muscle strain 😱
All the best. Aly
Maybe so..I might just raise that though with the consultant, if only to see the look on his face!
DeleteGet well soon
ReplyDeleteThank you Nick
Deletebest wishes my online friend. Glad you feel well now, and the mystery will be solved without needing drastic actions.
ReplyDeleteThanks Stew. I feel a bit of a fraud as I sit here feeling perfectly well while there are three others in the same room with multiple problems. It should be noted that I am the youngest in the room by 20 years (30 in one case).
DeleteThat is a shock to read. Three hospitals since New Year's. My thoughts are with you, and I hope they get it sorted soon. I'm still plugging my way through Volume 2 of Leggiere's work on the 1813 campaign. I thoroughly enjoyed Volume 1 and his earlier 'Napoleon and Berlin', but Volume 2 might be just the thing to help you sleep in a busy hospital or if they run out of anaesthetics.
ReplyDelete(There is no doubt it is a scholarly work, but the thing that is annoying me is that there can be two pages dedicated to such description as 'Blucher issued orders for York to move the first part of his corps up the Katzbach-Breslau road to Goldberg, and Langeron to send the vanguard of his corps two hours later via the Bohemia-Dresden road toward Leipzig. Gneisenau read these orders and countermanded them and instead ordered York to retreat toward the prepared positions at Bundeslau, and for Langeron to move toward the Bohemian mountains. However, none of these orders reached the respective corps commanders in time so nothing happened'.
Get well soon.
In truth it was three hospitals waiting seven hours so a good bit of ping pong going on there. At least I was taken from the first to the second with lights flashing and sirens wailing, which was a bit fun, so there must have been something on the ECG that bothered them. I am enjoying the Leggiere book, but it is a bit of a struggle to concentrate here with the noise at times...too many "machines that go bing" (if you remember your Month Python).
DeleteHope your ok Mark, take care of yourself, regards David
ReplyDeleteThanks David. I am OK - just incarcerated and bored.
DeleteGlad to hear. Bored is the best thing under the circumstances
DeleteToo true!
DeleteHope you are on the mend. Enjoy the reading and know there are a few people who want you better quickly.
ReplyDeleteThanks Joe. While I am still incarcerated, I have felt well since I got into hospital. Just need one more test that they should run tomorrow. Am very keen to escape.
DeleteWell this is hardly the news one wants to hear. Hopefully all will be sorted soonest. Many happy thoughts to keep you company from my direction.
ReplyDeleteSalute
von Peter himself
Thanks Peter. My incarceration is ended now and I am home now. Looks like no long term damage done. Just need to take it easy for a week or two.
DeleteGlad to hear you are home and no long-term damage. Was myocarditis the diagnosis and they didn't find anything else?
ReplyDeleteThanks John. Yes myocarditis is the final diagnosis. A few of weeks taking it easy with some anti-inflammatory medication is the treatment.
DeleteOK, that doesn't sound too bad. Nothing at all would be even better, but that's not how ageing works really. I had a very small heart attack seventeen years ago, and not had the slightest trouble from it since, touch wood.
DeleteThis presented like a heart attack, which is why I was sent to another hospital for the angiogram with lights flashing and sirens wailing, but soon settled once the pumped me full of blood thinners. The only annoying thing right now is that I am not allowed to mow the lawns and they are grwing like mad in the warm weather..
DeleteJust read about this on Keith's blog, hope you're well soon!
ReplyDeleteBest Iain
Thanks Iain. Almost back to normal.
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