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Justin Passing

Justin Passing

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I had a small routine carpal tunnel op. Ok for a couple of days then wham.
Four more ops to remove puss and infected tissues, and antibiotic whack a mole I'm home, but back every day for iv anti-bs for 2+ weeks.
Arm's a bloody mess, fingers not working properly. I was warned I could lose the arm because they have to cut good stuff away ahead of the nectrotised. Or worse.
I slept through most of the fuss, but watched the ops, they couldn't put me under.

No internet, tv, or reading. I was away with the fairies for 3? weeks.. Just turned the pc on.
Wound is left open, thee's nothing to stitch. All colours, looks like the inside of a long creme egg. It may need a graft.

Knackered.
Kinerts.


Typing left handed - hard!
 
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Justin Passing said:
I had a small routine carpal tunnel op. Ok for a couple of days then wham.
Four more ops to remove puss and infected tissues, and anti-b whack a mole I'm home, but back every day for iv anti-bs for 2+ weeks.
Arm's a bloody mess, fingers not working properly. I was warned I could lose the arm because they have to cut good stuff away ahead of the nectrotised. Or worse.
I slept through most of the fuss, but watched the ops, they couldn't put me under.

No internet, tv, or reading. I was away with the fairies for 3? weeks.. Just turned the pc on.
Wound is left open, thee's nothing to stitch. All colours, looks like the inside of a long creme egg. It may need a graft.

Knackered.
Kinerts.


Typing left handed - hard!
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Sepsis is a serious condition and I am glad you made it through, I have had mates not so lucky. Rest up and get well soon.
 
Justin Passing said:
I had a small routine carpal tunnel op. Ok for a couple of days then wham.
Four more ops to remove puss and infected tissues, and antibiotic whack a mole I'm home, but back every day for iv anti-bs for 2+ weeks.
Arm's a bloody mess, fingers not working properly. I was warned I could lose the arm because they have to cut good stuff away ahead of the nectrotised. Or worse.
I slept through most of the fuss, but watched the ops, they couldn't put me under.

No internet, tv, or reading. I was away with the fairies for 3? weeks.. Just turned the pc on.
Wound is left open, thee's nothing to stitch. All colours, looks like the inside of a long creme egg. It may need a graft.

Knackered.
Kinerts.


Typing left handed - hard!
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Jeez that sounds fekking really bad.

I had wondered if something was up as you hadn’t posted on your dealing thread, which I really enjoy, despite not understanding much

I really wish you all the best and hope the arm can be saved.
 
Best wishes. I'm not a believer, but for reasons I can't really explain, sometimes it feels pertinent to say my prayers are with you.
 
There is a bit more.
The day before I was due to be let out, Mrs P visited. She'd been away all that time up north.
She didn't look right.
We knew she'd recently had a bit of an irregular pulse, but so have I - ectopics. don't mean much.
She said she'd had a pain.....
"See a doctor".
Next morning, she called to say an ECG at the surgery said she'd had a heart attack.
They can be "silent".
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Note the AI interpretation. MI = Myocardial Infarction. "Infarct" means dead heart muscle.
ECG in A&E also said bad things.
I met her down there . Even I could see the ECGs had wrong things. They're hard to read, though.
She felt "ok".
Oh F***.
Troponin was fine though - that's a "marker" which gets released from the heart if it's in trouble.
(Like there's PSA for a prostate and CRP for infection)
It was zero. Eh? That doesn't make sense.

Get another ECG machine - it was bust.
Two further ECGs on different machines showed the same as each other-only a tiny anomaly from normal. This took hours of course.

So, there's something to check out, but no, she hadn't had a heart attack.

FFS
Glad to both get home.


Luckily I'd shifted investments to gold & derivatives, and it held up well, so that was all right! It earned a damned site more than the nurses who were, by the way, about
97% IMMIGRANTS.
 
Justin Passing said:
I had a small routine carpal tunnel op. Ok for a couple of days then wham.
Four more ops to remove puss and infected tissues, and antibiotic whack a mole I'm home, but back every day for iv anti-bs for 2+ weeks.
Arm's a bloody mess, fingers not working properly. I was warned I could lose the arm because they have to cut good stuff away ahead of the nectrotised. Or worse.
I slept through most of the fuss, but watched the ops, they couldn't put me under.

No internet, tv, or reading. I was away with the fairies for 3? weeks.. Just turned the pc on.
Wound is left open, thee's nothing to stitch. All colours, looks like the inside of a long creme egg. It may need a graft.

Knackered.
Kinerts.


Typing left handed - hard!
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Waw, hope you get well soon.

Just aswell they caught it in time.

My brother had to have his leg off because of it.
 
Thank the Lord for the 97% immigrants who staffed the hospital. It just goes to show how much immigrants are needed and that hospitals couldn't exist without them.
 
Ihavenojob said:
Legal I hope? I had septicemia years ago, that was pretty bad. I had nurses come round to my house daily to give me shots, saved taking up a bed.
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similar. They have a newish antibiotic* which kills MRSA and that which is expensive but a once a day drip, so I'm getting two cabs to get in and out every day. 4 hours on average.
Saves them £££ using the dictrict nurse who would be all done in 15 mins......
Only a couple more days.
Except that it feels like it's getting worse.

Teicoplanin, derived from something found on a soil sample in India in 1978.
They've found a whole array of drugs from Indian soil samples!!.
 
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