Thread: Hospital - Beards Warning !

Originally Posted by p38arover

Going in to have a stent next week. There was too much calcification to stent me when I had the angio. I saw the cardiologist yesterday, they’ll try a new technique to shatter the calcium with ultrasonics before stenting. I might need two stents formed into a Y.

Sure beats having a bypass.

Anything beats a bypass... the leg they harvest the graft from (usually the Great Saphenous Vein) can get thicker, slower circulation etc. - Too many of my R shoes are now overly tight to wear. plus a % of patients can have a cognitive decline several years afterwards...

Given what I NOW know, I may have declined or delayed my by-passes back in 2016.

I should have asked more questions and had the answers in print...

Had stents before, very much a non-event. Disappointing also, as the (groin) scars cannot be shown off to garner 'sympathy'.
- Sternal wounds are.... Impressive.

Originally Posted by superquag

Disappointing also, as the (groin) scars cannot be shown off to garner 'sympathy'.

Why?

Waking up sans beard is not as bad as someone I know, who went in to hospital to have some polyps removed, when he woke up he found 17 stitches in his chest, apparently they hit a blood vessel, so had to open him up, people said he should sue, but he was just happy to be alive.

Originally Posted by RANDLOVER

Waking up sans beard is not as bad as someone I know, who went in to hospital to have some polyps removed, when he woke up he found 17 stitches in his chest, apparently they hit a blood vessel, so had to open him up, people said he should sue, but he was just happy to be alive.

Exactly, we're not in America.