Michael Hickman Posted April 30, 2012 Share Posted April 30, 2012 Hi Myron Good to see "your back". Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myron Beaumont Posted April 30, 2012 Author Share Posted April 30, 2012 AND another thing! They put me on nicotine patches- full strength ones .Not until I got home did I work out that they were pumping about ten times more nicotine into my partial blood system than my 30 roll ups did per day. As a consequence I am trying to get back to my 30 a day just like I've been used to for 50 odd years . At least I'm not woken every two hours to have my blood pressure taken . After a couple of days ,I was taking bets as to what it was and was within 5 most times on the two measurements . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flytilbroke Posted April 30, 2012 Share Posted April 30, 2012 Be tough, be thrawn. One of the "good old boys" at Aviemore had problems and had to quit. His good lady joined him. You would not believe that thier colour was not really yellow/light brown and the extra forty £ a day is usefull too he says. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernie Posted April 30, 2012 Share Posted April 30, 2012 Rebonjour ernie Edited By Ernie on 30/04/2012 13:39:20 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antiquated Posted April 30, 2012 Share Posted April 30, 2012 Posted by Myron Beaumont on 30/04/2012 12:41:41: At least I'm not woken every two hours to have my blood pressure taken . After a couple of days ,I was taking bets as to what it was and was within 5 most times on the two measurements . That is a real pain - just as you try to get some sleep - they wake you up again I was told off for reading the monitoring machine. Did you play the "guess how many doctors it takes to get an arterial blood sample" game? I think my record was to defeat 5, before the 6th managed it (just) - including an over-confident anaesthetist Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myron Beaumont Posted April 30, 2012 Author Share Posted April 30, 2012 Antiquated The first " doctor " put the plastic thingy with a tap on it for drip feed and samples the wrong way round in the inner bend of my elbow .Needless to say it fell out that night.. I kept it and maybe can use it in my fuel system somewhere .Handy little 3 way gubbins! Today Chrissy picked up my follow on prescription from my GP who is supposed to know I've been in hospital .Oh no! I now have more articles prescribed for me after my hip replacement .ie Pain killers etc . Never ending all this inefficiency around us isn't it . ? Makes me wonder how aeroplanes aren't falling out the sky everyday & 50% of patients don't end up in the crematorium conveniently adjoining the hospital Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antiquated Posted April 30, 2012 Share Posted April 30, 2012 I didn't think to keep the plastic tubing and taps once they came out - including the nice length of silicon tubing with extra internal tube (mind you, I'm not sure I would have wanted to think about where it had been!). A few weeks after my "adventure" they had a fire in the CT/MRI room that pretty much destroyed it - and then a nearby hospital had an accident when a nurse took a metal wheelchair in to *their* MRI room (fortunately no one was hurt in either case). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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