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Nah back then it was more Rick Rude .....OK now that I am a fatter bastard yeah I see it.
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Dear All
For the last 2 weeks my ticker went wacky again, silly me I had a cold drink after dog walkies and the esophagus is just behind the ticker and is a common trigger of Atrial Fibrillation. I have had various flavors of arrhythmia since the age of 17. I am the perfect storm for the condition heart SVT from the age of 17, runner till I needed new knees, bike rider, weightlifter and really tall.....tick , tick, tick, tick.
I had my fourth ablation yesterday and I was on the slab for around 3.75 hrs, this time fully knocked out with a tube down my throat. My throat feels like I have been gargling glass still. It turns out I am a super healer and the burns installed in my heart 14 and 7 years ago had completely healed and were fully conductive again, so they basically had to re burn them all and add a few new pathways. Its just like ignition leads in a car cross firing. Basically for the last 2 weeks I have been walking around with only 2 out of 4 chambers working.
Now come the good bits
All is good and I was released from hospital on the same day and I spent 2 hrs at the dog park this morning watching my Rhodesian Greyhound beat up all the other dogs.....they have a great time. I am taking today off work but I will be back tomorrow. Dave the Bitch is running the joint and steering the good ship Involve straight into the iceberg.
Last 3 times having the same procedure, I ended up writing nasty letters to the hospital in regard to the terrible standard of nursing care and lack of any preservation of patient dignity. I am not shy but it greatly bothers me when the curtains are fully open with your tackle on view as kids and mum's are walking by copping an eyeful. Thus happened repeatedly and even in the operating theater when they left the doors open in full public view, butt naked (for no reason on the slab with 8 mostly female strangers around and one 16 year old female student). Even masseuses know about draping.
As you know nurses are "trained professionals" and are not bothered by nudity so being a very pushy bastard I even challenged them to have a meeting together with me in a room of the hospital ALL NAKED with the door open....they did not reply! My real concern is the reverse- can you imagine a shy girl butt naked with say 7 male nurses all around, it does not happen.
Anyway my mini campaign worked!! In the new hospital wing the quality of the nursing staff dramatically changes, curtains were closed at all times, they asked my permission to do things and their were no inappropriate events. Even in the surgery appropriate draping was uses (as much as I was conscious- but that's the Bill Cosby excuse!). Hey they even got new smocks so you don't get to walk around with your arse hanging out- but its a struggle to fit my 120Kg (270 lbs)
The best part is that I walked in at 7 am , signed up and walked out at 4.30 AND PAID ZERO! OK I pay my taxes but I have been uninsured for nearly 40 years and this was by far the best cardiac facility I have seen (I have personally paid for private operations....(knees and arms).
These are the horrors of nationalised health that has now been stuffed up in the current public/ private hybrid mess unlike the perfect system that was introduced in 1974 by the then health minister Bill Hayden RIP.
Lub Dub, Lub Dub
For the last 2 weeks my ticker went wacky again, silly me I had a cold drink after dog walkies and the esophagus is just behind the ticker and is a common trigger of Atrial Fibrillation. I have had various flavors of arrhythmia since the age of 17. I am the perfect storm for the condition heart SVT from the age of 17, runner till I needed new knees, bike rider, weightlifter and really tall.....tick , tick, tick, tick.
I had my fourth ablation yesterday and I was on the slab for around 3.75 hrs, this time fully knocked out with a tube down my throat. My throat feels like I have been gargling glass still. It turns out I am a super healer and the burns installed in my heart 14 and 7 years ago had completely healed and were fully conductive again, so they basically had to re burn them all and add a few new pathways. Its just like ignition leads in a car cross firing. Basically for the last 2 weeks I have been walking around with only 2 out of 4 chambers working.
Now come the good bits
All is good and I was released from hospital on the same day and I spent 2 hrs at the dog park this morning watching my Rhodesian Greyhound beat up all the other dogs.....they have a great time. I am taking today off work but I will be back tomorrow. Dave the Bitch is running the joint and steering the good ship Involve straight into the iceberg.
Last 3 times having the same procedure, I ended up writing nasty letters to the hospital in regard to the terrible standard of nursing care and lack of any preservation of patient dignity. I am not shy but it greatly bothers me when the curtains are fully open with your tackle on view as kids and mum's are walking by copping an eyeful. Thus happened repeatedly and even in the operating theater when they left the doors open in full public view, butt naked (for no reason on the slab with 8 mostly female strangers around and one 16 year old female student). Even masseuses know about draping.
As you know nurses are "trained professionals" and are not bothered by nudity so being a very pushy bastard I even challenged them to have a meeting together with me in a room of the hospital ALL NAKED with the door open....they did not reply! My real concern is the reverse- can you imagine a shy girl butt naked with say 7 male nurses all around, it does not happen.
Anyway my mini campaign worked!! In the new hospital wing the quality of the nursing staff dramatically changes, curtains were closed at all times, they asked my permission to do things and their were no inappropriate events. Even in the surgery appropriate draping was uses (as much as I was conscious- but that's the Bill Cosby excuse!). Hey they even got new smocks so you don't get to walk around with your arse hanging out- but its a struggle to fit my 120Kg (270 lbs)
The best part is that I walked in at 7 am , signed up and walked out at 4.30 AND PAID ZERO! OK I pay my taxes but I have been uninsured for nearly 40 years and this was by far the best cardiac facility I have seen (I have personally paid for private operations....(knees and arms).
These are the horrors of nationalised health that has now been stuffed up in the current public/ private hybrid mess unlike the perfect system that was introduced in 1974 by the then health minister Bill Hayden RIP.
Lub Dub, Lub Dub
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Well kids the saga continues. After an ablation there is a 2 - 3 month period when the scars are healing and forming a insulating block (called the blanking period). During this period the heart may randomly go wacky, Lucky me every Friday/ Saturday for the last 3 weeks after the operation my ticker has gone wacky again and I have had to go back to hospital for a zap reset at 200 Joules. Hey I just got back home from my 3rd 30 minutes ago.
Here is a picture my wife took of me in the process:
Anyway, I am still tickin and with you guys.
Oh, below is a picture of the poverty stricken Gulag public hospital room I was in for my surgery all by myself. The 70 year old hag in the background is my scrawny wife:
I so wish I did not dump my private insurance 40 years ago.....it was hell I tell you.
Ticker boy Chuck
Here is a picture my wife took of me in the process:
Anyway, I am still tickin and with you guys.
Oh, below is a picture of the poverty stricken Gulag public hospital room I was in for my surgery all by myself. The 70 year old hag in the background is my scrawny wife:
I so wish I did not dump my private insurance 40 years ago.....it was hell I tell you.
Ticker boy Chuck
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Glad to hear you're doing fine now, take it easy....... but my wicked sense of humour came to the fore, and for some reason your troubles reminded me of the 1960s Peter Sellers/Sophie Loren film The Millionaires and this (George Martin produced) song
Ouch! My buddy Gene just went thru that after his ablation, so far only one "reset".
Hope your both done with that crap now.
cent' anni,
Sal
@chucky3042, glad you’re still pushing the daisies down, and we’re all anxious to hear what your next amazing feat will be.
Procrastination of demise is recommended.
Procrastination of demise is recommended.
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Many thanks
Looks like the electrostatic woofer is getting tough, Dave's de clicking preamp is getting closer and my super big monster electrostatic speaker is held up due to low funds at the moment
I definitely understand how R&D can be held up by budgets. I had my own shop for a while, and it was always a struggle. Keep up the good fight.
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Ahoy all! Been a hot minute since I posted in here, here a couple of pics of me and my daughter from a photo booth at a friend's birthday party.
Hope you're having a happy whatever-is-happening.
~D (Captain)
Hope you're having a happy whatever-is-happening.
~D (Captain)
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That too.
I see you've been 'biding your time'
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???
Dummy me I guess I should know .
