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Three score years and ten!

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Three score years and ten!

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OK - That was last June so now on my way to add another 1 to the total!

However, since I reached that milestone my health as suddenly gone down bank. At the end of April I was admitted to hospital with pneumonia. I was released after four days having been told to continue with the medication and that I would be fine!

They tell lies LOL!
A month ago it returned with a vengeance and I cannot hardly walk more than a few yards without being totally breathless and I am also experiencing chest pains. A side affect is that I cannot sleep at night as it becomes disturbed by my difficulty in breathing. At present I am managing about four hours per night.

Several visits to my GP have resulted in an ECG and two chest x-rays which have revealed that I may have both heart and lung problems. A visit to the hospital to see a consultant two weeks ago involved a Spirometer test to check my lung function and a CT scan. Since then the hospital have written to me and I am to see a heart/lung specialist tomorrow afternoon who is to take a sample of the fluid that appears to be slowly filling my right lung!
Nest week my GP has arranged for me to have an Echocardiogram at the local Nuffield to check my heart condition.

At the present time we should have been on holiday in Turkey but were forced to cancel on GP's advice as he thought that the cabin oxygen levels on the flights would be such that it would make me ill.
I am now in the middle of a battle with my insurance company!

Thank goodness for a little bit of UK sunshine!
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I sometimes really do wonder at our NHS :shock:

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Better being here and getting treatment that being in turkey at the moment. Hope they figure it out and get you sorted out, then you can enjoy a holiday.
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Oh Frankie!! Some birthday this one will be! bighug

So it is you we have to thank for this wonderful sunshine! ;) God is good to his own. .salut .salut

Please take things easier for a while Frankie, which I am sure Mrs C is already trying to make you do.

Once they do the Echo there will be a plan of action to help I am sure. ./thumbsup..

Keep us informed please Frankie.

Do you think we should have an area specifically for all us heart/lung/leg folks? :lol:

Wee prayers are winging their way to you Frankie. bighug bighug bighug

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Big positive thoughts all the way to you Frankie.

Take it easy and get better soon.
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Update.
Yesterday, Wednesday, I went to see the heart/lung consultant at the hospital. He reviewed the recent CT Scan that I had two weeks ago and has decided that yes, there is some fluid in my lungs, which has been there since 2011! News to me!
However, he does not think that it is this that is causing my breathing difficulties.
He suspects that it more likely to be my heart and he wants to see the results of the Echocardiogram that I am having done next week. He seems to think that I may have an enlarged heart and may require surgery to correct any abnormalities (I had a mild heart attack in 1997).
So, it's Monday for the Echocardiogram and a wait for yet another hospital appointment.
We plod on regardless!
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Wel Frankie, there's never a dull moment here is there!

All I can say is that it's good news that they are on the right path to finding the issues and then hopefully they can put them right. My other half is a nurse and from the converstaions we have about her job it seems like 90% of the job is diagnosis. I think some people can forget too easily these days the minor miracles they are capable of with medicine, surgery and all the means at our NHS's disposal!

Other than that I wish you all the best and a speedy recovery!
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Frankie, people just need to meet you once to know you have a "big heart". ;)

As Keith says, the diagnosis seems to be the biggest hurdle in the NHS and from what I hear and see in my cardio rehab group, these miracles Keith speaks of are just every day mechanics to the surgeons.

Hopefully your Echocardiogram will move things on for you soon Frankie.

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Best wishes to you Frankie :wave:

2011 :shock:
Hope your Echo goes well and whatever's up is easily treatable ../.

Meanwhile, have some gentle
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Good Luck Frankie

My wife has suffered from an enlarged heart for many years (Some say she needed ot to marry me, only joking) and depending on how it goes, medication may sort it or sometimes it does take an Op.

PM me if you want to know specifics.

Hope they sort you out soon.

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Good Luck Frankie,

I apparently have had heart problems for over 30 years but luckily they don't appear to affect me except for an annual check up and bi-annual echo-cardiogram (and of course a loading from any insurance company if I go abroad).

Hope things get better for you and they are able to get you back on track sooner rather than later.
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Further update.
I had my Echocardiogram on Monday evening at my local Nuffield private hospital.
I am afraid that they gave me no information and I have been told that the results will be viewed by a heart specialist and a report furnished to my GP. It will apparently take two to three weeks! (Why?)
Tomorrow I have to contact the heart/lung surgeon at my local NHS Hospital whom I saw last week to let him know this, as I presume that he will urge the results.
I am also going to see my GP on Friday as I have other issues such as loss of appetite (and almost three stone in weight).
Onwards and upwards,
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