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Today is the First Day of the Rest of my Life

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Posted 22 Feb 2015 at 15:26
Good news Steve regarding your wife. Look what you've been through and how far you've come. A lot of the battles are behind you, It's a new day tomorrow.

Take care, Arthur

User
Posted 22 Feb 2015 at 15:43

Great news Steve, I'm very pleased for you and your wife. Sorry I'm a bit late, having gone through the last few months without so much as a sniffle whilst everyone we know, including my wife, having had bad coughs and colds I've come down with the mother of all colds and I'm feeling rotten.

 

I hate colds.

 

 

Steve

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Posted 22 Feb 2015 at 15:51

Originally Posted by: Online Community Member
Welcome home, Kevin. They let you back into the country with your additional artwork then?

Steve

 

I'm afraid so Steve.

Feeling knackered, 26 hours door to door  :(

 

ATB

 

Kevin

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Posted 22 Feb 2015 at 17:03

Hi,

Thanks for all the messages.

I feel as if a weight has been lifted off my shoulders today.

George, I'm so looking forward to the June event, I hope to get some good pictures for you.  Sounds like there will be lots to photograph.

Arthur, Thank you for your message.

Steve, So sorry you're feeling so ill at the moment, I hate colds too.

Kevin, rest up now. Sorry about the dreadful weather you've returned to, it's what us non jetsetters have to put up with.  I hope you've had a great time.  Would love to see more pictures.  I hope you wife is feeling much better now.  See you in June.

All the Best Everyone.

Steve

 

User
Posted 22 Feb 2015 at 17:20
Steve

Great news, let's hope that sets a trend for the future.

Thanks Chris

User
Posted 22 Feb 2015 at 17:24

Huge relief.

Thank God.

Alison

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Posted 22 Feb 2015 at 18:59

I have a bit of a quandary this year ...... bring the sheep again or the Harley D? Great photos of the sheep last time (she at least was willing to stand still for the panoramic) or more trips round the block with John for Ness and any other secret bikerchicks? What a decision :-(

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." Soren Kierkegaard

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Posted 25 Feb 2015 at 00:47

Hi,

Back to the business of recovery and my aim to get back to work at some point.

Attended my cardiac rehab session today (Tuesday), had my blood pressure and heart rate checked, low again, had an ECG and my rehab nurse decided it was time to email my consultant about my continuing problems. 

Managed to get through the exercise session, heart rate after was only 39 (still too low).

I did discuss the possibility that I should drop out the course and continue at a later date when my heart problem was sorted but my nurse said I should continue it.  So I agreed I would try.

I'm due to have an echocardiogram next Tuesday.  Heaven knows when I will have the portable heart monitor for 24hrs I was promised.  My nurse said I could have to wait for four or five weeks before that happens.  It's a shame because I think it would give a good indication of what might be going wrong.

Steve

 

User
Posted 25 Feb 2015 at 19:47
Hi,

Woke up with a really bad cold, where did that suddenly come from? Had no signs it was coming on. Feel really ill, must be Man Flu!

My Cardiac Rehab nurse rang me to say my consultant wants me to stop taking my beta blocker medication straight away in an attempt to improve my low heart rate situation.

Had to see my temporary GP today so he could renew my sick note and to review my recent blood tests. I walked in and he said I looked ill. Cancer, Heart condition and a Cold. Really smart this guy! He made me have my second ECG in two days. He was concerned with my results and said sometimes people need a pacemaker following a heart attack. Anyway, he said he would see what my consultant thought. Have to wait another 4 weeks for my next appointment with my consultant.

I'm interested to see what happens when I stop taking my beta blockers.

Steve

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Posted 27 Feb 2015 at 00:42

Hi,

Felt really ill today, my cold has got worse. Unfortunately, I had to miss my cardiac rehab course today (Thursday) because I wasn't well enough to do it.

The thing that hurt the most is that my eldest daughter (plus Alexander, our grandson) was taking my wife and I to see my daughter who lives in Southampton and going out for a meal.  In the end, I was too ill to go but I still wanted them to go because I didn't want to ruin the day for them.  I stayed at home, intending to do a bit of writing but didn't manage it in the end, just felt too weak to do anything.  So slept mostly.

Following my consultant's advice I stopped taking my beta blockers medication, I hope that makes some difference to my low heart rate problems.  It will probably go the other way now.  Still, we can only see what happens.

Steve

 

 

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Posted 27 Feb 2015 at 04:51
Hi Steve, sounds like things are not getting any easier for you at the moment, I can only imagine how this makes you feel.

Please keep your spirits up, you are so important to so many people both at home and on this forum, everyone is rooting for you and are looking forward to you being back working again, it's clearly just gonna take some time.

Kev

Dream like you have forever, live like you only have today Avatar is me doing the 600 mile Camino de Santiago May 2019

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Posted 27 Feb 2015 at 07:06

If your body is telling you you need sleep, then sleep. Hope all goes well with the stopping of the beta blockers. Have a good weekend.

dave

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Posted 27 Feb 2015 at 08:52

Sleep is supposed to be a great healer Steve so go with it.

I think you should change your name to Job!! You've had as many trials and tribulations as he did/

Rest up young man. Don't challenge your body because you think it should be doing something else.

I know how disappointed you must have been to have missed the visit but it was the wisest choice, not just for you but your daughters and baby too.

Keep warm and snug and rest.

All the best
Sandra

We can't control the winds - but we can adjust our sails
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Posted 27 Feb 2015 at 09:10
It turned out right for Job in the end and he had twice as much more than he started with! That's good things not bad! The latter part of his life was better that the first part. Hoping this for you Steve.

Arthur

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User
Posted 27 Feb 2015 at 09:37
Steve

I got your PM and have just replied.

There are so many bugs doing the rounds at the moment, when you are already ill your immune system is in overload and so you become prone to everything.

Stopping the beta blockers sounds sensible if your heart rate is so low you probably should not be taking them.

I agree with the advice already given, sleep when you want to it is the 2nd best healer after loads of kisses,hugs and cuddles no matter how they come in real person from your Wife and family or virtually from us.

I am not a religious person but I do remember from school RE that Job had a tough time, as an aside and one to prod the memories of local knowledge, I spent my very early childhood in Didcot Berks and our local dairy was called Jobs Dairy. If I remember well (and this was over 50 years ago)they had a huge milk bottle which to a 4 year old seemed like 100 feet tall outside the gate to the yard, you could see it for miles as you came into Didcot from the A34 area.

xxx

Mo

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User
Posted 27 Feb 2015 at 12:28

Hi,

Coming off Beta blockers can make you feel very rough. Surprised you were not told to reduce dose gradually. Hope you feel better today and its just manflu.!

ATB,El.

User
Posted 27 Feb 2015 at 13:42

Sleep and rest are vital to your recovery. I'm sure there is lots of family support. Not easy, but keep positive for the future. Believing there will be a light at the end of the tunnel will help you reach that daylight more quickly.

Paul

Stay Calm And Carry On.
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Posted 27 Feb 2015 at 15:07
Hi Mo

Ref Jobs dairy my wife and I both worked for the company that made bottles for them. They had a dairy at Hanworth that had a huge cow (not real!!) on the roof. My wife went there on a school trip and had to write about the life of a milk bottle.

Arthur

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Posted 28 Feb 2015 at 15:17
Hi,

Thanks for your messages everyone.

Really feeling sorry for myself today, not for health reasons but because my beloved football team (Nottingham Forest) are playing Reading only a few miles away from my house.

I can't go, partly because of my cold but mainly because my money has run out.

To be honest, even if I had some dosh left over, I couldn't justify spending that on watching a football match. I've decided there should be a special benefit you could claim for special occasions like this, to raise the spirits of those who are facing potentially life threatening diseases!

At times like this, I always smile when I think of the famous Bill Shankley quote "Football's not a matter of Life or Death... It's more important than that".

Just hope we win.

Steve

User
Posted 28 Feb 2015 at 17:33

Hi Steve great result today hope that's made you feel better! Arthur

 
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