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[Guest]

Ended up having the surgery early Monday afternoon. All went well, and I'm now at home recovering, minus one gallbladder and with with six more holes in my body than what I went in with. I'm told they'll heal up though, and I'll be back to the usual amount in no time.

 

The gallstones were whoppers as well.

You can test the resilience of the site during your recuperation. Get well soon.

[General Dryness]

Cheers fellas.

[KMD7]

Ended up having the surgery early Monday afternoon. All went well, and I'm now at home recovering, minus one gallbladder and with with six more holes in my body than what I went in with. I'm told they'll heal up though, and I'll be back to the usual amount in no time.

 

The gallstones were whoppers as well.

 

Nice one GD, good you're doing well.. Any timescale on recovery? I had to take 4 weeks off work after mine was removed and that was after keyhole surgery like you had. I'd be careful with fatty foods from now on as I started getting terrible belching a few weeks after.  

 

P.S. Glad you're not dead

[General Dryness]

Nice one GD, good you're doing well.. Any timescale on recovery? I had to take 4 weeks off work after mine was removed and that was after keyhole surgery like you had. I'd be careful with fatty foods from now on as I started getting terrible belching a few weeks after.  

 

P.S. Glad you're not dead

 

Cheers mate, I'm signed off until next wednesday, but I'm in an office job so I reckon I'll be capable of sitting in a chair pressing buttons and shuffling papers by then. 

 

I've had the list of what I can and can't eat. Its not going to be easy but it'll do me good.

[Lee909]

Glad it all went well

 

The scars will heal up no issue

I wangled 7 weeks off,should have been 5 but with open surgery and my history an additional couple of weeks was easy done.

[lifetime fan]

Cheers mate, I'm signed off until next wednesday, but I'm in an office job so I reckon I'll be capable of sitting in a chair pressing buttons and shuffling papers by then.

 

I've had the list of what I can and can't eat. Its not going to be easy but it'll do me good.

 

Fuck that.

 

Milk it for as long as you can have off mate.

[General Dryness]

Fuck that.

 

Milk it for as long as you can have off mate.

 

No DHSS here mate. You get 5 paid sick days a year in this country (some employers give more, but 5 is the minimum by law), after that its annual leave and after that its unpaid.

 

One thing I fucking hate about New Zealand.

[lifetime fan]

No DHSS here mate. You get 5 paid sick days a year in this country (some employers give more, but 5 is the minimum by law), after that its annual leave and after that its unpaid.

 

One thing I fucking hate about New Zealand.

 

 

Get your arse out of bed then you lazy cunt then. 

[Lee909]

Fucking hell 5 days

[Elite]

5 days is plenty of time. There's lads with their limbs bring blown off in Irag doing Marathons days later.

 

Get well soon mate.

[Guest katanauk]

Hi everyone.

[Remmie]

Hi everyone.

In order to decide whether I like you or you will be my mortal enemy for eternity; what are your views on beans on a full English breakfast?

[Elite]

He's been here before. You don't introduce yourself on an ailment thread. It'll be Code (96th generation) or that blogger.

[VladimirIlyich]

He's been here before. You don't introduce yourself on an ailment thread. It'll be Code (96th generation) or that blogger.

Same person weren't they?

[Charles Penrose]

This one isn’t about me but my girlfriend/Mother of my kids.

 

Just over a year ago she ran a half marathon in a great time. She’s always been a keen runner and just gets on with things regardless. In any case she began to have issues with balance and coordination which progressed to general fatigue and confusion/memory fog to the point she thought she’d had a stroke. The last year was hellish day after hellish day and she openly says she would have killed herself had it not been for our two kids. We’ve had scans and blood tests but the NHS have been dreadful (I’ll offset that my saying the NHS were wonderful treating my son for a rare eye condition).Effectively she’s been told the problems are in her head and discharged from everyone. We both know something is majorly wrong. This is by numerous neurologists and various other specialists. Early on I suggested Lyme Disease but this was dismissed because ‘she hadn’t been to the new forest’. I took this at face value. She probably has thirty other symptoms. The NHS seem to think Lyme Disease is rare but it is anything but. In brief it is a tick borne disease which often results on a tell tell ‘bullseye’ rash, but this is not all the time and you may not even know you’ve been bitten as it’s far more common to get bitten by something as small as a poppy seed than some massive thing hanging off of you. Symptoms can also come and go over years.

 

In any case during May I paid privately for her to have a blood test from a German lab. This cost me nearly £500 and can’t confirm a current infection. What it does do is screen for previous exposure to the Lyme bacteria (it cannot be cultured from a blood test), which was positive. With all the symptoms of chronic Lyme disease she has now been diagnosed by a specialist working in Dublin. The NHS refuse to acknowledge the test or to even believing in a chronic version of Lyme disease despite many world leading specialists in infectious diseases doing so. Neither will they treat it beyond several weeks of antibiotics after a positive (laughably unreliable) NHS test. Had it not been for my friend, recently retired on medical grounds from the Police, due to Lyme disease, we would have absolutely no idea. There is no real awareness about this condition and it is strongly suspected as the culprit in countless cases of conditions such as CFS and fibromyalgia.

 

My mate spent £28,000 travelling to Washington DC to get anywhere near right. We are paying hundreds a month to get her specialist treatment and antibiotics from Dublin and she is only just starting to feel marginally better. This is whilst her wage has been slashed in half. I doubt she will ever be right because of the damage this thing does but to those of you who are either ill themselves or have family or friends suffering it’s something to be aware of.

 

Pray neither you or your family get this thing because you may be absolutely fucked. This thing drives itself into bones, joints, muscle and brain tissue. It changes shape, evades testing and treatment and suppresses your immune system so badly your body ceases to produce antibodies to it. The sicker you are the better your blood may look.

[Lee909]

Fuck that's horrific 

Hopefully you can find some way to sort it out

It will be worth taking this out the NHS hands in terms of who you are complaining too, might be worth a trip to your local MP.

Try is this is any good

 

https://www.ombudsman.org.uk/ 

[Captain Turdseye]

Fucking hell, Charles. That sounds horrible. It must be a bit of a relief to have finally found a diagnosis though.

[Tony Moanero]

Hi everyone.

Bollocks.

[Carvalho Diablo]

Gall bladders are for bummers.

[Lee909]

Gall bladders are for bummers.

 

 

Problem with yours?

 

My mums in to have hers out tuesday

SO thats now me,brother and Mum and if my Grandad was't so old they wanted to take his too. And thy say it not a heredity thing

[Carvalho Diablo]

Now I've got this good friend who's just been given a date for surgery for his umbilical hernia. This mate is scared stuff of surgery and the hernia is tiny and gives him no pain whatsoever. However, my friend's employer must give him 2 months off work with full pay to recover.

Bit of a quandary because sat on the kitchen table is the letter from the hospital with all the relevant info about the surgery, dates and times. If my friend decided to bin off the surgery and blag work for those 2 months off "recovering" would there really be any way his employer could suss if?

Just asking for a friend.

 

[Captain Turdseye]

Your mate needs to stop being a tart and get the surgery before it gets worse. You’ll, sorry, he’ll be alright after a few days anyway. 

 

Isn't there someone that can give him a bit of TLC for a couple of days afterwards? It would be quite nice for him to lie on the couch catching up on TV and films whilst being waited on, no?

[lifetime fan]

Your mate needs to be careful his employer doesn’t want him to see occy health before returning to work. 

[lifetime fan]

He also needs to stop being a pussy. 

[KMD7]

33 minutes ago, Carvalho Diablo said:

Now I've got this good friend who's just been given a date for surgery for his umbilical hernia. This mate is scared stuff of surgery and the hernia is tiny and gives him no pain whatsoever. However, my friend's employer must give him 2 months off work with full pay to recover.

Bit of a quandary because sat on the kitchen table is the letter from the hospital with all the relevant info about the surgery, dates and times. If my friend decided to bin off the surgery and blag work for those 2 months off "recovering" would there really be any way his employer could suss if?

Just asking for a friend.

 

I put mine off for years mate but eventuallyIt became too painful in the end and had to go get it done.  Tell your friend to do it.  Not sure how he can blag it off though as I'm sure he'd have to produce a sick cert for work?