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Originally Posted by Headbanger

Huzzah....You're alive.

Well...yeah, there is that.
But I'm almost (but not quite) longing for the excitement of atrial fibrillation, constant blood tests and injections, and all that sort of thing. No, not really, but at least there was little time to get bored, and nurses and other patients to talk to. The MutantTroglodyteSpawn don't usually arise during daylight hours, if they can help it...

Huzzah....You're alive.

hey, going to have a new knee soon , not looking forward to this but have dec ided to give my all to recover from this and get my arse back on the bike , chin up and get into it mate !!

That sounds pretty major vifferman. I kinda had the impression you were expecting more of a recovery by now. Things still sound a little bad.

Maybe try some things to stimulate your mind. Cross words, reading, porn, board games, etc. Might take your mind off the recovery.

Originally Posted by Crisis management

Other than that, I thought recovery from surgery was supposed to be lying down eating chocolates while being attended to by scantily clad females? Is the Vifferbabe not providing these services?

There's chocolate, but like most things, it tastes BAD. In my mouth's mixed-up world, sweet=sour, salty= VERY salty, sour=metallic, and anything with a combination of flavours does my head in. Bland food is OK (apart from making me want to spit it out) as it just tastes slightly metallic. I can sometimes get the real tastes of things, then after 3 seconds, TasteInsanity kicks in. Oh - and my sense of smell is hypersensitive: tissues smell really woody, the smell of some food is overpowering.
I'm checking out each day what things taste like. I've tried low-alcohol beer, and that was just slightly metallic, but wine just about blew me away; I could taste the alcohol REALLY strongly, and the complex flavours were overpowering. Luckily, I'm not supposed to drink alcohol.

Relax, dude, plenty of time to find a new job later.

One involving stuff you like doing. With people you like.

In the meantime make the most of your time off eh?

Good to see you're still with us Viffer, I can sympathise (in my own little way) with the recovery time, since I turned 50 every ailment seems to take forever to get over......I'm not sure I would cope as well as you are with having some plumbers apprentice poking around in my chest.

If you're desperate for reading material I have a few motorcycling books that may be interesting, flick me a PM.

Other than that, I thought recovery from surgery was supposed to be lying down eating chocolates while being attended to by scantily clad females? Is the Vifferbabe not providing these services?

chin up mate...on a much much lesser scale i am recovering from a ruptured achilles,progress seems painfully slow(its not painfull at all actually) but all the people involved say i am making good progress!

Originally Posted by Mom

North Shore Hospital is a bit of a horror story really.

According to my cardiologist, it's much better'n it was a year or so ago. However, according to one of the senior nurses, "it's in crisis mode", with more patients than beds, and not enough resources. When I was there, there were patients in the corridors in some wards, and one of the guys I shared a room with had to spend his last night in the TV lounge to make room for an incoming patient.

North Shore Hospital is a bit of a horror story really. I spent 8 days in that short stay place, the last night in the outpatients clinic room at the very end of the corridor. The best bit about there was creeping my way to the toilet, dressed in one of them sexy gown arrangements, looking and feeling utter crap, and in a very unwell state was hearing "Hello Anne" from a Warkworth business man who was attending the outpatients clinic at the end of the corridor. Sharing the bathrooms with an outpatients clinic is beyond the pale really.

Love that feeling of desert mouth after surgery,same here after 8hours wanted to drink a bloody 200gallon trough full,but only small sips for first couple of hours in ICU.Then the nausia kicks in,anti- nausia medicine seemed to make it bearable,but after feeling like shite for 12 hours,it had to happen,but nurses were excellent,and funnily enough the male nurses were great.

makes for a good read

Good to read your safely through the op and starting the process of recovery.
Those nightmares are fairly real at the time, wait until you have the one that "you GIVE away your bike/s and take up scrap-booking at night-school!!" LoL

My father in law went in for a hip op and came out with no limp and a quadruple bypass, anyway it took longer to stop hugging a pillow when he coughed than get over the dreams and effects of those drugs.

This wont hurt a bit! OH boy, I know that one well.

Good that you have a sense of humour about it all, and that you remember what they told you about the op.
Remember, no pain no gain (Tui), keep taking the painkillers and hugging your new best friend

Welcome home. I am sure your recovery will be much quicker now you are at home. PM me your addy, I am heading to the smoke tomorrow for a job interview, I can drop some magazines into your letter box on my way back if you would like.

I am very glad to read he is on the mend, I hope he gets home today you always feel much better at home.

Originally Posted by vifferman

Hi, Vifferman (wife) here.
He came through the op okay came home on Wed and back to Northshore Hospital by ambo on Thursday morning. Now stable and in ward 3, hope to have him home midway through next week. Im sure Ian would love to read and older bike mags you have finished with.

Tell the old prick he's not fooling anyone with the possum bit, he still owes me drinks.

Originally Posted by vifferman

Hi, Vifferman (wife) here.
He came through the op okay came home on Wed and back to Northshore Hospital by ambo on Thursday morning. Now stable and in ward 3, hope to have him home midway through next week. Im sure Ian would love to read and older bike mags you have finished with.

That's great news to hear! I think a few of us were starting to get worried after the blog had gone quiet for so long ...

Hi, Vifferman (wife) here.
He came through the op okay came home on Wed and back to Northshore Hospital by ambo on Thursday morning. Now stable and in ward 3, hope to have him home midway through next week. Im sure Ian would love to read and older bike mags you have finished with.