Dang! One of my valves is leaking.

[Swoop]

One has to presume that the manufacturer has been consulted over this issue? Shoddy production or quality control needs to be investigated.

[vifferman]

One has to presume that the manufacturer has been consulted over this issue? Shoddy production or quality control needs to be investigated.

Yeah, I'm a bit pissed off about this. The defect's been there since new, apparently, and sonly hows up after we've booked a trip to Yurp.
Crapola.

[chester]

must have been built on a friday then, you should have checked before putting high milage on.

[Renegade]

get the surgery mate, im sure a heart replacement will be way to painful as opposed to a minor relatively minor valve job

[vifferman]

get the surgery mate, im sure a heart replacement will be way to painful as opposed to a minor relatively minor valve job

That's easy for you to say - you're not the one being opened up and having your heart cut open....
In fact, there's not really any choice - if I don't get it done, then in a year or so's time, I'll be ferkt.
It's just the thought of the operation, 3 - 4 months recovery time, and having my licence confiscated for that time that freaks me out too. It's kinda turned my world upside down.

But I'm actually really lucky - if it wasn't for what turned out to be bogus symptoms that spurred me to get my GP to check my heart out, I wouldn't have known there was anything wrong until it may have been too late to fix. I'm fine at the moment, but with time, my heart will get more enlarged and weaker, and also pretty much unrepairable.

[Ocean1]

Jeez that's a bit sucky dude.

Still, almost worth it to laze around for a couple of months being spoon fed and ogling the local mechanics.

Chin up eh?

[vifferman]

Thanks, Mark.
I think I've gone through all the appropriate phases of reaction to this, and got stuck on "really pissed off". It's actually rather energising, as I'm usually fairly inert.

Now I just want to get it out of the way. It's kinda made me quite uninterested in our planned trip to Yurp next month, so we may yet end up canning that, and using the money for private treatment and the leave for my recuperation. In any case, if Iceland doesn't stop blowing up soon, the trip may not be able to take place. Unless we swim or summat....

[Crisis management]

Right, now I have finally been able to decipher this...and we complain about the txt generation!
Look after yourself! Most medical stuff is fixable today so once you have got your head around it you will find the process is not as frightening as it feels right now, if you choose to take Ix up on his offer I'm pretty handy with a chain saw so could do the opening up bit.

More seriously, if there's anything any of us can do to help, sing out.

[vifferman]

More seriously, if there's anything any of us can do to help, sing out.

Thanks very much!
Please don't be offended if I pass on the chainsaw bit. I know chicks dig scars, but I suspect most of them draw the line somewhere. (I'd also like to limit the recovery time if I can - 8 weeks sounds like WAY too much as it is... Only so many bike magazines and videos one can look at....
Speaking of which, I don't yet have any, so I'd better start organising summat....