Druidic Dabblings and General Twaddle !!

[V8Druid]

phone call first thing ...
" Hi, it's Dawn, Mr Shetty's secretary, we have a cancellation for 15.50 today, can you come and see Mr Shetty today? "
He's the surgeon fella who's been following up on last year's 'episode' and who discharged me earlier this year ..
Probably wants to tell me - " I told you so "
he's gonna wanna take me gall bladder out
didn't expect to be facing this quandary again so soon

 

[V8Druid]

Well Mr Shetty was in fine form this afternoon ...
looked at me and said he'd booked me in for 6 weeks time to give me a chance to recover - what was I doing there?? ...
told him I reckoned he'd had me in quick so's he could tell me " I told you so " made him laugh
Said Dawn had rung me this morning and booked me in a cancellation slot
Couldn't believe how well i'd recovered from an attack on Sunday and been discharged Wed.s afternoon
Asked him for some Omeprazol to combat the acid gut and slight reflux I'm still getting, which he was happy to oblige with and said he'd see me in 4-6 weeks after I'd had a chance at a full recovery to decide what to do next.
He'd had a conversation with Dr Randsford, who'd done the two failed ERCPs last October. He'd said he'd have another go - if pushed - but didn't hold up a lot of hope after last years efforts.
so looks like that's not gonna be an option they'll be pursuing
long conflab about the pros and cons of gall bladder removal, after effects and life without one and hoped I'd maybe go for it with some time to consider it all
confirmed yon stone is still where it was last year - might've jiggled and caused the Pancreatitis Sunday, or could've been a.n.other escaping and getting trapped by that one ????
If I opt to have it out, they'd stand a good chance of getting that one at the same time .... but no guarantees of not having Pancreatitis ever again
he's such a nice guy - tells it straight - got 4 - 6 weeks to mull it over - AGAIN!! -
odds're getting shorter

 

[Vinpetrol]

Well Mr Shetty was in fine form this afternoon ...
looked at me and said he'd booked me in for 6 weeks time to give me a chance to recover - what was I doing there?? ...
told him I reckoned he'd had me in quick so's he could tell me " I told you so " made him laugh
Said Dawn had rung me this morning and booked me in a cancellation slot
Couldn't believe how well i'd recovered from an attack on Sunday and been discharged Wed.s afternoon
Asked him for some Omeprazol to combat the acid gut and slight reflux I'm still getting, which he was happy to oblige with and said he'd see me in 4-6 weeks after I'd had a chance at a full recovery to decide what to do next.
He'd had a conversation with Dr Randsford, who'd done the two failed ERCPs last October. He'd said he'd have another go - if pushed - but didn't hold up a lot of hope after last years efforts.
so looks like that's not gonna be an option they'll be pursuing
long conflab about the pros and cons of gall bladder removal, after effects and life without one and hoped I'd maybe go for it with some time to consider it all
confirmed yon stone is still where it was last year - might've jiggled and caused the Pancreatitis Sunday, or could've been a.n.other escaping and getting trapped by that one ????
If I opt to have it out, they'd stand a good chance of getting that one at the same time .... but no guarantees of not having Pancreatitis ever again
he's such a nice guy - tells it straight - got 4 - 6 weeks to mull it over - AGAIN!! -
odds're getting shorter

Given your health condition , what’s the down side of having it removed ? Could it set you back at all ?
I’m asking as I had mine out and immediately resolved all the trapped stone issues and hasn’t been a problem . Only change was I now shite morning and evening instead of just the evening and I think that’s because without the gall bladder you secrete all the time rather than when you eat .

 

[V8Druid]

Given your health condition , what’s the down side of having it removed ? Could it set you back at all ?
I’m asking as I had mine out and immediately resolved all the trapped stone issues and hasn’t been a problem . Only change was I now shite morning and evening instead of just the evening and I think that’s because without the gall bladder you secrete all the time rather than when you eat .

this is the dilemma Vin.
yer gall bladder controls the flow of bile to your gut after you've eaten ... without it you have a constant 'weep' instead of when it's needed.
worst case is almost constant diarrhoea but controllable (to a degree) with drugs - otherwise your digestive system slows down and your diet has/needs to be monitored carefully.
Gaucher's disease is a 'contributor' to/has an effect on, the production of gall stones and no one can say what the effect of not having the gall bladder in place will have?
and they can't put it back

 

[Vinpetrol]

this is the dilemma Vin.
yer gall bladder controls the flow of bile to your gut after you've eaten ... without it you have a constant 'weep' instead of when it's needed.
worst case is almost constant diarrhoea but controllable (to a degree) with drugs - otherwise your digestive system slows down and your diet has/needs to be monitored carefully.
Gaucher's disease is a 'contributor' to/has an effect on, the production of gall stones and no one can say what the effect of not having the gall bladder in place will have?
and they can't put it back

So you’d be a bit of an experiment for them .
How frequent are you getting ill with the stones and how bearable is it ?
My diet hasn’t changed . I had yearly doc check yesterday and they checked my weight I’m I’m still the same size fat bastard I was when I got it done and that’s 3 years ago now so my metabolism hasn’t shifted .

 

[bobthebuilder]

The docs do not want any inflammation of infection at the time of removal of gaul bladder ,operating when inflamed or infected leads to greater risk for the patient

 

[V8Druid]

So you’d be a bit of an experiment for them .
How frequent are you getting ill with the stones and how bearable is it ?
My diet hasn’t changed . I had yearly doc check yesterday and they checked my weight I’m I’m still the same size fat bastard I was when I got it done and that’s 3 years ago now so my metabolism hasn’t shifted .

9 years between 1st and second incidence Vin ... 6 between 2nd and 3rd last July and now was 14 months after #3 .... last July's left a stone in my pancreatic duct that they tried to remove with two ERCP procedures ( Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography) unsuccessfully as the duct was still too inflamed after three months.
as for the pain level - shoot me now - I have a good pain threshold, but !!!! - it goes on for hours, many hours ... without I.V. morphine it is unreal -- had 5 hrs of it Sunday night - throwing up for 2-3 of them - I should've called Pam's daughter at the onset to take me to hospital but reluctant at half one/two in the morning
couple of mates have since said WTF didn't you call me .. but as above .. bit late to go ringing folks .. they would've turned out for me as I would and have for them, but just wasn't thinking straight

and yeh -- think I would be " a bit of an experiment " ..
I'm a rare animal
when diagnosed I was #15 in Wales, 200 in the UK and one of only 5,000 in the world with the disease, out of 7+ billion ppl.

 

[V8Druid]

The docs do not want any inflammation of infection at the time of removal of gaul bladder ,operating when inflamed or infected leads to greater risk for the patient

bang on ... 's why they waited 3 months last year to try the ERCP which carries enough risks of its own, let alone a second one a couple of weeks later
it's the reason Dr Ransford is reluctant to even think about a third try ... it'd have to wait some time - and still high risk / low chances of success .... he's their top guy and doesn't often do the procedure, due to the risk level

 

[bobthebuilder]

bang on ... 's why they waited 3 months last year to try the ERCP which carries enough risks of its own, let alone a second one a couple of weeks later
it's the reason Dr Ransford is reluctant to even think about a third try ... it'd have to wait some time - and still high risk / low chances of success .... he's their top guy and doesn't often do the procedure, due to the risk level

We are in the same boat with the boy ,
We seem to get real close to op day and boom off it goes again
The boy is quite down about it

 

[V8Druid]

We are in the same boat with the boy ,
We seem to get real close to op day and boom off it goes again
The boy is quite down about it

I'll bet he is .... very frustrating ..
I did not expect a.n.other 'session' quite so soon
had just about forgotten worrying about having another bout

 

[V8Druid]

rang the GPs yesterday, first thing - almost out of Tramadol - could i have a repeat please - last time was last July, after last year's 'episode' - made sure I had enough to cope as signed myself out last year.
" er .. you'll have to come in and see a GP, before we can oblige " FFS!! ..
been prescribing these for 14 years and know I only take them when really needed ..
last script has lasted me a year

went in there yesterday afternoon ... only a locum available
told him the score, took my 'med. file' with me (in case) and what i needed

Got home and opened the bag .... ****in' slow release capsules - alright if you're on 'em daily, for chronic pain
Mine is always acute and need to work instantly/rapidly
Back there this morning to see pharmacist ...
can't change them without a GP authority ..
locum took it upon himself to 'vary' the prescription (Dr. aljabalawalla?/?)!!!!
they'll run it by my own GP this afters
got to go back Thursday FFS

 

[V8Druid]

had some sad news last night .... old teacher and later colleague and friend passed away - only a couple of years older then me - rare and incurable cancer -very quick apparently. not long since I last bumped into him in town and looked very well

my last year in school, I did 2 A levels, Biology and Design plus an extra Human Biology O level, so had a lot of time in the workshops.
George and I got on very well.
the dept. had one chap who was a JP/Magistrate and spent quite a bit of 'time out' in that role.
I was often 'asked' to cover his classes and became a bit of an 'honorary' teacher, which is how I came to go into the profession, when I left and went to Redland Teacher training college in Bristol.
Finished there and had a couple of interviews for posts locally both of which I turned down after seeing the state of the schools - was about to go back into engineering, which i'd done for a year between leaving school and going to Redland, to put some cash together, to be able to run my car, etc. - the grant as utter sh1t then.
got a knock on the door one evening and it was the old head of design, offering me the JP's job - he was 'out sick' for a year and I'd be on permanent supply which meant double money (but no holiday pay - which was fine), with a 'preferential app.' for the job next year. Was virtually begging me to take it.

I'd been the only one in my year to go into teaching, a bit of a feather in the dept's cap, and really wanted me to take the job, which I did .. down side was as the JP was hardly ever in school, I ended up with his timetable of all the 'untameables' (DCT was always the 'dumping ground' ) - high light of my week was two first year groups on a Monday morning .....
Developed an understanding with most of the little wasters - I would take no sh1t and would happily reciprocate for any I got ..... and it wasn't a bad year ...

H.O.D. and George were great, very welcoming and treated me as an equal -- got on fine with the others in the dept. too, but a lot of the other staff were a tad off-ish, with me returning 'on their side of the fence', even though i'd gotten on fine with most of them as a pupil.
after 4 years 'away' there weren't many kids who actually remembered me as a pupil and I got on fine with most of the kids, being that much younger than the majority of the staff .. turning up for work on my XS500 Yammy regularly also helped my 'cred' too

However, I digress ...
didn't bother to apply for my post after the year was up ...
std salary in 1980 was shite, compared to what i could earn elsewhere and took a job in a big-ish engineering outfit welding / fabbing and some occasional stand in work in their machine shop, operating their two cranes, as needed and the really interesting job of wandering round the country fitting Tiretrac chains on loading shovels in quarries ... that was a very interesting year

..... so didn't see a great deal of George for some time, but whenever we bumped into each other, he was always pleased to see me and have a good yap.

when i started working for myself he'd pop in occasionally for a catch up and a cuppa. He was a genuinely nice guy

sadly George had been spending a lot of his time with his daughter and grand daughter, dealing with his SIL's terminal illness, the last couple of years, who passed away end of last year ...
's his g/daughter's 11th birthday soon and the anniversary of his SIL's passing shortly too, so his wife is delaying George's funeral for a week or three ...
too much grief in too short a space ....
Life's a real bitch at times
RIP George

 

[6feetdown]

had some sad news last night .... old teacher and later colleague and friend passed away - only a couple of years older then me - rare and incurable cancer -very quick apparently. not long since I last bumped into him in town and looked very well

my last year in school, I did 2 A levels, Biology and Design plus an extra Human Biology O level, so had a lot of time in the workshops.
George and I got on very well.
the dept. had one chap who was a JP/Magistrate and spent quite a bit of 'time out' in that role.
I was often 'asked' to cover his classes and became a bit of an 'honorary' teacher, which is how I came to go into the profession, when I left and went to Redland Teacher training college in Bristol.
Finished there and had a couple of interviews for posts locally both of which I turned down after seeing the state of the schools - was about to go back into engineering, which i'd done for a year between leaving school and going to Redland, to put some cash together, to be able to run my car, etc. - the grant as utter sh1t then.
got a knock on the door one evening and it was the old head of design, offering me the JP's job - he was 'out sick' for a year and I'd be on permanent supply which meant double money (but no holiday pay - which was fine), with a 'preferential app.' for the job next year. Was virtually begging me to take it.

I'd been the only one in my year to go into teaching, a bit of a feather in the dept's cap, and really wanted me to take the job, which I did .. down side was as the JP was hardly ever in school, I ended up with his timetable of all the 'untameables' (DCT was always the 'dumping ground' ) - high light of my week was two first year groups on a Monday morning .....
Developed an understanding with most of the little wasters - I would take no sh1t and would happily reciprocate for any I got ..... and it wasn't a bad year ...

H.O.D. and George were great, very welcoming and treated me as an equal -- got on fine with the others in the dept. too, but a lot of the other staff were a tad off-ish, with me returning 'on their side of the fence', even though i'd gotten on fine with most of them as a pupil.
after 4 years 'away' there weren't many kids who actually remembered me as a pupil and I got on fine with most of the kids, being that much younger than the majority of the staff .. turning up for work on my XS500 Yammy regularly also helped my 'cred' too

However, I digress ...
didn't bother to apply for my post after the year was up ...
std salary in 1980 was shite, compared to what i could earn elsewhere and took a job in a big-ish engineering outfit welding / fabbing and some occasional stand in work in their machine shop, operating their two cranes, as needed and the really interesting job of wandering round the country fitting Tiretrac chains on loading shovels in quarries ... that was a very interesting year

..... so didn't see a great deal of George for some time, but whenever we bumped into each other, he was always pleased to see me and have a good yap.

when i started working for myself he'd pop in occasionally for a catch up and a cuppa. He was a genuinely nice guy

sadly George had been spending a lot of his time with his daughter and grand daughter, dealing with his SIL's terminal illness, the last couple of years, who passed away end of last year ...
's his g/daughter's 11th birthday soon and the anniversary of his SIL's passing shortly too, so his wife is delaying George's funeral for a week or three ...
too much grief in too short a space ....
Life's a real bitch at times
RIP George

RIP

 

[Lancs Lad]

had some sad news last night .... old teacher and later colleague and friend passed away - only a couple of years older then me - rare and incurable cancer -very quick apparently. not long since I last bumped into him in town and looked very well

my last year in school, I did 2 A levels, Biology and Design plus an extra Human Biology O level, so had a lot of time in the workshops.
George and I got on very well.
the dept. had one chap who was a JP/Magistrate and spent quite a bit of 'time out' in that role.
I was often 'asked' to cover his classes and became a bit of an 'honorary' teacher, which is how I came to go into the profession, when I left and went to Redland Teacher training college in Bristol.
Finished there and had a couple of interviews for posts locally both of which I turned down after seeing the state of the schools - was about to go back into engineering, which i'd done for a year between leaving school and going to Redland, to put some cash together, to be able to run my car, etc. - the grant as utter sh1t then.
got a knock on the door one evening and it was the old head of design, offering me the JP's job - he was 'out sick' for a year and I'd be on permanent supply which meant double money (but no holiday pay - which was fine), with a 'preferential app.' for the job next year. Was virtually begging me to take it.

I'd been the only one in my year to go into teaching, a bit of a feather in the dept's cap, and really wanted me to take the job, which I did .. down side was as the JP was hardly ever in school, I ended up with his timetable of all the 'untameables' (DCT was always the 'dumping ground' ) - high light of my week was two first year groups on a Monday morning .....
Developed an understanding with most of the little wasters - I would take no sh1t and would happily reciprocate for any I got ..... and it wasn't a bad year ...

H.O.D. and George were great, very welcoming and treated me as an equal -- got on fine with the others in the dept. too, but a lot of the other staff were a tad off-ish, with me returning 'on their side of the fence', even though i'd gotten on fine with most of them as a pupil.
after 4 years 'away' there weren't many kids who actually remembered me as a pupil and I got on fine with most of the kids, being that much younger than the majority of the staff .. turning up for work on my XS500 Yammy regularly also helped my 'cred' too

However, I digress ...
didn't bother to apply for my post after the year was up ...
std salary in 1980 was shite, compared to what i could earn elsewhere and took a job in a big-ish engineering outfit welding / fabbing and some occasional stand in work in their machine shop, operating their two cranes, as needed and the really interesting job of wandering round the country fitting Tiretrac chains on loading shovels in quarries ... that was a very interesting year

..... so didn't see a great deal of George for some time, but whenever we bumped into each other, he was always pleased to see me and have a good yap.

when i started working for myself he'd pop in occasionally for a catch up and a cuppa. He was a genuinely nice guy

sadly George had been spending a lot of his time with his daughter and grand daughter, dealing with his SIL's terminal illness, the last couple of years, who passed away end of last year ...
's his g/daughter's 11th birthday soon and the anniversary of his SIL's passing shortly too, so his wife is delaying George's funeral for a week or three ...
too much grief in too short a space ....
Life's a real bitch at times
RIP George

We can send a rocket to mars and stop folk becoming fat and yet the Big C is killing folk left right and centre lost far to many recently to even discuss it