Hospital update

Ed Bruce theodrake.mailscanner at gmail.com
Tue Feb 10 16:16:43 GMT 2009


Scott Silva wrote:
> on 2-9-2009 2:23 PM Glenn Steen spake the following:
>   
>> 2009/2/9 Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk>:
>>     
>>> Folks,
>>>
>>> To keep you updated with the latest...
>>>
>>> Last Thursday I had an endoscopy done by the boss of the Hepatology Dept at
>>> our hospital, she wanted to make sure she saw the state for herself rather
>>> than reading someone else's report, which was kind of her.
>>>
>>> The endoscopy showed that there is probably sufficient blood-flow and low
>>> enough pressure that I am unlikely to bleed severely in the near future, and
>>> so the decision has been taken to take me off the liver transplant list. In
>>> 6 months time, she will do another endoscopy and review the situation again.
>>> But, to be honest, it is unlikely I will be put back on the list again.
>>>
>>> This is good, in that I don't need a very major operation, but it also means
>>> that a bunch of other things won't get fixed at the same time. So it's good,
>>> but not *all* good.
>>>
>>> So I have unpacked my hospital bag. 17 months preparing myself for it, and
>>> just 10 minutes to unpack my bag and put it all away again. Ho hum.
>>>
>>> Many thanks for all your kind messages over the past months wishing me luck
>>> with the transplant, they really did help me. Time to move on, I guess.
>>>
>>> Cheers.
>>>
>>> Jules
>>>
>>>       
>> Well... Mostly good, I guess:/.
>> I hope you land on this being good, in the end... While pondering,
>> share a virtual toast (red, of course), with a slightly decrepit
>> Swede;-).
>> All the best!
>>
>> Cheers
>>     
> I'll drink to that!
>
>
>
>   
I'll drink to your drink to that!! (Love Trader Joe's, inexpensive 
decent wine, at least to my untrained palate)
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