I've been very slack at at writing lately but here is a delayed update. The Arse doctor had ordered a chest and abdomen CT scan. Which has now been done but as usual there was great deal of trouble finding a suitable vein to put a line into.
As an aside to this the Heart man had also ordered a CT scan when I was last in hospital. This was a special one called a 64 bit CT scan. There was only two places that could be done one was at the Royal Surrey in Guildford and the other at a private clinic in Weybridge. It was booked at Guildford.
It was due on a Monday morning and late on Friday I was rung to say that the specialist had gone sick and it could not go ahead, a new appointment would be booked. After a week and a half I had not heard from them and so chased the Heart man's secretary. It took her over a week and still did could not find out what was going on from the CT dept. but later managed to get an answer from a different contact there. Result was they were not doing any scans at that moment.
In the end, an appointment was booked at the Weybridge clinic. This happened about three weeks ago, the doctor even found a vein that worked, on top of my foot. It worked so well that lots of blood ended up on the floor after it had gone in and they were trying to put the plug in and also when they removed it after the job had been done.
I had a follow up Heart appointment last Wednesday. Unfortunately the scan results had not reached him. All he could do was to apologise and say that he did notr kn ow the answer to my breathlessness.
An hour before that appointment I had made one to see the Stoma Nurse as I had a sore around the stoma that had developed after a long drive to Germany a two weeks before. I did say to her that I had driven 1000 miles just to make this appointment. This was true as I had just driven down to Italy and back.
There was no real solution to the sore but did make the bag cutout slightly larger. She gave me a different sort of paste to help with sealing with does go set as hard and does not sting. I was also to stop using the silver nitrate to stop the bleeding.
The sore has improved a bit but not as fast as I was expecting. I am still getting leaks around it as the sore which is part of the problem because as it is open it produces liquid which stops the sealing. A bit of a losing battle until it heals completely.
