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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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JFR is heading to hospital on Tuesday for a colonoscopy. Normally this is simply an unpleasant procedure with a doctor shoving a periscope up your arse and looking for enemy shipping.
The thing is, those of us who have met him know that he is not a well man. and he and his doctors are concerned about the procedure, which they considered very carefully before allowing.
When I say "nervous" he is scared shitless.
While this is a great advantage for the periscope part he is concerned that stuff may "go wrong" and that he may not survive the normally simple procedure. Obviously that is something he will know little about, but he has much unfinished business here, not least of which is welcoming his next grandchild in May or June.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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May I be the first to send JFR good wishes for the procedure.
But I don't think it is really a big deal. If it were me I might even enjoy it. I did when my doctor examined me for a swollen prostate. (I didn't tell him!)
Love,
Anthony
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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
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It is the anaesthesia and strain on his heart that is the problem. His cardiologist usually forbids ANY procedures.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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I pray for a good outcome and may the doctors be keeping a vigilant eye on your vitals.
If you stand for Freedom, but you wont stand for war, then you dont stand for anything worth fighting for.
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Hugs to you, JFR. You are in my prayers. A good Christmas gift for all of us would be to keep you among us.
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Dear JFR,
you will be in my thoughts and prayers.
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Good luck, JFR. I'll be thinking of you especially as I've been there before - not literally, you understand, and I've got a routine one promised for summer 2010. When Timmy said that you were "scared shitless", no. That's the effect of the laxative you have to take beforehand.
Hugs
Nigel
[edited to preserve JFR's online anonymity]
[Updated on: Sun, 21 December 2008 15:53] by Moderator
I dream of boys with big bulges in their trousers,
Never of girls with big bulges in their blouses.
…and look forward to meeting you in Cóito.
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I have recently had similar problems. That of needing a major operation when I already had a heart condition. I took the advice offered and accepted the need for the procedures and that in their view I was fit enough to get through it all.
No it's not nice, its uncomfortable, my camera was put up the rather smaller aperture into the bladder. All was well... at least insofar as I now know what I have not got and what actually is the problem. Now controlled entirely successfully with one drug.
The previous spinal surgery last July was another matter and yes I was also pretty scared there were unwelcome possibilities that could well have occurred. They did not.
Good luck and my very best wishes go with you. Put your trust in those professionals and we'll chat again soon and I am sure smile when recollecting it all.
Paul J.
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Last Wendesday I had an absolutely horrible scare. My Potassium level got to 8.6. Needlesss to say they had to get an ambulance. I was still conscious and saw them put the shock paddles beside me. the only thing I could think was please let me be unconscious when you use them. My heart rate slowed to about 28 beats and was falling. the paramedics and the emergency room people kept me going till they could counter the Potassium and get my heart rate back up. They can do miraculous stuff now.
If you stand for Freedom, but you wont stand for war, then you dont stand for anything worth fighting for.
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Good luck JFR. Though I've not met you, I have read your posts.
I will also pass on good wishes from Jeffsfortboard, because I'll ask them to keep you in their thoughts as well.
Mike
(CW)
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Thanks Mike.G for saying something on Jeffsfort.
Any of us that have had a medical confilict with this procedure interfering with that know what you must be going through. I will be praying your Doctors have the knowlege and skills needed for this to be something that you sail through with flying colors.
Str8mayb
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>They can do miraculous stuff now.
Yes, Roger, they'd better do!
You know you are always in my thougths and prayers, too!
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timmy
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Has no life at all |
Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
Messages: 13796
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JFR is home. The pre-procedure scared feeling was real. The outcome was never in doubt.
No enemy ships were sighted, so none were torpedoed
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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Excellent news.
"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. ... Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night devoid of stars." Martin Luther King
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Congratulations, JFR. Down periscope.
Hugs
Nigel
[Updated on: Wed, 24 December 2008 04:10] by Moderator
I dream of boys with big bulges in their trousers,
Never of girls with big bulges in their blouses.
…and look forward to meeting you in Cóito.
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That's great news JFR. Now perhaps you can relax a bit and enjoy Christmas?
Have a great one! 
Mike
(CW)
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