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Muttley Snickers:
After suffering for a long period of time with chronic fatigue issues and literally at the end of my tether I was recently diagnosed as having heart disease and likely a number of heart attacks along the way, none of which gave the regular symptoms of angina or associated chest pain which was a bit of a mystery for the cardiologists, anyway on Monday just gone they ran me through this big arse Philips Gamma Imaging Machine the results of which will be provided in a meeting with the head of cardiology scheduled for tomorrow morning.

A serious machine operated by some wonderful staff and I got a look from the inside three successive times in fact so beat that.   :P :)

tautech:
Thanks for the update Muttley, thinking of you buddy, hope it all comes out the best for you.
Bugger of a place to be in at anytime but if you're crook that's where you need to be to get well again.

Fraser:
Sorry to hear this Muttley. Hope they get the diagnosis sorted and an effective treatment plan in place for it.

On the topic of hospital equipment...... I have spent my fair share of time in hospital and the staff are always highly amused that I am so interested in looking at the equipment surrounding me and wanting to watch it 'in action'.

Some people hate the MRI machine because it is quite enclosed and 'booms' when operating....... I love it ...... listening to the different frequencies as it carries out the scans. I think I must be a bit odd :) At my last MRI, just as the scan was about to start, I noticed a tube was disconnected from the acoustic communications interface. The nurses were surprised I had noticed it but fortunate that I did as that was the control room communication line to me to tell me to stop breathing during the scan.

I had an endoscope inside me once and, though sedated, I still managed to ask the doctor for a printed picture of the investigation site :). He kindly obliged and even described what the picture was showing. The nurses were laughing as most patients are more concerned that there is something wriggling around inside them and the last thing they want to do is see what the endoscope is seeing :)

Fraser

Muttley Snickers:
Thanks very much tautech  :), I've been so flat out  :D each day running back and forth between different hospitals, the silly GP  :palm:  various blood tests, cardiac rehabilitation programs and associated specialists that I haven't been able to spend any time on the computer at all but hope to return soon with a whole new perspective.   ::)  :palm:

I'm in a better place now than I was 10 weeks ago as you well know and with exercise  :box:, diet  :popcorn:, mental state  :-// and a few other  :-BROKE things all being seriously addressed and with the caring assistance of some wonderful people I'm really looking forward to this second chance    :-+. I gave my word early in the peace that the effort they the doctors and nursing staff went to whilst I was in trouble won't go wasted and I will now make every possible effort to stick around, you buggers will just have to suffer a bit longer.   :P

Gyro:
Likewise Muttley, best wishes. The main thing is that you have a diagnosis, you're bound to be better under treatment and monitoring that you were, wondering around, ticking!


--- Quote from: Fraser on May 09, 2017, 11:00:00 am ---Some people hate the MRI machine because it is quite enclosed and 'booms' when operating....... I love it ...... listening to the different frequencies as it carries out the scans. I think I must be a bit odd :)

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No you're not alone, me too! :) There's something quite 'cosetting' about being enclosed in a nice warm tube, listening to all the scan patterns, some of them are quite hypnotic (although there's one particularly deep one on mine that shakes the table). The only problem I have is the pressure of the sensor coil on the tip of my nose (big nose!), but once you get used to looking through the plastic mirror rather than going cross-eyed it's fine. They've just upped their noise protection policy at my hospital - now you get ear plugs aswell as the piped headphones.

I always buy a copy of the scans on CD, nice to see the pretty pictures ahead of the consultant appointments and the individual scans show the TR, TE etc. parameters that you can relate with the sound effects.


P.S. You want to try cystoscopy. Once you get past the 'cross legs and clench' urge as the three eyed snake (RGB) approaches your tender parts you get to see some very pretty high res pictures without being hampered by the sedation. ;D. Having had both, I much prefer the cystoscopies!

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