And so it has been done.
This year has been one of the strangest for me.
It started badly in that the unstable industry that I work in and was starting to make a little headway in was drying up and what jobs were there I couldn't get on.
Then it got interesting in June when I was told that I had a problem with my heart.
It was literally broken and it would need an operation to fix it. Iwould need aortic root and valve replacement. I spent the next five to six months seeing various doctors waiting for my surgical consult and then date for surgery. I received a date for sugrery which was then cancelled one week prior due tue to illness on my surgeons part.
Finally last week I had my operation and am now in possession of a mechanical St. Jude Aortic Valve.
So, yes I tick. I sound like kinitting needles, its not loud enough to be heard under normal circumstances perhaps in the quiet of night. It is rather disconcerting.
(So I won't be becoming a Ninja anymore!)
I have an 11 inch or 28 cm long vertical scar down the centre of my chest and will have to take anti-coagulants for the rest of my life.
No, it is not a pacemaker.
It should take three months to make a full recovery.
I was going to try and write a more colourful post to explain my wherabouts in the last ten days but in the end came up with this.
So it now a case of taking things easy and buliding my strength up for 2006.
It is one chapter that is hopefully finished now.
So Merry Christmas to all...
It started badly in that the unstable industry that I work in and was starting to make a little headway in was drying up and what jobs were there I couldn't get on.
Then it got interesting in June when I was told that I had a problem with my heart.
It was literally broken and it would need an operation to fix it. Iwould need aortic root and valve replacement. I spent the next five to six months seeing various doctors waiting for my surgical consult and then date for surgery. I received a date for sugrery which was then cancelled one week prior due tue to illness on my surgeons part.
Finally last week I had my operation and am now in possession of a mechanical St. Jude Aortic Valve.
So, yes I tick. I sound like kinitting needles, its not loud enough to be heard under normal circumstances perhaps in the quiet of night. It is rather disconcerting.
(So I won't be becoming a Ninja anymore!)
I have an 11 inch or 28 cm long vertical scar down the centre of my chest and will have to take anti-coagulants for the rest of my life.
No, it is not a pacemaker.
It should take three months to make a full recovery.
I was going to try and write a more colourful post to explain my wherabouts in the last ten days but in the end came up with this.
So it now a case of taking things easy and buliding my strength up for 2006.
It is one chapter that is hopefully finished now.
So Merry Christmas to all...
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10 Comments:
That's a really rough 2005 :( But you made it! And you met all of us (gestures with hand to indicate blogfriends)
2006 will be your year, or rather, the start of your years, because I hope there are many, many good ones.
Merry Christmas back to you too! I'm sure I'll be back around to wish you Happy New Year at some point too.
Open heart surgery? Yikes, that must be rough.
Merry Christmas to you, Finn, and I hope you get your strength back quick!
i am very happy you are back.
we all have scars there, it's just that yours show.
2006 is going to be so much better, that's certain.
Glad to hear that you are back and I wish you all the best for 2006.
PS If you had your op at the Brompton then rest assured that you were in great hands.
Stephanie (Boston):
Thanks for the Ninja Training School advice but I think I won't be attending now...;)
Thank you for everything this year.
Erriku:
It is what it is.
Thank you.
Chloe:
Thank you.
Stephanie (Brighton, London, Canada):
Yes I was at the Brompton, what do you know about it? The plot thickens.
Thanks.
I know some of the surgeons professionally and have great respect for them. I hope your recovery goes smoothly and that you've got lots of friends and family helping you out in the meantime. Have a merry Christmas. :)
"It is what it is"? huuuu..I guess it was quite a posh hospital because that's the last fashionable expression in the elite circles, isn't it?
Anyway, well done for coming back alive Finn, I do appreciate it very much and I'll also be glad if from now onwards you keep up an optimistic mood that will surely speed up your recovery process.
My ex-fiance had a big heart problem from birth and he was perfectly all right so, I can asure you that with a bit from your part you'll do excellent!
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR.
The good news is you will be reborn in 2006!
Welcome back and here's to good health for years and years to come!
*hug* goodness, it has been a strange long year for you! recover well and rest as much as you can. vitamin e is supposedly good for scars.
how curious that you tick and click like knitting needles... seems like it would be rather soothing.
But you're here to post another day, and that, my dear, is where it counts.
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