In my experience, surgeons can be a bit blinkered, and often see surgery as the solution to everything. Other physicians tend to be more cautious, and favour less risky and/or irreversible remedies, unless all else has failed.
Of course, that’s in the UK, where it’s all still free (for now). I imagine if you’re paying for it, the cost must also be a factor, at least for your insurers.
The pictures are very pretty, and carry some sort of promise in them.
I hope it’s all resolved soon, and you can all go home and get some proper rest.
If all goes as planned, surgery first half of the week.
In the meantime, I have developed some kind of 9th floor vertigo. The elevators here are very bouncy. I have never had a height or elevator problem before but I have also never ridden an elevator multiple times a day for days at a time. Last night I suddenly found myself feeling like the floor was constantly shifting. Now that I am home again for a quick break, I feel much better. Like I need something else to deal with.
I heard of someone who designed a really tall hotel, with an elevaror shaft, but no elevator. So you step in, then just fall. All the way to the ground.
My local health authority built a huge new hospital in the late sixties. The main building is a ten storey tower block. In the fashion of the day, it was equipped with huge, opening, picture windows.
Then they put the acute psychiatric ward on the top floor. This is absolutely true. It took them two years to work out why they were experiencing so many suicides. All those poor people who thought they could fly. Or just wanted to escape.
The windows here opened at one time. The handles are now gone. This is the 9th floor. I am not sure what emergency, maybe fire, could have ever prompted anyone to open and exit a 9th floor window.
All done. Went in with hematocrit of 35, came out with 35. Only 10cc of blood loss. Complete valve replace. The bacteria destroyed the old one.
Up to 10 days recovery.
So relieved.
