Absent Friends & Missing Persons

[french frank]

Had my back surgery yesterday . I feel dramatically better. Post op pain, of course but that should pass in a few days. Listening to the Du Pre/Zuckerman/ Barenboim recording of the Tchaikovsky Trio.

What a relief…! Long may it continue, rf.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Had my back surgery yesterday . I feel dramatically better. Post op pain, of course but that should pass in a few days.

Excellent news, rfg - delighted to hear it.

[Pianorak]

Had my back surgery yesterday . I feel dramatically better. . .

So pleased for you - and the Tchaikovsky Trio will lift your spirit still further!

[EdgeleyRob]

Had my back surgery yesterday . I feel dramatically better. Post op pain, of course but that should pass in a few days. Listening to the Du Pre/Zuckerman/ Barenboim recording of the Tchaikovsky Trio.

Great news Richard !

[EdgeleyRob]

Oh well - here's another one. Have today been diagnosed with neovascular (wet) age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in left eye. Started almost out of the blue - some five days ago. Eye injections to start early next week. Oh the joys of old age - probably should be thankful to have made it to old age. (Not absent or missing just yet).

Best wishes Pianorak.

[EdgeleyRob]

Seeing as we are comparing medical notes.
I was diagnosed with heart failure in January this year.
Seriously impaired left ventricle function,prob hereditary.
Good news is my consultant has ruled out device therapy (pacemaker) and surgery for now,but this will more than likely change in the future.
Shed load of medication,including a new drug not long out of trials,and great music doing the trick.
I have retired now too so lots of music time,still dog walking but shorter walks and more often.
Got to keep active while I still can and refuse to give in to the condition.

[BBMmk2]

Seeing as we are comparing medical notes.
I was diagnosed with heart failure in January this year.
Seriously impaired left ventricle function,prob hereditary.
Good news is my consultant has ruled out device therapy (pacemaker) and surgery for now,but this will more than likely change in the future.
Shed load of medication,including a new drug not long out of trials,and great music doing the trick.
I have retired now too so lots of music time,still dog walking but shorter walks and more often.
Got to keep active while I still can and refuse to give in to the condition.

Indeed, that is he most important thing to do, ER! :) All the best!

[Dave2002]

Re msg 1122 and piano lifting - Nettle and Markham - http://www.nettleandmarkham.com/netmark_002.htm

This site - http://www.nettleandmarkham.com/Biography.htm mentions that the piano is a very rare 1928 model. It would have been even rarer if some of us had had anything more to do with it.

[Petrushka]

Best of luck to all Forumites experiencing medical problems. The fact of the matter is that by the time of the age of the average Forumite is reached (55 to 70 I'd guess), one is very lucky indeed to have got away without anything at all.

[richardfinegold]

Seeing as we are comparing medical notes.
I was diagnosed with heart failure in January this year.
Seriously impaired left ventricle function,prob hereditary.
Good news is my consultant has ruled out device therapy (pacemaker) and surgery for now,but this will more than likely change in the future.
Shed load of medication,including a new drug not long out of trials,and great music doing the trick.
I have retired now too so lots of music time,still dog walking but shorter walks and more often.
Got to keep active while I still can and refuse to give in to the condition.

As you and I have discussed privately...the treatments that you are on are so advanced compared to when I trained in what now seems to be the Stone Age of Medicine that I wouldn't blow the retirement account on big splurge just yet, as your will probably need funds to be purchasing music for the next 30 years of so.

Regarding myself, comkng from a non Christian Tradition, I think that I am beginning to discover the meaning of 'Resurrection". I was in such misery for 2 months and so progressively disabled and now I feel like my life has been given back to me. Perhaps I will blast Mahler 2 today at a level guaranteed to irritate the neighbors

[Daniel]

and now I feel like my life has been given back to me.

What a wonderful feeling!

Good luck to all sufferers. There's perhaps no more vivid example of absence making the heart grow fonder, than health.

[EdgeleyRob]

As you and I have discussed privately...the treatments that you are on are so advanced compared to when I trained in what now seems to be the Stone Age of Medicine that I wouldn't blow the retirement account on big splurge just yet, as your will probably need funds to be purchasing music for the next 30 years of so.

Regarding myself, comkng from a non Christian Tradition, I think that I am beginning to discover the meaning of 'Resurrection". I was in such misery for 2 months and so progressively disabled and now I feel like my life has been given back to me. Perhaps I will blast Mahler 2 today at a level guaranteed to irritate the neighbors

Another 30 years ? Thanks Richard,I'll take that.

[antongould]

Seeing as we are comparing medical notes.
I was diagnosed with heart failure in January this year.
Seriously impaired left ventricle function,prob hereditary.
Good news is my consultant has ruled out device therapy (pacemaker) and surgery for now,but this will more than likely change in the future.
Shed load of medication,including a new drug not long out of trials,and great music doing the trick.
I have retired now too so lots of music time,still dog walking but shorter walks and more often.
Got to keep active while I still can and refuse to give in to the condition.

You keep doing everything right Rob .... Retirement is IMVVHO a thing of wonder and will give County time to get back where they belong .....

[richardfinegold]

Another 30 years ? Thanks Richard,I'll take that.

It's no exaggeration--I've seen many Patients with Heart Failure whose life expectancy would have been 1 year in the early 1980s go on for more than 20 years...the advances in Oncology and Transplant Medicine get more headlines and have been significant but it's Heart Failure where the biggest improvements in longevity have been made.
So keep practicing that Alkan

[BBMmk2]

Thank goodness for music!