Temporary Closure

[ngtrains.com]

Due to some unplanned lying about in York District Hospital EDM Models/www.ngtrains.com is temporarily closed.

 

Having come in to hospital via A&E on Friday night the weekend has been spent with nothing happening. Next is a CT scan but apparently the CT scanners don't work on weekends with a Ryder Cup in the month. Seems likely I will bebetter before they decide what's wrong.

 

I have only a not so smart phone with me so communications will be a bit strained until I escape

 

Paul

[Giles]

Paul,

Extremely sorry to hear af any such thing..... Wishing you all the very best - and every sympathy. Must unpleasant and extremely frustrating for you.

 

Get better soon.

 

Giles

[Mike Bellamy]

UPDATE

Copied from NGRM Online



 

Aha, all happens in NHS hospitals at weekends but I have found a PC to play with. This may only provide brief connectivity with the outside world but whilst I have it I can expand the news of my demise with a bit more detail.

I wound up in York District Hospital via ambulance on Friday night having been in real pain which seemed muscular but made breathing painfull. It seemed what happened then in that A&E run a competition to guess as many things as it possible that it could be and only when bored of that think about eliminating a few of them aiming to end up with just one. For added sport this includes seven hours on a trolley before being moved to the "Can't Decide Unit - CDU" if you have watched Casualty on TV. Actually York call it the AMU - acute medical unit but the function is the same.

All the usual things were thrown into the ring but favourites were heart attack or pulmanory embolism. Two days later the latter is favourite but is as yet unconfirmed by CT scan (York CT scanners dont work weekends in any month with a Ryder Cup in it) but the treatment has been given for this anyway. This is a drug Fragmin and Warfarin to dissolve any blockage and it appears to be working so by the time I get a CT on Monday I'll probably be cured.

All the Fragmin and Warfarin stuff is old hat to me as I have been on warfarin since I had a DVT in 1995 (we worked out tonight) and one of the incoming tests was my INR which is a measure of if the warfarin is doing its stuff - and it wasn't.

Obviously its hard to predict the future but as I have progressed from acute pain to acute boredom things have improved massively and subject to a CT scan on Monday I doubt they'll keep me in long. What the impact or regime is when I do get out I won't know until it happens but EDM Models is bound to be a bit low key for awhile once I do escape.

The things is in recent weeks I have set about losing weight with success and have been cycling a lot so on that empiracle evidence exercise is bad for you!

Thanks for the kind wishes on this forum and those received in personal messages. I probably won't come back on here until I get home (unless the boredom gets worse)

Paul

 

[Allegheny1600]

Sorry to read this, get well soon Paul.

Regards,

John E.

[ngtrains.com]

Thank you all for your kind wishes.

 

I have escaped hospital and am now apparently cured but there will be a follow up series of appointments to get my INR (measure of blood clottyness) in the right range and stable. As I left hospital I was expecting to be injecting myself with Fragmin as well as taking Warfarin until it sorted itself out.  I made the schoolboy error of saying to the nurse doing my fragmin injection, "I'm probably going to have to do that myself" wherupon she handed me the syringe and said i'd better start now then! The good news is that its already improved enough that the injections are no longer neccessary, just keep taking the pills.

 

Applying engineering to my condition here is what happened. 19 years ago I suffered a DVT and it was all Mel Gibsons fault for it occured whilst sitting in a flea pit watching that cobblers Braveheart. As the result of it have had two sorts of swelling on my lower right leg, one bit that is solid and hasn't moved and then the daily swell during the day, go down at night.  Since I have been cycling that solid lump has changed suddenly and dramatically. So my theory is that some crap has come loose in my leg and got stuck at my lungs!   Even the consultant couldn't say I was wrong (she didnt say i was right either though)

 

It wasn't all dreadful in hospital. Some of you may be friends with me on FaceBook (others will now be spitting in their tea and screaming "he said the FB word") and will know about the PITA championship league, the escapee and the escape socks!   [there was bu&&er all else to do other than write what some people say I should expand into a sitcom]

 

Now at home I have dealt with a few urgent EDM things but its going to be awhile before I get going again

 

What i can say is that a "near death experience" changes your perspective and in the long run I think I am going to do less of the stuff I have to do and more of the stuff I want to do

 

Thanks again for your support and kind wishes

[ianmaccormac]

Glad to see you are on the mend! Take care. Cheers!

Ian in Blackpool

[hayfield]

Paul

 

I had a PE (well 2 large ones blocking the arteries into my lungs) in July 2 years ago. The NHS sorted me out and to everyone's surprise I was back at work in a month. I did get to see the Olympics and para Olympics, then the wife got fed up with me at home and was sent back to work.

 

Take things a bit easy at first and keep doing what the doctors say. Wish they could sort out my arthritis as well as the blood clots, but other than that I seem to be OK.

 

Good luck and I hope you recover fully soon

[Barnaby]

Great to hear your free from the hospital.

I'm a diabetic on insulin and I had that same experience of being told you-have-to-inject some 30 years ago now.

Me inject, PANIC, well yes even though the hypo-deemic noodle was the old brass & glass type when needs must you do it.  Much better these days with pen style syringes or still my preference the disposable syringe, you know the common druggy orange tipped one you often see in TV shows.

Deffo too if you are going to be ill needing hospitalisation try to avoid doing it at the weekend.

 

Keep well