Update On Martin Small

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Blimey! 

He owes that woodworm big time!

[fsn]

Hell's teeth and Odd's bodkins!

Sure that was a kidney and not the liver? 

Hope everything goes OK with the recovery.

[JimLeCat]

Don't know what to say to that except Ouch! 

Here's hoping he has a smooth, trouble-free recovery.

[Steve J]

Blimey, that was one big tumour . I remember watching some hospital type programme nearly 15 years ago with friends, which I was not really following. A girl was on the op table and what looked like candy floss suddenly popped up out of her back during the op. This was the tumour that had been growing around her spine . The sight of it stopped the conversation dead in its tracks.

[Orcs]

Thanks for the update.

I do with loosing a few ponnds , but I'd rather not do it that way

Bests wishes to Martin for a speedy recovery

[Hertsblue]

1.24 Kg? That's two and three quarter pounds in old money.  Better out than in, I guess.

[Rob]

Nope......It was taking up almost all of the right hand side of Mart's abdomen.....
1.25 Kg.....It apparently filled one of those cardboard kidney 'trays' that they use in hospitals for you to puke up in.

I can't quite get my head around that....That's a bag and a quarter of sugar (weight-wise)......But the kidderly (sic) wouldn't be as dense as sugar.....So STROLL ON....No wonder it had stuck to his intestine.

Not sure....Did I say that 'they' removed 20cm (8") of Mart's gut because of that fact ?

The painkillers he had to take after he came round were fairly phenomenal as well ! Four epidurals.....Didn't help.....Four 'nerve blocks'..(So he was numb from the sternum down....."They'll keep you going for a good while Mr Small".....Oh no they didn't !).....So then, the 'self administered' morphine from the gubbins by the side of his bed.

Makes me wince thinking about it !......No wonder the poor chap's 'rather tired and worn out'.....But so happy it's done and dusted.

I'm going to leave him in peace for at least a week.....By that stage, I hope he'll be feeling up to posting something himself.
On Mart's behalf....Thanks all, for all the good wishes.....I know it's meant a lot to him !

Cheers - Phil

Thanks for the update Phil. Wow, poor Martin, this really must have taken it out of him. I wonder if he knew all of this was going to happen. Do you know how long the recovery is likely to take? Is his wife and family getting any support? Carers are all too often forgotten so mine and know doubt the rest of the boards best wishes tio them.

Cheers, Rob 

[Techno]

Hi Rob.

I'll try and contact Mart or his better half towards the end of the week.....Unless the man himself has felt sufficiently recovered to post something himself.
Support ?.....Don't know, Matey....I'm not sure how you 'qualify' to get that sort of help.

From recent experience, not a lot of hope....(My older sister and her husband both ended up in hospital on the same day as Mart's op.....and they're struggling for 'care' at present.)

I won't bore you with the details, because I'd start rambling and getting VERY cross.

Cheers - Phil (Who's still rather frayed at the edges at the moment. )

[Techno]

OK then.....
Had a good chat with Mrs Mart this morning.

Mart's still pretty tired, and though he wants to get around to emails and the forum, he's spending a fair amount of time simply resting....which is obviously what he need to do.

Progress, in the way that he's now 'off' the zimmer.....and using just a walking stick.
He's had his twenty eight 'staples' removed and all seems to be healing well.
He's reached a goal that he set himself, which was to walk to the local 'cafe' (100 yards) for a bacon butty....Well done, Mart !!

Still awaiting the result of the biopsy.....Few more weeks to go before anything'd due to be heard on that score.....He'll know that we all have our fingers firmly crossed for that !

Whatever the result of that, he'll still be having a scan every 3 months (presumably for the foreseeable future ?)

Think that's all the news (said he, trying to read his scribbles !)

Cheers - Phil.

[toxicpixie]

All good news thus far then, I truly do agree with the healing powers of bacon

I strongly suggest much rest combined with a little gentle exercise as able. Never mind owt else.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

You mean they let him eat a bacon butty.......

ianS

[fsn]

Good for him!

This will be the long and frustrating bit. I agree with Mr Pixie. Lots of rest and gentle exercise. However, one cannot doubt the power of bacon butties and the love of a good woman. 

Wish him well, and a speedy recovery.   

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Good on him!
Speedy recovery Martin.

[Leon]

Good to hear, looking forward to seeing him back on the Forum soon!

[ronan]

thank you for this feedback,
we all wish to read him soon.