Hi Guys
Hope I'm posting this in the correct area!!
Martin's wife has asked me to post an update and to thank everyone for their kind messages.
Operation went well, although took longer than expected. He's probably going to be in ICU for another 2-3 days .(Once he's on a normal ward we can smuggle in the KFC!)
Cheers
Jamo
Smuggle in the KFC?! I know hospital food is bad, but that's just adding to his misery surely ;)
Glad he's out, hope the recovery comes along well :)
Great news. Thank you.
Speedy recovery Martin.
Great news, thanks for the update and welcome to the Forum!
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Many thanks for posting that Jamo ! Great news !
As Will says.....Speedy recovery, that man !
Cheers - Phil (PS Welcome to the forum.) ;)l
Good news that all went well and wish him a speedy recovery.
Good to hear. Fingers crossed for a speedy recovery.
My thoughts are with his family.
Great ! :)
I understand that in Japan you get sushi in post-operative care; tasty, light on the digestion, and a reminder that life is still worth living.
What they all said, except maybe the sushi ;D
Great news, hoping for a speedy recovery :)
Quote from: FierceKitty on 26 July 2014, 12:47:00 AM
I understand that in Japan you get sushi in post-operative care; tasty, light on the digestion, and a reminder that life is still worth living.
Unless you're a fish.
Luck Mart. Hospital food is truly terrible. Just found out I'm diabetic - so if I LIKE IT I CANT EAT IT. Think I'll go for 5 fun years rather than 20 Dull Boring ones. The ultimate was being told by a medic Prof about my age to cut down on drinking - given the amount the medics put down in the 70's bit off that.
Mines a pint of stella.
IanS
Quote from: FierceKitty on 26 July 2014, 12:47:00 AM
I understand that in Japan you get sushi in post-operative care; tasty, light on the digestion, and a reminder that life is still worth living.
In this country they'd probably boil it...
Great idea though, I'd go for it :D
Ian - harsh :/
Good news about Martin. Hope he'll be back hacking the plasticard really soon.
And Ian, once the diabetic terror wears off you'll find not much has changed. Go easy on the lager, though.
Yeah - don't drink, don't eat burgers, hard cheese, dougnuts, pork pies, Chinese.......do eat greens, mackerel (ugh).
Still not as bad as Mart....
IanS
Excellent - good news 8)
Quote from: ianrs54 on 26 July 2014, 09:57:39 AM
Yeah - don't drink, don't eat burgers, hard cheese, dougnuts, pork pies, Chinese.......do eat greens, mackerel (ugh).
Still not as bad as Mart....
IanS
Grilled or smoked, it's delicious. What's your complaint about mackerel?
Bottom feeders.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 30 July 2014, 02:51:43 AM
Grilled or smoked, it's delicious. What's your complaint about mackerel?
I DONT LIKE IT !!!!!IanS
Quote from: ianrs54 on 30 July 2014, 07:21:26 AM
I DONT LIKE IT !!!!!
IanS
No need to shout, were not hard of herring
Don't carp on about it!
Look, I didn't start this round of fish jokes, but I do get to join in. It's in my contract in joined up whiting!
Quote from: mad lemmey on 30 July 2014, 07:37:55 AM
Don't carp on about it!
Look, I didn't start this round of fish jokes, but I do get to join in. It's in my contract in joined up whiting!
Sorry ...didnt mean to upset anyone...Thanks for letting minnow
Perhaps it's not my plaice to say, but you do barbel on......
Can I have "I'll sit perch on this fence", rather than getting involved in an argument ?
Eel regret that!
He's not herring as well as he used to.
I suppose there may be some gold to fish out of the situation.
IanS
Must go and paint those pike.
Right.....Back to the thread.
Update to follow (Maybe even from the man himself) .....But apparently Mart's home !
Cheers - Phil
Dr Martin Luther King, it is not widely known, was a keen angler. It is speculated that he got one of his ideas on a Sunday afternoon on hearing a companion exclaim "I have a bream."
Right, then.
Martin IS home.....Sounds good....Though fairly tired (which is hardly surprising !)
He says he looks like a Great White has taken a bite out of his side.
If you want to have a sweep.....You can have a guess at the weight of the removed kidney.
Docs seem very pleased, as there wasn't any sign of anything anywhere else.....But they'll obviously be monitoring him closely.
Cheers - Phil.
Did I miss the fishy puns? Or can I still chip in?
Phil,
This is really good news, thanks for keeping us updated.
Mollinary
That's great! Hope he's up to posting progress reports in person soon but thanks for passing that on.
I'm just so pleased to be able to pass on the good news. :)
I'm sure Mart will be back and posting, as soon as he feels less 'zonked out' !
Cheers - Phil
Great news, thanks for the update
Great news and thanks for keeping us posted Techno :).
Quote from: Techno on 30 July 2014, 05:13:04 PM
Update to follow (Maybe even from the man himself) .....But apparently Mart's home !
8) :) :)
That's great news Phil!
Good news...
IanS
Thanks for that, Phil. It's good to know. :) :) :)
Splendid stuff :)
G'wan then, how heavy was the kidney... I'll go double and say 300gr's....
Quote from: toxicpixie on 31 July 2014, 08:19:23 AM
Splendid stuff :)
G'wan then, how heavy was the kidney... I'll go double and say 300gr's....
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
One and quarter KILO's?! Bloody hell... that was a lucky fall in the loft, then :S
Best wishes and speedy recovery, am unsurprised he's feeling a bit rough still.
Hope he's got a good book or three. Or given that amount of painkillers, maybe some simple cartoons :)
Wow - that's a seriously stroke of luck to find & get sorted; really pleased he's on the mend 8)
Blimey! :o
He owes that woodworm big time!
Hell's teeth and Odd's bodkins!
Sure that was a kidney and not the liver? :o
Hope everything goes OK with the recovery.
Don't know what to say to that except Ouch! :o
Here's hoping he has a smooth, trouble-free recovery.
Blimey, that was one big tumour :o. 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 :o. The sight of it stopped the conversation dead in its tracks.
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
1.24 Kg? That's two and three quarter pounds in old money. :o :o :o Better out than in, I guess.
Quote from: Techno on 31 July 2014, 09:46:37 AM
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
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. )
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.
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.
You mean they let him eat a bacon butty.......
ianS
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.
Good on him!
Speedy recovery Martin. :D
Good to hear, looking forward to seeing him back on the Forum soon!
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thank you for this feedback,
we all wish to read him soon.
Great news that he's on the mend.
Good to hear Mart is progressing well.
It's really important to do the resting part of the recovery. It's far too easy to over do things.
So take it easy Mart.
get well soon!
Cheers,
Rob
Quote from: fred 12df on 05 August 2014, 09:20:38 PM
Good to hear Mart is progressing well.
It's really important to do the resting part of the recovery. It's far too easy to over do things.
So take it easy Mart.
Yes, Fred is entirely right. It may be boring but it's necessary.
Agree - hospital with no radio and a 1/2 read book gets a tad tedious after 1 1/2 days.
ianS
Quote from: fsn on 05 August 2014, 11:26:08 AM
However, one cannot doubt the power of bacon butties
I totally agree with this one.
Quote from: fsn on 05 August 2014, 11:26:08 AM
good woman.
??? -- Bit like Unicorns
Quote from: fsn on 05 August 2014, 11:26:08 AM
the love of a good woman.
This might open up the stitches - :d
Take it easy Mart,
THANKS FOR ALL YOUR SUPPORT it has really help me through a difficult time for me and my family
I am feeling better each day and will find out on the 28th what further treatment I may need
Thanks Phil for keeping the forum informed. You have all been great thanks again :D :D
Martin
WONDERFUL to see you back, Mart !!
Great to hear things are still improving !
Cheers - Phil
Welcome back sir!
All the best for the 28th, great to see you back here.
Martin
Best wishes for a continued recovery.
Edward
All the best, Martin. Remember, slow and steady.
May I ask you how old are you Mart ?
Hope you'll do fine.
:) :) :)
The man himself! Good stuff :)
Nice to hear from you. I hope you are going to buy those woodworm a decent piece of oak to chew on as a thank you. :) :)
Great to hear from the man himself, good luck for the 28th
REST
Great news.
Dave :D
Quote from: mart678 on 09 August 2014, 10:58:29 AM
THANKS FOR ALL YOUR SUPPORT it has really help me through a difficult time for me and my family
I am feeling better each day and will find out on the 28th what further treatment I may need
Thanks Phil for keeping the forum informed. You have all been great thanks again :D :D
Martin
Take it easy Martin. :)
8) :) 8)
Hi Martin, if you are reading this how are you doing? :)
We havn't heard from you in a while.