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A Royal Heart Is Often Hidden Under A Tattered Cloak.
So yeah, my heart. I’m feeling better every day and my stamina is fast coming back. In fact I feel great. That is until I stretch myself and then I hit a wall. The chest pains come back and I get anxious and have trouble breathing normally. My problem is as long as I’m careful and make sure I’ve got the time to rest I can walk all round Glasgow with almost no problems and thats when my confidance takes a great leap forward. Then something like this morning happens.
I walked to the bus stop to get to the doctors this morning and the buses were running late. Thats fine as theres that many that go past the house it’s never usually a problem. Then I check my watch and my appointments in 10 minutes and I’m still only a few hundred yards from the house. The bus turns up, I get on, it drops me off at the bus station with a couple of seconds to spare. It’s at this point tht I forget I’m still ill so I start off at a brisk walk. For those that don’t know my home town the doctors is about 300 yards form the bus stop past the fire and police stations. I made it to the fire station and my chest decided it was time to start playing up. I started hyperventilating and the muscles in my chest felt like they were made of stone and as usually happens when this starts I started to get really anxious as well. I’m now feeling like shit again and that was five hours ago!
I had my appointment with my normal* doctor who seemed a little perplexed that I hadn’t had an echo done before now if not one at the hospital and sent of the request for one as the previous doctor I’d seen had suggested. This is where it got a little weird. My doctor was willing to sign me off for the entire two months it will take until I get the echo performed. Normally I might have jumped at this chance but for two reasons. The first one is, as I’ve previously mentioned, I’m going a little nuts here at home by myself for half the week and the rather more important one I only get six months sick leave on full pay. I think I’m getting very close to that at the moment and two more months would take me right up to the limit if not over it. I’ve got my occupational health interview again on wednesday after it had been pushed back a week. I’ve to talk with them about a phased return to work and if they come up with something that my docs happy about then I’ll get to go back to work sooner rather than later. Considering I was preparing myself to go back on Monday it’s a bit of a knock.
Maybe I should slip a knob gag in to these posts to make them a little lighter to read?
*Due to waiting times to get seen by a doctor I’ve had to take the first GP available and thankfully, until recently, it’s been the same doctor every time. Unfortunately it wasn’t my normal doctor.
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Bob on August 15th, 2008 tagged
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