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Should I go with the second opinion
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@dollydutchgirl1946 I have been very well treated and looked after for about 5 years by a Professor of Cardiology in the South Manchester area who prescribed my medication and I have had many scans, tests and a Cardiac MRI last year which first detected Breast Cancer possibility. Within a week I was at the Breast Cancer hospital for full treatment in one go. An examination by a consultant followed by a mamogram (which really hurt) and then an ultrasound and biopsy all in a morning. Eventually a nodule was removed by surgery and was Benighn. The MRI lead to the Angiogram for the stents which were not fitted. I was told by an aquintance of a bad experience they had wjth heart treatment with my Manchester team although as the Consultant said each visit You will not have a heart attack, I will look after you keep taking the pills..
After the 10 months since LAD diagnosis and being 80 in October I took the advice and his Cardiologist with a private appointmenat at Addenbrooks hospital in Cambridge in March I then came here to Spain and had a further telephone appointment from here, when he was a liitle agressive telling me he had retrieved all the scans ettc from Manchester all was in good order apart from the LAD. He has arranged for me to see the clinical lead surgeon at Royal Papworth Hospital, listed as the leading heart and lung centre for the UK.
I return at the beGinning of June for the appointme t to see if
he will ooperate on me.
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@winproc - please take care not to overdo things in Cartagena (a very beautiful place). My CABG surgery was undertaken in Southampton and the team continue to take care of me. I have another CT scan scheduled towards the end of the month to see how the fluid in my lungs is doing and then I see my heart consultant again in early June to see how he feels things are proceeding. Hopefully, by then I will be able to start the heart rehabilitation classes. I was supposed to start them a couple of weeks ago but, because of the pulmonary oedema, the team wouldn’t let me start 🙈🤦🏼♀️.
I recently celebrated my 80th birthday together with my fabulous husband, our lovely daughter and her husband plus, our amazing, 17 year old grandson and his girlfriend together with our beautiful 26 year old granddaughter and her fiancé (who are getting married in September). Our Granddaughter twice a week - and says ‘Grandma- you know I love you to bits but, if you decide to cark it before our wedding, I’m going to be hopping mad - you do know that don’t you!! Then, we both burst out laughing - especially as last time my husband chimed in saying “You’ll be hopping mad, how do you I’ll feel - she’s already spent a fortune on a new dress, shoes and hat. That’s money I’ll never get back!!” 🤣😂
Please go into your surgery confident in the skills of your surgeon and his/her team, be prepared for a few days of post operative discomfort (you will be given pain killers to help) but, from then on things get better day by day. You will be amazed at how quickly the wound will heal. Wishing you and your wife every happiness during your time in Cartagena and every good wish possible for a perfect outcome to your surgery… 😊