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Another Year Passes

Posted by MadMike <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=MadMike' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on December 16, 2024, 11:13 am

It's that date again. It comes round so quickly.

Eleven years ago on the 16th December 2013 I was on the operating tale having a single heart by pass. and also having my failing Aortic valve removed and a natural one fitted as a replacement.

So here I am eleven years later still active, fit amd eternally grateful for the skills of yhe surgeon and his team. Thank you to the whole NHS system which undoubtedly saved my life by their prompt action and in house skills. Eleven more years that I could play with my motorbikes, and I look forward to the next eleven years.

Other opinions may be available but this one is always correct.

Re: Another Year Passes

Posted by JERRY <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=JERRY' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on December 16, 2024, 11:45 am, in reply to "Another Year Passes"

I'm glad your still with us Mike I may need some more spacers made

Only joking mate look forward to us meeting up again soon in the new year unless of course you sell a bike that needs delivering before Christmas

The oldest rocker in town!

Re: Another Year Passes

Posted by Tonupdave <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Tonupdave' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on December 16, 2024, 11:58 am, in reply to "Another Year Passes"

Sometimes your lucky with the NHS they buggered me up whe I had bowel cancer didn't get told until six months later than had no aftercare when I asked Oh panic got aftercare .. Had heart attack couldn't fit a stent fair enough on four pills a day one has been altered. .They worked miracles with my eyes but still waiting for the op. Oh forgot the buggers gave me Sepsis equipment wasn't cleaned properly . That's why I now have a walking stick and can't ride as balance affected I do get help with that but not NHS.. at the moment waiting for Eye op. Heart op. That's been four months also a CT scan .I had to fill in a questionnaire online to see if I was mentally capable??? Still haven't heard anymore it's not as if a CT scan is complicated..

Tonupdave..T.U.D.

Re: Another Year Passes

Posted by geoff the bonnie <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=geoff+the+bonnie' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on December 16, 2024, 1:20 pm, in reply to "Re: Another Year Passes"

Well done Michael, i am still looking after my reconditioned knee that is 20 years old and did have an expiry date of 10 to 15 years but still working well. Most of the rest of my body is crap but that knee will still kick out when i die

Re: Another Year Passes

Posted by A65Bill <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=A65Bill' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on December 16, 2024, 2:44 pm, in reply to "Another Year Passes"

I've just been enrolled on another 5 years observation research project.
Had a good laugh whenthe Senior Nurse managing this side recognised me from the 10 year intervention trial that ended in 2017.
2015 MadMike called in unannounced at the same time as my brother, also unexpected. NHS respected my 2 priorities set for them:
1. survival
2. back on my bike
A couple of years later a Consultant confided in me that I had not been expected to survive, then laughed and observed that the fact I kept turning up on a bike to clinics suggested a proxy indicator that I had survived.
There was also a handwritten note on my file from another (scooter riding) Specialist Sister who gave me a bollocking for bump starting the bike after my first clinic,
"You had 10s of £k Consultants' time & used probably £millions of equipment & we said we'd get you back on a bike, but we didn't say you could f***g bump start it!"
She was not laughing or joking.

Re: Another Year Passes

Well done Michael - no more frights, please.

Re: Another Year Passes

Posted by MadMike <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=MadMike' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on December 16, 2024, 11:48 pm, in reply to "Another Year Passes"

Well the day of the event is nearly over, so here I am the morning after the op...smiling and glass in hand.