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Not yet, but hopefully after a few days, once I can get out to go round the shops and the swelling has gone down.
A few decent nights of sleep and taking things easy will no doubt help! :)

On another note, just picked this up on AAEC a quote from FT:

Not a good omen - looks like we could do with a lithium battery production line over here - but that'll never happen...
Things go from bad to worse! Perhaps they'll get a new shipping service for the batteries soon!
 
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Perhaps they'll get a new shipping service for the batteries soon!
It's called a boat and takes 3 months to get here, unless a proper air-cargo company can be found to ship them to somewhere in Europe for onward transportation by land, rail & sea
 
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It's called a boat and takes 3 months to get here, unless a proper air-cargo company can be found to ship them to somewhere in Europe for onward transportation by land, rail & sea
Suppose it'll depend on whether it's cost effective enough for us to wait! :unsure:
If they don't find an acceptable alternative, I wonder if retailers here will put the prices up once they have the market to themselves!
 
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I have only one thing to say - B A R S T E W A R D S



Much nicer than GVC, doesn't go black either so won't gunk up your coils as bad, and just as good as Charlie's



Yes folks, I'm back but what a god awful time I've had, I thought it was going to be a more straightforward procedure, was even told by doc who got me to sign consent form that they would be going in through the wrist, which is much easier and quicker to recover from BUT when I got into the Lab the consultant decided he wanted to do more than just the Left Circumflex, and wanted to attack my Right Coronary artery again, so they ended up going through both the femoral arteries again - 3 hours in the Lab before they were done, went back up to recovery to be told I would be staying in overnight, possibly 2 due to the amount of contrast they had used again, had a bleed where the plugs had been put in, which left me sweaty & giddy, luckily one of the nurses was with me when it happened, and called the doc in and they stopped it - because the Cardiac ward was full, ended up staying the first night in the recovery room ( at least they brought in 2 proper beds, someone else had to stay as well, he escaped the next morning :laugh: ), my hands look like a pin cushion and my groins are all swollen and bruised, Got a single room on the ward about midday and thought I might have been able to make good my escape last night, but they decided to keep me in until 10:30 this morning, the earliest anyone has managed to escape, haemoglobin levels back to normal after the blood loss (this was the hold up), and contrast flushed out of the kidneys.
It'll be a bit painful for the next couple of days and I shouldn't lift anything heavier than the kettle for a week, and hopefully that should be the end of it - don't know how many stents they put in but I could hear a lot of clicking when they snap them off and shunt them up the catheter, I'll find out when I go for the next review in a couple of months time.

So good to see you back Bob :)

Gosh, it really sounded like you had a real rough time.
I wish you a speedy recovery.
 
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So good to see you back Bob :)

Gosh, it really sounded like you had a real rough time.
I wish you a speedy recovery.
Feeling a lot better except for some pain in the lower back near where the kidneys are, have been googling such but cannot seem to find anything relevant, it could just be caused by the kidneys working overtime flushing out the contrast dye, will have to see how I feel in the morning they used more dye this time round, so I went through about 2.5 litres of fluids via the cannula to flush it through.
 

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i just ordered 330 ml of liquid from Chefs and saved £21.50 with the code :) I got 30 ml of Grandma`s Lemonade to try as it has got some good reviews :)
It's good to stock up when there's a decent discount! :thumb: :)
I could have sent you some of the lemonade one ..I got bored with it after a short while. Mine would have been too low in nicotine for you though.
I may try it with some custard or cream in it!
 
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Feeling a lot better except for some pain in the lower back near where the kidneys are, have been googling such but cannot seem to find anything relevant, it could just be caused by the kidneys working overtime flushing out the contrast dye, will have to see how I feel in the morning they used more dye this time round, so I went through about 2.5 litres of fluids via the cannula to flush it through.
I see on this page there are references to lower back pain: Complications from Catheterization, Angiogram or Angioplasty -- Cardiology Patients' Forum
and it's generally thought to be down to the femoral catheterisation making you lie flat/still for a long period of time. Could be some tension in your back muscles contributed to it. Hopefully, that's all it is and will go soon!

I had a lot of lower back pain for some time after I'd been in hospital, but it was hard to know quite what caused it as both contrast fluid and steroids can result in kidney or lower back pain.

Hope it's feeling better by tomorrow :)
 

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Feeling a lot better except for some pain in the lower back near where the kidneys are, have been googling such but cannot seem to find anything relevant, it could just be caused by the kidneys working overtime flushing out the contrast dye, will have to see how I feel in the morning they used more dye this time round, so I went through about 2.5 litres of fluids via the cannula to flush it through.
Good to see you back safe and sound Bob :)
 

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It's good to stock up when there's a decent discount! :thumb: :)
I could have sent you some of the lemonade one ..I got bored with it after a short while. Mine would have been too low in nicotine for you though.
I may try it with some custard or cream in it!
You never Know, If you added a bit of coconut as well, it could be similar to LCCC, but without the cake :laugh:
 
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