Thursday - Titian Tango'd Thug Tramples Trade

[VinSumRox]

A day of fence repairing and tree tidying, just back home for a cup of tea. Daughter now has plenty of firewood for next winter!

 

[VinSumRox]

So it looks like I'm taking the circa 1% chance of death or stroke to have a mitral valve repair, medication not being an option to deal with the size of the leak (as already intimated). Let's just say it's definitely not keyhole surgery.

Bits of not-such-bad news: the consultant has said it's fine to travel to France by plane/train in the meantime; that Autumn might well be possible for surgery (and no particularly elevated risks in the meantime if I'm sensible); that the consultant will be writing to the best mitral valve repairer he knows (who happens to be at the Royal Brompton, and who repaired the valve of a good friend of his younger than me, who's regained all lost athletic capacity), and though my CT scan isn't perfect (a bit of furring), there's nothing serious to warrant undue concern.

All the same, not quite what I thought I'd be doing in the first year of my "Who knows what's round the corner?" semi-retirement. Ho F hum.

Sounds like reasoned advice and worth having done.

 

[Veronese68]

Evening folks,
busy day of work, but a constructive one at least. Been nice and sunny here. Not much else to report.
Hope PN69 has managed to get his glasses off his head.
That all sounds a bit serious Mr Trumpet, but also sounds like you’re in good hands. All the best with it.