....well, Futher to the above......
When I went to the Vx dealer to await the availability of the GSF alternator, I did not feel good. In fact just walking from a taxi to the doors of the dealer, a matter of yards, a breathlessness that had been affecting me for about two weeks was considerable worse. I virtually collapsed into the dealers waiting area seating and struggled to get some sort of breath. After 10 minutes I was just able to meet the service manager and by then explain the latest difficulties in obtaining an alternator for my car that was still in their workshop. I just managed to complete the exercise to purchase the AS product, and then go home via a lift given to me by Caffyns.
Once I walked into my flat, via, thank God, a lift, I could only fall onto my bed. Decided to phone my doctors in an attempt to see them before my booked appointment, but no luck. Just offered a possible phonecall that afternoon. I explained that would be too late. I needed to speak to my doctor "now". Predictably when I explained my symptoms I was advised to ring 999!
So I did, and was given a full emergency status after the initial 999 booking with a senior ambulanc call handler asking for further information. An ambulance turned up within minutes, and two full paramedics immediately connected me to their electronic devices, with ECG printouts produced. The senior of the two looked at all the readings,and additional manual checks on me. He said one part of the ECG readings were "needing further urgent assessment. He rang the Cardiac department at the Ashford main regional hospital. The ECG was wired to them. The response was a great shock. .I has suffered a heart attack about two weeks before! The instruction of the cardiac doctors was to rush me in at full emergency speed direct to their operating theatre for an attempt to give me surgery.
On blues & two's the ambulance took just about 5 minutes to get to the hospital, which normally takes me 15 to 20 minutes to arrive at.
Once there I found myself surrounded by the two paramedics and 8 cardiac doctors / surgeons. I was taken into the operating theatre and for almost three hours their leading surgeon attempted to unblock three main blood supplies to my heart. He failed to do so. I was then given a brief explanation that my heart was damaged, and i
t was being fed blood via just one remaining main source. Only a full corrective operation would save me . I was transferred to the CCU for full monitoring, assessment, x-rays, further eggs, and temporary medication to delay further damage and possible death.
Currently I am awaiting transfer to the St Thomas Hospital London who have accepted me as an emergency case, where they will assess the situation and decide on the correct operation(s) to be carried out. I have been advised that a triple heart bypass is very much an option.
So, not only has my beloved Omega broken down, but so have I! Cannot really believe it all - I still don't think I have had a heart attack, as it just did not happen as I thought heart attacks did!
Oh well, I hope in about six weeks I will be able to legally and physically drive my Omega again. But we shall see.
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