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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Lee: [QB] My wife has to have heart surgery. Win! I wish I was joking. . . I have this theory. Doctors only give her "bad news" - for which read, we're going to fuck with you by telling you the worst case scenario, because you know too much about your own condition(s) and keep correcting us when we give inaccurate summaries of your symptoms and treatment regimes, which makes us look bad, God-like arbiters of the species' health that we are - when I'm not there. Now, I'm really not as scary in real life as I am here (although some might disagree, Tom was too afraid to even meet me when he was in the UK). So they can't be afraid of my reaction. So it must be sadism on their part by trying to upset my wife when she's on her own. Example: first obstetrician we saw in New Zealand got so annoyed with Kate's own knowledge of her condition, she suggested she had a hole in her heart despite none of the tests and scans (X-rays, echoes, ultrasounds, MRIs) indicating anything of the sort. So in the past year, we've had: Renal Consultant - Lee = You Can Forget About Having Any More Kids Another Renal Consultant + Lee = Kids, No Problem Yet Another Renal Consultant - Lee = Remaining Kidney Deteriorating, You Need To Go On ACE Inhibitors Right Now To Reverse It, And No More Kids For The Duration If Ever So, yeah. The heart thing. She has pulmonary and aortic stenosis - a faulty heart valve (I think it's a case of having an effectively-bicuspid valve where there should be a tricuspid); in effect, it doesn't close properly and you get leak-back. So we go to her annual heart consult the other day, and get stuck in with some Eastern European wanker who obviously thinks he's Goran Whatsisfuck from ER and is more interested in how long we reckon it'll take to cycle out to where we live since he's thinking of moving to that area. So she has her scan, I pop out to call our childminder since we're gonna be late, and boom, while I'm gone Goran and the actual Cardiac Consultant who gave her a clean bill of heath after her last checkup (just after having 19 hours of labour followed by an emergency C-Section) spring the open-heart-surgery valve-replacement on her, subject to her Renal Consultant's agreement. And, another child? Not happening anytime soon (= if ever, we're in our thirties and we don't want too much separation of age between our children). Annd. . . breathe. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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