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In regards to the "would you recommend us again" I spoke with the PALS service in my local hospital and they said it is because that you can now pick your surgeon and where you go.

 

Yes, that's what I said :)

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@pcstru my hernia is the one at the top of the stomach up into the gullet. Hopefully yours is one of the ones lower down. Try not to worry and go get it fixed.

Thanks. Mine is an Inguinal hernia. I do just need to man up and get on with it!

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I had mine done @pcstru dont worry about it 9/10 people are out a few hours after the aesthetic has worn off.

I had a overnight stay as my leg wouldn't wake up ( thats the other 1/10) I was running with in 6 weeks and did 2 half marathons with in 3 months of having it done :)

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Gas and air is hilarious stuff. When we were in with my wife giving birth to our son, I was sitting close to her and ended up getting rather high on the 'spare' gas and air that she was breathing out! But then again, as I'd clocked up getting on for 40 hours awake that 'day', it didn't take much lol

 

I had gas when I mashed my elbow up after a bike crash. I had the full works - auditory distortions, imagining people in the room, hearing loud rock music that wasn't really there, etc. And of course, talking absolute nonsense.

 

Never say NO 2 N2O.

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Unless your $vehicle insurance ask if you have it. Because saying yes throws your insurance up an absolute premium :p

 

Does it? With pretty much every woman in the country having it when they give birth, I am surprised,

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Gas-and-air is AFAIK chemically the same as Nitrous Oxide :p

 

It is legal to drive a vehicle that has had a nitrous kit attached on the road*. (I don't think you're allowed to actually have a nitrous tank attached if you're on the road.. But even having the kit installed makes your insurance fire up quicker than the toilet bowl after a vindaloo)

 

* My step-uncle before MS took him used to drag race on his motorbike (of course, only on registered tracks/airline strips/etc) but his bike was his normal road bike, too. So he had regular insurance on it etc

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Gas-and-air is AFAIK chemically the same as Nitrous Oxide :p

 

It is legal to drive a vehicle that has had a nitrous kit attached on the road. (I don't think you're allowed to actually have a nitrous tank attached if you're on the road.. But even having the kit installed makes your insurance fire up quicker than the toilet bowl after a vindaloo)

Fair enough, but very few actually carry it around :D

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If you find that wrong, my wife received a feedback letter from Watford General two weeks after she died in there... Luckily I am kind of thick skinned and understand mistakes/oversights can be made. Some people may not have been that tolerant..
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If you find that wrong, my wife received a feedback letter from Watford General two weeks after she died in there... Luckily I am kind of thick skinned and understand mistakes/oversights can be made. Some people may not have been that tolerant..

 

Ouch :(

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Also, was it like you had a choice about the ward? Could you have stayed in a deluxe one for a bit more? Maybe with a sea view?

 

I had a nice sea view over the harbour and a room to myself in Poole hospital the other week and I hadn't even paid for an upgrade ;)

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I had a nice sea view over the harbour and a room to myself in Poole hospital the other week and I hadn't even paid for an upgrade ;)

 

Would have come to see you if I'd known...

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From my experiences of NGH, I wouldn't want to send my worst enemy there let alone family or friends!

 

To be fair - I have no complaints about my stay in NGH - this time round everyone was very helpful, though in the past I have been on wards that were not so good.

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Just as a follow-up, I had the hernia surgery yesterday which apparently went well. Today, it is really rather sore!

 

Glad it all went well. I wish you a speedy recovery :)

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Just as a follow-up, I had the hernia surgery yesterday which apparently went well. Today, it is really rather sore!

 

Hope it all heals well

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