Its Not The Cough That Carries You Off....

 You will have to excuse the fits of spasmodic choking, the spluttering and the sprays of spittle that may come your way in the next few minutes but I have this terrible cough you see.
 Its been about six weeks now and yes I have seen the doctor, the result being

1. two lots of antibiotics
2. one lot of steroid tablets
3. two blue inhalers
4. a brown inhaler
5. a bubble
6. antihistamines
7. codine cough suppressant
8. antacids??
9. an xray
10. appointment to see a chest specialist.

So all in all its cost me close to £100.00 in prescription charges and trips to the hospital where parking costs £4.50 minimum stay of 3 hours..... and I am still coughing like I smoke 100 Camel full strength for breakfast.
My G.P is clueless as to what it could be and has referred me to a thoracic specialist and has suggested a C.T scan. Call me a worrier but the last time I heard of a cough resulting in the need for a C.t scan the guy had part of his lung removed!!

Next Step..

Iron Lung-a lot less fun than Iron Chef.

 Can you believe that this is what people had to go through in the "olden days"!

This got me thinking about the amaizing things that modern medicine can do now, if you need a new lund, heart, liver kidney or a whole host of body parts because yours doesnt work properly it seems all you have to do is get down your local hospital and have a chat with Doc Frankinstien and hey presto there a coolbox with the required "bits" sent down before you know it.

 On T.V recently there has been a program called "The Human Body" and in the last episode there was a guy who was badly burnt when he was trapped in his car as it exploded. He suffered 30% burns on his face but mostly on his hands. After many skin grafts and reconstruction surgery his face was restored back to this side of normal, obviously he still had signs that he had suffered burns but nothing like the horror that he looked after the accident. Unfortunately his hands were so badly burnt that they were barely usable, what was left of his fingers were nothing more than mangled stumps, imagine on a cartoon when you see some-one trap their hand and they pull out a mishmash of fingers all going in different directions then that's what this guys hands looked like.  So when the surgeons offered to sort them out for him he jumped at the chance although they were offering a never before tried procedure, double amputation and two donor hands!! 

 Before he could clap his hands together they had whipped them off and sewn on these "new" hands. Within a few hours he was moving "his" fingers and a few weeks was able to grip and grasp. 

Now was it just me or did it cross your mind too ......just how long did he wait for a little "personal  time"? would it be like some one else doing it for him or more like when you trap your arm and make it numb and have "a quick shuffle"? would it be really weird and would he have to say thank you to his hand donor and maybe put 15 quid in a charity box? 

 Anyways I digress, but it does raise all sorts of issues with accepting and giving donor parts. Would you want to give an alcoholic your liver, a smoker your lungs or a complete wanker your hands!

  

one each?

........Its The Coffin They Carry You Off In!!

Apologies if for at any time during this post I coughed and covered you in spittle, forget Spanish cucumbers people I could be "Patient 1"