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Monday 11th

After driving up to Perth the day before I duly arrive at Murdoch Medical Centre for the angiogram which will of course confirm that I will be OK to jet off to Sydney the next day.

Things didn’t get off to good start as while I am sitting chatting a male nurse before the procedure a huge fracas can be heard from an adjoining corridor. A patient, apparently affected by his medication, has taken a dislike for a member of the medical staff and is calling him every expletive known to man and some I don’t know. It takes 5 minutes to sedate him and as I said to the nurse” if that’s what an angiogram does to you I’m NOT having what he’s having!”

The angiogram takes barely. 30 minutes but it’s long enough for the cardiologist to tell me that the trip is off and I have 80 and 95 per cent blockages in 2 of my arteries.
Putting in stents is too complicated so it’s a triple bypass!
After the usual ” why me?” reactions we start to make plans to see the surgeon the next day.