The Best

I visited the Cardiology Dept this morning at the Royal Berkshire Hospital so they could check up on the ongoing progress of the 'stent'. The transformation is really quite amazing and I enjoyed telling the surgeon the differences it had made. I walked, with two grandsons, around a 2 mile lake last Saturday! Remarkable when you consider that I could not walk 100 yards without acute discomfort and had got to the stage where I needed to sit down after using my battery operated toothbrush!

I thought you might like to hear a some of his comments;

"It is the best one I have ever done. It is a marked success."

"It is the best one my colleague has ever seen."

"It will become one of our slides for future teaching purposes."

Of course, behind the surgeon's hand was another and I am genuinely grateful to both, and to you for your continued prayer.

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The hospital had a bed today so I was able to get in and have the catheter removed under test conditions. All went very well, and I am home... very tired but home.

I now have a series of pelvic floor exercises to do and possibly a fairly long journey to continency. The next event on the calendar will be an appointment with the surgeon scheduled for 6 weeks 'post op'. The removed tissue will have been subjected to lots of tests and I will receive the 'histology' at that appointment. Depending on what they found will determine what future treatment lies ahead.

Again, thank you all so much for your love and prayer avalanches of good wishes. My love to you all