Health

  • Surgery and Hospital Stay

    So I am getting around to writing up my journey so far, I just have not had the inclination to do any writing about my Cancer, and so this will bring things up to date as of my surgery and I promise to get some other post wrote over the next couple of weeks, just

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  • PFC

    PFC

    So here we are, a brief account of where we are so far as I have kept things out of the general populous as I wanted a close family of mine to get to hear personally and not through social media. Back in May of this year so I went to get my prescriptions renewed

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  • Voltbike Yukon 750

    Voltbike Yukon 750

    Well, my new bike arrived, it’s a eBike, Voltbike Yukon 750. This is a first pre-review, there will be some further reviews Great looking bike, ordered it on June 14th, but took almost 3 weeks to get here, Voltbike maybe busy, but they need to set better expectations when it comes to delivery and better

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  • 1 Year On

    So this is Jenn and I on a 5km run this evening, sadly I lost the details of the run on my watch as I forgot to save it. This time last year I thought I had a bad chest cold that was causing me to be breathless going up the stairs at work and

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  • Warm Run

    #beatyesterday #garmin May look cold but what actually a pretty warm run. Nice Starbucks Juniper Latte at the end.

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  • Getting There

    Getting There

    It has been 14 weeks today since I had my bypass surgery, on one hand it seems such a long time a go, but on the other some of it feels like yesterday, just looked at my watch and they where probably about to cut me open at about now, well as I type this.

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  • Ward Pt II

    Ward Pt II

    **I had written this post a while back but slipped into the “not blogging” state of mind and so I have wrapped this one up for anyone out there who is following.** Monday 6:15am, door to room opens and light goes on, its Dr Lam doing her rounds, she checked my leg and incision and

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  • “The Ward Pt I”

    “The Ward Pt I”

    So here we go, with an IV pole between by legs, a porter pushing and Jenn packing all my personal belongings, we headed up to the ward. This is the place I would be staying until my discharge, so you could say it was step on to discharge. The Cardiac Ward is pretty large with

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  • UP and Down in ICU

    UP and Down in ICU

    It has taken me a while to get back to the blog, I have just not felt the urge to write anything and only now, 10 days after surgery, starting to feel human again. So I thought I would give you are quick update of what went on after my surgery, Jenn did a great

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  • D Minus 3 – The Nitty Gritty

    So today is the nitty gritty of the procedure, the Mazankowski, the hospital I will be in, has an amazing resource on what to expect before, during and the all important after. This post will not be for the squeamish, expect some pictures and detailed explanation of what they will be doing to this body

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  • So today was all about the pre-clinic, a time to meet lots of people and lots of new information to take in. We arrived a little early and struggled to find the place we needed to go, but eventually found the registration desk where we gave info and was given a restaurant like coaster they

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  • So today was my last day at work as well as a travel day to Edmonton, we where able to leave a little early and managed to get to the AirBnB a little earlier as well even going via the Apple store to pick up my Air Pods, my treat for going through what I

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