Welcome to my Heart Blog.

One Persons's journey to a Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG) and hopefully beyond.

I Began this diary while I was sitting in hospital recovering from a quadruple coronary artery bypass graft (CABG). The aim was to track my progress and think a bit more about the National Health Service acute services, what we should appreciate about it and where we might do better.

I stopped writing when there was, frankly, not much else to record. However in June I signed up for a half marathon and thought I would re-open the blog as a training diary. It may even include a few health and exercise tips along the way.

I am neither a health-care professional nor a sports and fitness guru. What I write is no more expert than some of the things you might here from that bloke in the pub, so I take no responsibility for how you might use my ramblings. Be warned!

If you want to you can read the "back story", from hospital to rehab in earlier blog posts. One thing I have learned is that most people are not interested in reading my ramblings so, for those who do, I promise in future to keep them short.

Tuesday, 18 August 2015

Tuesday 4th August. Visit to the Cardiologist

I walk to Whittington hospital, just 18 minutes at the usual "tempo" walk of 6kph.  The consultant asks how I am  and is pleasantly surprised that I had actually had the CABG 5 weeks previously. It seems that the paperwork is stuck somewhere between Barts and The Whittington.  Either that or the surgeon did not bother to write typo the referring cardiologist (on the other hand the CABG was done privately, so perhaps his secretary just forgot to cc the letter sent to my GP).

The Consultant is delighted with my condition.  She wants to see me again, in 9 months!  
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