Tagged: hospital

Final Race Prep – Trip to A&E Wasn’t in the Plan 4

Final Race Prep – Trip to A&E Wasn’t in the Plan

Those of you who know me or read this blog regularly will know that I’ve been training hard for triathlons this year. The weekend just gone was the first  of two big races I had planned so everything had been gearing up ready for the weekend. Training had been going well, I’d put in the hard work,...

How easy is easy? 1

How easy is easy?

So, how easy is easy? When a cardiologist says take it easy what do they mean? For me, taking it easy would be a nice easy 10 mile mountain mike ride at a steady pace. Somehow I don’t think they mean that. They’re probably used to talking with the majority of the population and take...

Another Hospital Visit 1

Another Hospital Visit

The flu I had at SITS kept coming and going and then I had some chest pains so went to the doctors expecting to get some antibiotics for a chest infection. He did an ECG in the surgery and then sent me up to A&E for some blood tests. At A&E a very strange, but...

Unexpected visit to Bronglais Hospital 5

Unexpected visit to Bronglais Hospital

I had the unexpected pleasure of spending a couple of days in the Cardiac Monitoring Unit at Bronglais Hospital last week. I had some pains in my chest on Wednesday which got worse overnight and didn’t improve on Thursday. Normally I’d put such things down to a pulled muscle or some other injury sustained whilst,...