Hell Razor5543 wrote:I have no idea what you went through, but my cousin Robert might. Quite some time back he had a bad case of splitting headaches. Upon investigation, the following operation removed a growth the size of a plum tomato from his sinuses.
Not sure where Copa is, but I know of the other 3. The Lyndhurst is only a mile from me.
I think the Copa is now called the Outlook, it's on Kings Road on the right coming away from town and has a terrace over the river, so, rather obviously, it is where Kings Road goes over the river...
Mine was a nosebleed that wouldn't stop. I managed to sort of stop it, went back to sleep, it started again. Waited an hour or so, went to A&E. I had a balloon thing stuffed up my nose and inflated (weird!) then they tried to put a cannula in as I might need a transfusion as I looked pale and they thought I'd lost a lot of blood. Of course, 12 pints of Guinness, 3 Jagerbombs and a quantity of rum, with 4 hours sleep and no food after would make anyone look pale..... anyway, I refused to let them as I knew from experience I hadn't lost that much (and all the blood tests and BP tests proved me right). They kept me in overnight as I had the balloon thing up there. I shared a room with a bad snorer and a poor guy with cancer who sounded like Darth Vader (tracheotomy) so I slept just wonderfully - I get terribly stressed in hospitals anyway. Anyway, saw a doctor on bank holiday Monday, she wanted the thing to stay up my nose for at least another 12 hours, so that was me in on Monday night as well.
As I went for a shower on Tuesday morning with the thing up my nose, I happened across my expensive private surgeon, who also does NHS stuff, doing his rounds in the Royal Berks ENT. He seemed most surprised to see me standing in front of him with the thing up the nostril he used to operate on my sinuses.... remember I've been back to see him countless times for the pain, and had a CT and MRI scan since the op. He said "oh, Mr. Pearson, I'll catch up with you later"... I simply started at him and said "I told you it was (-expletive removed-) sore" and walked off. I did not see him again, another ENT doctor came and took it out, had a look up there, then decided it needed cauterizing, so I had that to put up with - not painful as they stuck a load of spray anaesthesia up there. Left me about 4 hours to check it really had stopped, then sent me home. It hurt a lot when the spray wore off though!
I have not bought another French car. I have a DRK in bits on the drive with a knackered wheel cylinder. That's bad enough. I have to fix it by Wednesday or I can't get to work!
