Sorry this promised update on my attempt to join the SGK is rather late. In the middle of everything I had to have a broken wisdom tooth removed which was quite traumatic!......Stitches out tomorrow!....
Anyway, I was eventually accepted on to the Health Programme but it was far from a straightforward procedure. After counting up the amount of hours, it eventually took me, it was twenty seven!.....
Granted, there were complications like needing to have an MRI Scan but it was a time consuming and lengthy process, most of it consisting of hanging about.
The MRI Scan proved my theory that the abnormality that was thrown up in the chest X-Ray on my left lung, was in fact scarring due to a bout of pneumonia four years earlier and not deemed to be a problem
However, it also picked up an aneurysm on the Aortic Artery and I am to see A Cardiologist at the Devlet tomorrow to find out exactly where it is, Heart, Chest, Stomach?....I currently don't know the size or severity of the aneurysm
As I've been allowed to join the SGK I'm banking on the aneurysm being small and only needing yearly monitoring. I'm sure had it been about to blow I would have been whipped into Hospital and my Credit Card demanded toot sweet
