Echocardiogram

Echocardiogram Harefield Hospital Information

This morning had 8am appointment at Harefield Hospital for an Echocardiogram and blood studies all part of my care plan for Sleep Apnoeas. The long term effect of sleep apnoeas can lead to heart failure, hypertension and stroke. Given I have been showing signs linked to heart failure... Breathlessness on exertion, abdominal bloating, ankle oedema (swelling), fatigue, high blood pressure then my team wanted to assess my heart function. The staff today so lovely felt at ease and in very good healing caring hands. Mind you hospitals have been my career pathway as a Nurse & Midwife.. so strange being in patients gown not scrubs.. 

The echocardiogram was fascinating ..to see my heart the flow of oxygenated blood in graphics red the deoxygenated blood flow in graphics blue.. we tend to do a colour code like this for biological differentiation. In reality oxygenated blood is brighter red than darker deoxgenated blood. Remember your biology red cells haemoglobin carry freshly oxygenated blood from our lungs to send oxygen via our arteries round to all our cells for metabolism. Haemoglobin then carries carbon dioxide by product of metabolic process to lungs via venous system to be exhaled. In brief lol Though there is more complex dynamics going on. 

So my heart pumping action looked at ...left ventricle fill and squeeze for oxygenated blood and right side for deoxgenated flow to lungs. My aorta main artery and vena cava main vein assessed. After to say I was in complete relax Mindfulness while this happening in good hands.

The hospital was calm and quiet early on this Saturday morning. I arrived mega early taking first U7 bus to Uxbridge then U9 bus that goes directly into the hospital. Scroll down to read something extra happened to me ...***

Zoom in on the Hare Art you will notice many objects 

Clever artwork by a patient. 

***Something happened post my examination and blood taking. While I was having coffee in the canteen an audio message came in to me from my Palestinian MSF nurse in Gaza.. the sound of gunfiring around him. I do wish we could save my nurse, his wife and baby daughter from all the horrors.. it seems crazy sat in quiet specialist hospital short of specialist nurses and my nurse with all the specialist experience in cardiology, oncology and trauma could be a very very valuable team member. Yet we could lose him in the attacks on Gaza!  He has taken his career to MSc level and competent in lecturing and conference presentation. Published in the European Journal of Oncology Nursing. A born nurse ... his wife a maths teacher and his daughter needs her life before her with a future to show her talent and place in our world. Not lost to the world. How crazy a situation to be in a place here in West London where life saved to be listening to life being destroyed by leaders that fail to Mature in the Wisdom of Peace and togetherness. 

The Earth our home we share needs a unified caring compassion understanding heartbeat from we humans. Vital signs are showing a need to resuscitate, refresh, reform, regroup and care for our only life support Planet Earth. For that we need Global peace.🕊🌍

Then while waiting for the bus had a video call from my Family Link Up   Syrian Princesses in Belgium who were fascinated by my echocardiogram. Already at their Belgium school they have been taught the beauty of the heart its myogenic muscle that can set up its own pacemaker wave of electrical conductivity to contract and thus pump the heart.  Even my Syrian Princesses could tell me about the P QRS T waves on an ECG .. so excellent teachers in their Belgium school.. note my Princesses little Professors of Linguistics can explain this in Nederlandse English and Arabic ..!!

Professor Sir Magdi Yacoub

Pioneer of Cadio-Thoracic Surgery

Saturday Peace March

 💞🍉🕊🤲🙏despite low energy managed to get into London yesterday to meet up with two Health Visitor peace activist friends from Leicester... Elizabeth line changed at Paddington bakerloo surfaced at Trafalgar square where march of 1000s people passing ..  Connected with my friends by the women in war Memorial Whitehall and then managed to get close to the speakers platform... had time with the Palestinian Ambassador to update on Mo'men Eid and family. Had received a message this morning was a ground offensive attacking around them.  Had time with Humza former SNP Scottish First Minister was able to tell him all the work my nurse done with Dr Philippa Whitford Breast Cancer surgeon on improving breast cancer care  pathway in Gaza ... before all this horror show!  Good to share time with our Jewish peace activists bloc.. time of caring and sharing together. 

Learn more about my Nuse Mo'men and his oncology nursing

Also did a piece to camera Iran TV news ...message how we need Shalom Salem Peace Om Shanti as our Earth cries out for care. We need Leaders Mature in the Wisdom of Peace ..as each missile launched from wherever is an attack on us all .. it adds to climate crisis and we will see more earthquakes, more wild fires and flooding..time for no more wars ..

🙏🤲 Shalom Salem Peace Om Shanti 🙏🤲 

Libelle Leesclub goed boek ..

Visions a must to watch

Channel Four Visions

Loving my new TV that my daughters got me. I can escape the reality horrors of today's news and lose myself in fictional drama. I have found the Walter Presents international dramas so boosting up my languages. Visions is a well crafted storyline and excellent screen production.. the actors powerful in performance.. 

In memory Stephen Lee Ostrowski 🕺

💔🕺🙏🤲🎶Farewell Brave amazing man Steve  that was one heck of a journey cancer put you on ... but all the time helping other patients on their challenging journey ..The Community Cancer Centre in Yiewsley was an amazing patient run centre that you supported..The bravery of the jaw reconstruction you went through ..the pain yet we could have a laugh with your wicked sense of humour..  the greatest Farmville on Facebook lol the playful play with online scammers, your travels speaking Hindi ..and that fun extra part in a Bollywood movie ..the one line ..or was it one word ...lol  I can't remember the film name now ..but the Punjabi store owner in Harmondsworth will know lol he was after your star autograph when he spotted you on the movie.. You were a loyal fan supporter of Hayes & Yeading Football club and your guitar music here on you tube for us to continue enjoy.. RIP  Rest in Peace or will that be Rest in Play .🕺🎶

Music of Stephen Lee Ostrowski

Thoughts with Donna never forget the instant attraction when I brought her round to your place ..lol 💞

 

Good Start October Brunel Uni

 October got off to a good start with more caring and sharing at Brunel University. Our Brunel Older Reference Group seminar was very well attended with retirees from all walks of life, careers and heaps of experience.  We had a good array of researchers presenting their work on the ageing process, health & wellbeing. That wellbeing was recognised as not only physical & mental but social too. 

I was sat near a retired Health Visitor and a retired nurse midwife like myself. Coffee break natters were on our careers and how the NHS has become more fragmented rather than unified. So in my ideas to the researchers I felt we needed to design integrated care pathways. Brunel itself has multidisciplinary departments, now with a medical school as well as nursing, physiotherapy, occupational therapy then the university is in a good position to tackle fragmentation of care. We also identified that there are many private agencies in the NHS which means constant change of clinical staff interacting with patients. This creates a weakness of lack of continuity of care and patients often having to go over history time and time again to establish rapport. 

The researchers also look at maximising wellbeing in the ageing process and we are all grateful for this. We feel listened to and valued. 

Up close & personal Charlie Pappa CPAP

Hhhh 💗😎😊😂💃🕺been getting up close & personal with my new friend Charlie Pappa... my CPAP machine ..the mask and the way to control Charlie ... So best way snuggle up to a day time film together and get switched on ...lol and what better film to watch than an all absorbing French Canadian film .. all the time my activity being remotely monitored by my medical team so was not too naughty 😁😊

Its just a good way of getting to know my new friend in daylight and with some distraction to not focus too much on the mask .. after awhile we actually feel one ...fully merged 😊😁   Pengu my cat even settled to snuggle up with me ...
Been reading information sheet and QR code taken to Harefield team video of instructions..

So feelin me and Charlie Pappa gonna get on real fine now for night time switch on times 😍hhhhhh 💗