Morning members and friends. It is with sadness that I have to inform you that @TaliaB had another big blood clot in his right lung. He is in the Netcare Christian Barnard Memorial hospital ICU. Let's us be with him in prayers and thoughts

As and when news is received I will share it here

🙏🙏🙏🙏

Edited January 14Jan 14 by Scorp007

Update from @TaliaB is great news. The blood clot got dissolved a lot quicker than in Mauritius by administering via a drip. He is currently in the high care ward and if all goes well tonight he will be moved to a general ward tomorrow. 🙏🙏🙏

Edited January 16Jan 16 by Scorp007

Thats good news. Thanks for the updates.

That is great news - we pray for a full and speedy recovery.

Morning guys and ladies on the forum. I am feeling much better this morning due to the fact that I am in the medical ward instead of Icu or high care. I just want to take a moment to thank each and everyone for the well wishes and especially @Scorp007 my friend that passed the message on. It is very scary when it happens, can't breath and your heart start racing and you are overcome with anxiety, it goes through your mind is it a heart attack but I thought when it happened it felt like a blood clot same symptom as in Mauritius until I became unconscious. Later semi conscious with all these pipes and monitors. The physician and pulmanologist want to change my blood thinning regime from Xarelto to Warfarin.

Again thanks to all for your support.

God bless

Glad to hear you're on the mend. Here's hoping for many more trouble free years

11 hours ago, TaliaB said:

Morning guys and ladies on the forum. I am feeling much better this morning due to the fact that I am in the medical ward instead of Icu or high care. I just want to take a moment to thank each and everyone for the well wishes and especially @Scorp007 my friend that passed the message on. It is very scary when it happens, can't breath and your heart start racing and you are overcome with anxiety, it goes through your mind is it a heart attack but I thought when it happened it felt like a blood clot same symptom as in Mauritius until I became unconscious. Later semi conscious with all these pipes and monitors. The physician and pulmanologist want to change my blood thinning regime from Xarelto to Warfarin.

Again thanks to all for your support.

God bless

All the best for you in the general ward. Glad to hear from you and thank you for sharing the feelings and all that panned out during the few days.

20 hours ago, TaliaB said:

The physician and pulmanologist want to change my blood thinning regime from Xarelto to 2 glasses of red wine/day

There, I fixed it for you!😄

Glad you are feeling better.

On 2026/01/18 at 9:12 AM, TaliaB said:

I am feeling much better this morning due to the fact that I am in the medical ward instead of Icu or high care.

I know exactly how you feel - it's amazing how many patients manage to survive ICU, not withstanding the medical profession's effort to keep you there 😁 Just joking, of course, but that's how it felt to me every time I had to endure it - tubes everywhere, beeping monitors that are ignored by the staff, lights on 24/7, nurse waking you up at 04:30 just after falling asleep for the first time that night, just to give you a sleeping tablet...

I'm back there on Monday to get a fourth stent in the ❣️

Anyway, glad to hear that you're better - trust that you will be up and about again very soon.

4 hours ago, HennieL said:

I know exactly how you feel - it's amazing how many patients manage to survive ICU, not withstanding the medical profession's effort to keep you there 😁 Just joking, of course, but that's how it felt to me every time I had to endure it - tubes everywhere, beeping monitors that are ignored by the staff, lights on 24/7, nurse waking you up at 04:30 just after falling asleep for the first time that night, just to give you a sleeping tablet...

I'm back there on Monday to get a fourth stent in the ❣️

Anyway, glad to hear that you're better - trust that you will be up and about again very soon.

May the op go as planned and you out real soon. Amazing to experience the short duration via a stent instead of having major surgery. I could see all the videos and talk back while they did my stent.

Glad to hear you on the mend, keep well.

15 hours ago, HennieL said:

I know exactly how you feel - it's amazing how many patients manage to survive ICU, not withstanding the medical profession's effort to keep you there 😁 Just joking, of course, but that's how it felt to me every time I had to endure it - tubes everywhere, beeping monitors that are ignored by the staff, lights on 24/7, nurse waking you up at 04:30 just after falling asleep for the first time that night, just to give you a sleeping tablet...

I'm back there on Monday to get a fourth stent in the ❣️

Anyway, glad to hear that you're better - trust that you will be up and about again very soon.

Thanks for the kind words, hope you all the best for the stent procedure.

Edited January 22Jan 22 by TaliaB

20 hours ago, Scorp007 said:

Amazing to experience the short duration via a stent instead of having major surgery. I could see all the videos and talk back while they did my stent.

Yes, it really is amazing - I joked with a colleague that I will be taking my cellphone into surgery, so he could call me is needed...

Thanks for the good wishes everyone - and apologies to @Scorp007 and @TaliaB for hijacking this thread. Very glad to hear that @TaliaB is recovering well - prayers answered.

Just an update. @TaliaB has been discharged. He will take a well deserved break and relax with family on a farm for a few weeks. We wish him a superb few weeks. 🙏🙏🙏