Dr John Yeo and Dr Robert Costa are two men I feel extremely privileged to have met. Co-incidentally, they are both medical men. Dr Yeo is retired now, but he was a highly respected spinal surgeon at Sydney’s Royal North Shore Hospital. I first met him in
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FOLLOWING ON FROM DEVILISH DRUGS. ANOTHER BATTLE IN THE WAR After I left hospital my strength began to return, but the fluid around my heart did not clear as hoped. By April it had actually increased slightly, and surgery became the only option. My surgeon was amazing.
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Continued from PART III – Creepy Answers ‘YOU HAVE CHURG STRAUSS SYNDROME…THERE IS CURRENTLY NO CURE’ Even though I had been informed in the most gentle and empathetic manner, the word ‘incurable’ shocked me to the core. Was Dr Flood joking? Hardly any diseases are incurable these
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FOLLOWNG ON FROM – A MEDICAL MYSTERY It was always an early start to the day at The San, because the cardiologist made his daily ward rounds at 6.00am. My spirits never failed to lift when he appeared. Due to medication I hardly slept and the kindly
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Seven years ago I was seriously ill in a Sydney Hospital with a hideous, undiagnosed condition. It was affecting my brain, my heart, my muscles…. and just about everything else. Part of my stabilizing medication was a very high dose of the steroid Prednisone. Among the side
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Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel. Oliver Wendell Holmes How true that quote is. After my mother died I treasured a cardigan she had worn that retained her special fragrance. It was a
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A RARE AND BAFFLING ILLNESS – CHURG STRAUSS SYNDROME! Churg Strauss Syndrome (CSS) is a form of vasculitis (inflammation of the blood vessels) . It was first described by Jacob Churg and Lotte Strauss at New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital, in 1951. Coincidently, this was the year
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