March 2020 Archives

Keyhole surgery 100% successful

Part 1.

On Match 20th I had keyhole surgery to repair the aortic arch.

The lining had peeled off the wall. This happens when the lining develops a tear due to (in my case) childhood and later stress. Then, blood is pumped thru the tear and thus between the lining and the wall. Where the blood ought to go is called the 'true lumen' and when it's behind the lining and thus where is should not be - which is the bad news - , is called the 'false lumen'. So it's blood pressure in the false lumen whic…

About Ron Savage

user-pic I try to write all code in Perl, but find I end up writing in bash, CSS, HTML, JS, and SQL, and doing database design, just to get anything done...