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Post by thevon on Aug 16, 2007 19:34:11 GMT 10
Many of you know Alan (Livefibre) from Redcliffe - who's been an enthusiastic supporter of this forum - had a massive brain aneurysm (burst blood vessel in the brain) a week ago and nearly died. He was in intensive care and is now in Ward 8A South at RBH. His wife Wendy just phoned me and it's been a pretty bad week but Alan's talking and recovering. She passed the phone over to him and I chatted with him. He's suffering a lot of head pain and will take a lot of rehabilitation. We were saying that he won't be flying for a while, but I told him I would like to get a radar gun and that he might have to be the chief radar recorder, which got a laugh, which was nice. If anyone has time to visit him I'm sure he'd appreciate it and it would do him good.
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Post by ding on Aug 16, 2007 20:03:18 GMT 10
WOW that's bad news. Poor bugger. Hopefully he gets on the mend soon.
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Post by callun on Aug 16, 2007 20:43:36 GMT 10
Not wrong - that's pretty dam serious! I'd pop in given the chance but I'm crook atm and the last thing he needs is a wog.
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Post by thevon on Aug 28, 2007 7:47:59 GMT 10
I rang Alan yesterday, to see how he's going. I thought he'd be home by now but he only got out of ICU a few days ago. He had several operations to seal up the burst blood vessel in his brain, but it was all done thru one of those long thin scopes that they feed up your blood vessels from your groin, all the way up!
He feels like he's having some memory problems but sounds OK. I said to him the hardest part must be giving up smoking! But he reckons that's not too bad and he has a patch. Hopefully he'll get home soon and I'll visit him, hopefully soon we can put him in the car and take him out for a fly, or at least to watch.
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Post by st on Aug 28, 2007 8:23:59 GMT 10
Man that sounds bad  Hope things improve quickly. |
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Post by jase on Aug 28, 2007 9:01:49 GMT 10
it's called a "stint" isn't it andrew?
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Post by ding on Aug 28, 2007 18:22:21 GMT 10
it's called a "stint" isn't it andrew? I'm not a doc but I thought a stent was a thing they put in vessels to hold them open. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StentEither way I hope Alan gets well soon and can enjoy that lovely family of his. Hopefully he'll get out and we can have another go at putting a dent in his jeep.  |
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Post by callun on Aug 28, 2007 23:33:00 GMT 10
Pass on my best wishes please Andrew. Is he able to have visitors?
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Post by thevon on Aug 29, 2007 7:30:51 GMT 10
Yep, definitely - can have visitors. He has his mobile there and I rang him on that.
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Post by joey on Aug 29, 2007 20:15:57 GMT 10
Hey every one its alans son Joelan,
He came home today from the hospital and all is well but hes very sleepy
.he got 3 coils inserted into a arterie inside his brain to stop the bleeding. overall dad had surgery 3 times
any questions ask ME!
and thankyou every one for the wishes
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Post by thevon on Aug 29, 2007 20:46:42 GMT 10
Just had a call from Joelan and Alan - he's back home today, but will be recovering for some time. He's keen to get back up to the hills sometime soon, just to watch for a while!
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Post by callun on Aug 29, 2007 21:47:02 GMT 10
No need to rush things of course. Brain surgery isn't to be sneezed at  |
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Post by ding on Sept 3, 2007 7:45:51 GMT 10
It was great to see Allan and family out there yesterday afternoon on a visit |
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Post by thevon on Feb 22, 2008 11:44:29 GMT 10
Just an update guys. I had a call from Alan on Wed night. He'd just been in that day for his big medical tests. They had been saying that the aneurysm didn't look good, that it was leaking and he would have to be operated on, and it was risky.
On Wed they fed the scope wire up from his groin, thru his heart, and into his brain. Unlike last time when he was doped out, this time he was really conscious and able to watch the whole thing! A ring of high definition monitors showing images of his skull, the brain in 3-D and so on. He could see the coils in the aneurysm lump, that were put there before. Then the wire going up, the dye flowing out and so on. They were rotating the view as they worked! Really freaky to watch. Amazingly, a world expert surgeon in this field who was visiting from the UK co-worked on the procedure on Alan that day. It took hours.
But the miracle is that at the end, they told him that it has scarred up nice and solid, and there's nothing more to do. He's in the clear. Pretty emotional stuff.
So I think we can expect a rebound reaction from Alan - he's been under the restriction of staying within an hour from RBH for months (which he's disobeyed on occasion ..) but I'd say he'll soon be out tearing up the sky at Pedwell Rd and elsewhere to make up for lost time!
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Post by felix on Feb 22, 2008 17:37:10 GMT 10
that's great news!!! been waiting to hear the outcome.sincere congratulations to allan and his family.
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Hope things improve quickly.
