robin news B2/11

actually there's no news - mrs robin is still in residence, mr robin brings snacks - we can expect hatching in a couple of days

meanwhile good news on the human health front - my ticker is almost back to normal - i saw the consultant today and he says the latest MRI and Echo show that normal activity has resumed - the clots are all cleared up and the muscle is recovering - i'm still getting some pain and shortness of breath but he reassured me that this will improve as the muscle strengthens - so i am much relieved, especially as i also get to stop taking so many pills


very late addition (august 2017)
almost three years on and time for a bit of an update:

• my follow up appointments, after discharge but before the above post, confirmed the diagnosis as stress induced cardiomyopathy/Takotsubo Syndrome
• i have continued to experience chest pain of a different type - more of a sharp localised pain at the base of my sternum or to it's left, more like the pain i have intermittently experienced for decades identified as Tietze's syndrome/costochondritis
• another episode of chest pain and shortness of breath, like the initial episode but milder, took me back to A&E in september 2016, this was dismissed as "reflux" to my disgust and disbelief - a few days later my own GP referred me to the Rapid Access Chest Clinic and further scans followed - not significant abnormality has shown up but i am not fully reassured and am taking things cautiously

 i have now found a support group, after hearing an item about Takotsubo on the radio - relieved to hear that my symptoms are not uncommon and that research is happening here and elsewhere