H.a.p.e.

[unhappywanderer]

Since around 1947, millions of lives have been saved and prolonged in the UK by NHS staff such as doctors, surgeons, paramedics and air ambulance crews. However, some lives will have been lost due to a wrong diagnosis, the wrong treatment or simply because an illness had been incurable or an injury too serious.

I was taken by paramedics to a local NHS hospital suffering from hyperventilation following a heart attack. When the doctor came to my bed I told him I suspect H.A.P.E so he said; ''Alright then. We'll get your chest x-rayed''

When the doctor came back to my bedside about four-hours later he told the nurses that I was suffering with H.A.P.E. I then got an injection. I suspect that many people suffer with H.A.P.E, H.A.C.E or A.M.S.

[PantsMAN]

Surely in the UK it would be H.A.P.O

We spell it differently here.

[unhappywanderer]

Surely in the UK it would be H.A.P.O

We spell it differently here.


No. You probably went to dodgy school in Golspie where some Irish teachers neglected to teach you Gaelic.

E is for Edema. O is for Odd.

[Dadie]

High-Altitude Pulmonary Edema

Classification and external resources

ICD (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Statistical_Classification_of_Diseas es_and_Related_Health_Problems)-10 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICD-10) T70.2 (http://apps.who.int/classifications/icd10/browse/2015/en#/T70.2)


ICD (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Statistical_Classification_of_Diseas es_and_Related_Health_Problems)-9 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ICD-9_codes) 993.2 (http://www.icd9data.com/getICD9Code.ashx?icd9=993.2)


High-altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE) (HAPO spelled oedema in British English (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_English))


Dont think we are at high enough altitude at ground level in Caithness for this to be worrisome.

[rogermellie]

No. You probably went to dodgy school in Golspie where some Irish teachers neglected to teach you Gaelic.

E is for Edema. O is for Odd.

it's no wonder you've been beaten up several times in london, i don't think you'd actually be any safer up here

[gardeninginagale]

"You probably went to dodgy school in Golspie where some Irish teachers neglected to teach you Gaelic."


I think that's the most insulting and disrespectful post I have seen here in a long time.

Everyone has problems. Don't spit your bile on this forum.

[unhappywanderer]

"You probably went to dodgy school in Golspie where some Irish teachers neglected to teach you Gaelic."


I think that's the most insulting and disrespectful post I have seen here in a long time.

Everyone has problems. Don't spit your bile on this forum.

Where is your sense of humour?

[PantsMAN]

Dadie has already made the point that in British English it is spelled Oedema.

And the high school in Golspie is a good school

And hey, you really don't want to start trading insults on this board. Unless you want restrained at the Ord.

[unhappywanderer]

Dadie has already made the point that in British English it is spelled Oedema.

And the high school in Golspie is a good school

And hey, you really don't want to start trading insults on this board. Unless you want restrained at the Ord.

O.K Daddy!!!

[gardeninginagale]

Where is your sense of humour?
My sense of humour is very much alive and well. Was your original post intended to be humerous? If so it was in very bad taste. And your comment about school in Golspie is unacceptable, even though you may think it is in some way funny. Check my posts, I do funny. But I do not tolerate a*seholes.

I offer an olive branch, maybe I was too quick to respond, and - though it pains me to say it - I kinda like your posts.

Now, where's your sense of humour?


My family is in Aberdeenshire, and when i go up and down the road, my pee-stop is Golspie. Golspie has a nice, and recently refurbished, public lavvie. Golspie also has a decent fish and chip shop. Golspie is the pit stop of choice, for most travellers who aviod Skiach.

Sorry we got off on the wrong foot.
Mike
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[unhappywanderer]

My sense of humour is very much alive and well. Was your original post intended to be humerous? If so it was in very bad taste. And your comment about school in Golspie is unacceptable, even though you may think it is in some way funny. Check my posts, I do funny. But I do not tolerate a*seholes.

I offer an olive branch, maybe I was too quick to respond, and - though it pains me to say it - I kinda like your posts.

Now, where's your sense of humour?


My family is in Aberdeenshire, and when i go up and down the road, my pee-stop is Golspie. Golspie has a nice, and recently refurbished, public lavvie. Golspie also has a decent fish and chip shop. Golspie is the pit stop of choice, for most travellers who aviod Skiach.

Sorry we got off on the wrong foot.
Mike
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Let by-gones be by-gones.

I know already that there is nothing wrong with Golspie and have been there. No offence whatsoever had been intended but I have to respond somehow to insulting posts too.

[gardeninginagale]

Fair play. All is well with me.
Mike

[PantsMAN]

No offence whatsoever had been intended but I have to respond somehow to insulting posts too.

The implication being that my post (#2 above) was insulting.

Can't see it myself. Maybe pedantic, but that's my particular albatross...

[unhappywanderer]

The implication being that my post (#2 above) was insulting.

Can't see it myself. Maybe pedantic, but that's my particular albatross...


Oedema comes up as a spelling error on some websites Daddy. Doctors don't understand H.A.P.O so I stuck to H.A.P.E although the difference is about the same.

[unhappywanderer]

T70.2 (http://apps.who.int/classifications/icd10/browse/2015/en#/T70.2)


993.2 (http://www.icd9data.com/getICD9Code.ashx?icd9=993.2)




High-altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE) (HAPO spelled oedema in British English (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_English))


Dont think we are at high enough altitude at ground level in Caithness for this to be worrisome.

A low air pressure system passing over Thurso or Wick can cause lung and trachea retraction manifesting as an asthma-like attack. This is because air is sucked skyward and away from you. If you are sleeping when a depression passes overhead then you could suffer other nocturnal events or simply awake feeling very depressed.

[sids]

Oedema comes up as a spelling error on some websites Daddy. Doctors don't understand H.A.P.O so I stuck to H.A.P.E although the difference is about the same..

Congratulations. You are illiterate in your native language.

[unhappywanderer]

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Congratulations. You are illiterate in your native language.

Exactly! That is why I must move to Wick so that I can be educated about Scotch!!!

[Dadie]

Want a big wooden spoon?
Have one for sale cheap!
Scotch you drink ...Scottish we speak.
There again from your posts ....maybe you need to drink more scotch and lighten up a tad or two.
A few drams of the good stuff might help!

[sids]

Want a big wooden spoon?
Have one for sale cheap!
Scotch you drink ...Scottish we speak.
There again from your posts ....maybe you need to drink more scotch and lighten up a tad or two.
A few drams of the good stuff might help!

With his heart condition, a dram might finish him off, which would be a really big shame.

[Dadie]

Would it work?
There are a lot (thousands)of single malts to choose from if you take in age/cask/distillery/year etc..some might finish him off just by price alone!
Might be a happier way for him to go though.......:D

[golach]

Exactly! That is why I must move to Wick so that I can be educated about Scotch!!!We drink Scotch, we speak Scots, get it right

[unhappywanderer]

Would it work?
There are a lot (thousands)of single malts to choose from if you take in age/cask/distillery/year etc..some might finish him off just by price alone!
Might be a happier way for him to go though.......:D

I have had the pleasure of sampling whiskies galore in Scotland many times, particularly at Oban, Wick, Thurso, Edinburgh and the SLEEPERZZZ place at the train stop before Golspie. If I want to finish me off then I simply sleep at high altitude on one of your hills armed with a bottle of Drambuie and my heap of tablets supplied by the NHS at your expense. Have another nice day!

[Dadie]

Its pretty flat in Caithness ...so which hill or tussock will you choose?
Morven is the highest hill for miles(not sure but think it isn't high enough for mountain or even munro status) and it is in Sutherland!

[sids]

We drink Scotch, we speak Scots, get it right

"Scotch," as an adjective, was good enough for Robert Burns. If you have some sort of higher literary standards, that's great, obviously.

[laguna2]

Last time I looked at a map, Morven was in Caithness. Or is it half and half?