Hey everyone

The good news is that i took out my GPS for the first time today and was prity good. Not overly fast conditions could have been better, but good for a first go aswell and i was really happy with a good day. Even if dad and i went through a sail and a board from catepults. See the GPS sessions thred for more info on that.

Anyway so prity bad info is that in a couple weeks time i will be going to melbourne to have open hear surgery at the womens and childrens hospital over there. It's been on the cards for about a year now and my doctor reckons i now need to go have to have an artificial valve and pacemaker replacement which is no good at all. I had a hear condition all my life for those who don't know so it has always slowed me down a lot in ANY sport and especially now that it's getting close to the surgery i tire out and just get bugged so easily.

Anyway so i will probably be in the actual hospital for bit under a month however will probably be put out of doing anything decent until probably next summer. Won't get to post another GPS session until after that after just one go so i'm a bit annoyed with that. Miss out on sum school for a while lol, but still miss out on a lot of sport, and most importantly windsurfing.

Anyway thats the news so in a couple weeks i won't be round for quite a while anyway. Going to miss it.

Cheers
Bubs

Wish you all the Best Bubs, it must be pretty scary for you, which would be pretty normal and healthy!!!!! With modern surgery today, they should have you good as gold, and you'll be top of the junior rankings within a year or two!!!!

Good luck mate!!!!!!!

As I said today Hamish, good luck with all that and you will come back stronger than ever, plus look on the bright side, yiou can post 200 times a day in you recovery!

Hamish, from the bottom of my heart mate, I wish you all the best.

The good thing is, after you get over the op, you'll be better than new

dude, thats a big thing you are going through.
after everything happens you will wonder what all the fuss was about.

windsurfing is just around the corner for you again, and stay online with us forumites and let us know your progress.

Bubs, wot are you doing up this late??
Go to bed right now or I'll confiscate your computer!

Oh, and the good news is, that the Docs must be 100% sure they can do this without stuffing up.
They do lots of these open heart ops on old folk and occasionally they do stuff up, but then they can just say,.. "This silly old bugga was ready to cark it anyway, so it's not my fault."

In your case however, at 15 they can't use this as an excuse so if they thought there was a chance that it would go wrong they probably wouldn't do it. It would just not look good on their resume.

The other good news is that at your age you will get back on top of it really fast, not like us poor old folk that cough and splutter on for ages.

Anyway, best of luck Hamish.

all the best there with the cardio bussiness. Hope you're out and running amok ASAP.

Bubs, all the best with the op. From what I read of your posts, you've got alot of GO in you, and I'm sure you'll be catapulting and ripping up more sails in no time....but with more vigour!

Hopefully you can get on the net in the hospital. Be thinking of you and looking for your posts on seabreeze. You were so fast yesterday I just got a glimpse

Good luck mate ..had a few issues myself there and now I on the water more than ever

All the best mate, and enjoy the nurses [}:)]

I hope you've got lots of windsurfing vids to while away the time

evlPanda said...

Better go, your nurse is here:

WOW WEE HOOLIE DOOLIES!

Anywho goodluck Bubs

Good luck Bubs...
learn to spell while off ..but don't lose your mischievous sense of humour

Great shot of you sailing windsurfing at Milang

evlPanda said...

Yeah, I've gotta get me one of those GPS thingies, take it out one day on a jetski when everyone's at work ; )

hmmmm.... truly evil.

Better go, your nurse is here:

Is that the nurse or the pacemaker?
I could certainly use some of that... err pace ... err speed ...err forget it.

Good luck Bubs. Speedy recovery.

Wishing you all the best Bubs!!

Mate of mine had a similar thing done and he has had no problems at all and he is an active bloke. He plays tennis and he feels that it dosent limit him at all.

Good luck!