Ciarán

I ended up back in three months ago to get a procedure done and they put two stents into my kidneys, one in each kidney.

And I came home and the next day I knew there was something wrong.

But I didn't know that I had the stents put in because it was so cold that the surgeon said I was talking to you.

But obviously, I was still sedated quite a bit.

I couldn't remember that.

But I do remember the whole journey from the day I went in to the day I came out to the time I went down to ICU.

And that's a very frightening experience.

You know, so that affects as an awful thing to walk.

But again, I was in agony right up to two weeks ago.

I was back in.

for surgery again three procedures done and I was put out for two and a half hours and what really happened to me there is my bladder has sunk and it doesn't work proper so I have a catheter which I've had since I came out of the hospital and that's a mental torture thing as well it's super terrible with that but the procedure I got two weeks ago on the Tuesday I was in and I have my pain is halved to what it was with the surgery because what I got done was

botox into my um bladder okay that's what they go that's the future that's the future for me but the the support that you get off people is amazing and the hospitals are you know yeah there's no way to even thank them they're absolutely incredible workers yeah and you know i i i couldn't thank them enough and i got a lovely letter off from saying help

great of a patient I was and all that crap, but that doesn't really matter.

Yeah, it is indeed, yeah.

When I was in the care home, I'm a musician and I got my guitar brought in and my whistles and that and we'd go down to the day room and sing a few songs for all the patients there.

Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

Playing the piano.

You know, Ciarán, one of the things

Even when I'm talking to you now, right, if I make a phone call, because lots of phone calls are made to get things sorted out after they come out.

Yeah.