OT: The Bean revealed

Thank you for that, the included photograph was helpful.

I had known from some comments he had made here that Mr Bean was also a member of the Monday evening model engineering class I attend at Trowbridge College, but I had not previously identified which member of the class he was.

I don't know if he missed last Monday's class through being arrested - I was having my first heart attack at the time. It creeps up on you. I guess I've joined some new kind of club now.

But damn, I can't stop laughing!

Not the sort of club that you want to be in for long if you can help it....

Hope it was nothing too serious and you are OK now?

Peter

No ..

Yep, fine now (or nearly) thanks. A bit freaked still.

It wasn't a myocardial event, where the blood supply gets blocked, so no permanent damage should ensue, which is good.

Unfortunately they can't say exactly what did happen, even though I had another attack in the Hospital while actually hooked up to a ECG machine - which is driving me slightly batty!

I'm told it was probably caused by a small pocket of infection, which they detected using a really quite impressive imaging sensor and a radioactive injection. So with luck it won't happen again, fingers crossed.

The sensor didn't look that impressive, except for being a block of solidness about two feet in diameter and a litte over a foot thick and weighing so much that not only was it counterbalanced but it needed motors to move it around, but boy the results were detailed!

You could see every tiny little vein. especially amazing when you consider it took about a minute to take each picture, during which I was breathing and my heart was beating, and the electronics detected that motion and compensated for it.

No making kids for eight weeks though. Not that I had planned to, but ..

If you need a 'stand in'...I'm sure the good members ( 'scuse pun ) of the NG would be only too happy to oblige ;)

Hope you make a swift and full recovery.

Regards,

All the best to you in your recovery!

I know the feeling, sort of. Ten radiotherapy sessions down, 27 more to go (prostate cancer)!

Steve Rayner.