Fed up - Can any medics cheer me up?

Lol! I was the same when I was bed ridden for a couple of weeks with pleurisy, which was really painful. That was when my addiction to UKL took a hold....

I will probably sound really thick here but was is pleurisy?

You're right, only the parietal pleura is sensitive to pain.

And yet you say you're not a medic!

Yes, Daveo, you are right. Visceral pleura is only innervated by the sensory fibres carried with sympathetics, which refer pain to the relevant dermatome associated with the spinal level of their origin.

Wow, that sounds like I know something! I don't.

What year are you cos if your first year i'm scared......

Yeah they cut you open push it back and then put some mesh there to stop it happening again. My grandpa had it when he was my age and again again when he was 83, its genetic and the doctor said it nearly always is genetic.

The danger is that the bowels can be become trapped.

The doctor has arranged to for to have an emergency operation so it probably will be in a few weeks time unless I get pain from it I would hae to have it down straight away. There is normaly a 6 month waiting list but mine is too serious for that.

It shouldn't be a problem hopefully but the timing could not be worse. Also my summer holiday plans will have to be put on hold as I won't be able to get insurance until the operation is done.