positive, that he had aids. i had blood transfusion after my second heart bypass operation. that s exactly what happened. contaminated blood. we just set ourselves forward to one step at a time to figure out how we were going to thrive as a family. i really wanted life to just go on as normally as possible. i had always planned to go public at some stage, but there was still a stigma attached to someone who was found out to be hiv positive or had aids. and certainly, if judged by the way some previous aids victims or patients were treated, i didn t want that.
down, the hospital pushes on with the operating list. the urgent patients have gone ahead and we re going to resolve the staffing situation for the second cases to go ahead. i m heading into the anaesthetic suite where consultant uday dandekar s first patient is being prepared for theatre. just oxygen through this mask here. she has been having quite a bit of angina for the last. chest pain for the past few months. it first started in august and it s been getting worse, hasn t it, anne? yes, it has been getting worse. so, you ve had a bit of a wait for this, have you? erm, yes, i have. yes, since august. and erm, yes, with each pain it s more worrying. so it s nice that it s now happening today. anne clapham s heart bypass operation is a priority today. so, her operation has been able to go ahead but others are on hold, is that right? others are currently.
artery. he was in the hospital for a heart bypass operation as you said in 2004. so he has the same problem with cardiovascular disease where his arteries to the heart are closing up. he never had a heart attack, we have to make that leer. 04 he didn t have a heart attack. but she saw there was deterioration of the blood flow if he s having a stint now, it would be for the same condition. how common is it for somebody who s had a bypass to have to go back five, six, ten years later for a stint? it s very, very common. particularly if there s not taking the right drugs properly or not exercising enough or watching the right diet. you could still have a genetic predisposition to have a repeat. is it the sort of thing that you could have chest pain and need an emergency stint procedure. in other words, is it something that is planned? this doesn t sound like this was a planned visit. stints can be done if somebody is either in danger of having a heart attack or in