He's got Kidney Failure, he was due to play in the UNICEF game in a couple of weeks time but had to pull out. This was him today -
Not for kidney failure you wouldn't. One of my mates is a doctor who has worked in both the NHS and private. Apparently if you stay overnight in a private hospital and have an emergency, the standard procedure is for them to dial 999 and let the NHS sort it out. They don't even have trained nurses on call overnight - so the cleaning staff have to sort you out if you piss yourself...
Maybe depends on the hospital. When I had my knee op privately there were definitely trained nurses overnight.
He's got that moonface that steroids give you. He must have had to take a lot of the ****. Looks like he's getting better though.
Hope they gave you a good sponge bath! Big difference between a knee op and a kidney failure - if your knee packs up in the middle of the night you can probably wait until morning to see a doctor.
Absolutely correct. Anyone who needs a major operation should have it in an NHS one. Especially one that can give rise to serious post op complications. In an NHS hospital, a consultant surgeon has the back up of the most experienced "junior doctors" in the world. Highly motivated senior registrars and registrars with several years experience. And a nursing staff from Sisters downwards. In a private hospital, you'll have a non motivated generalist doctor whose career has stalled and a nursing staff able to deal with the wishes of the patient but unlikely to recognise and deal with major complications. And if there are complications, all private hospitals refer immediately to the nearest NHS one ! No brainer for me. I'd never have a major op in a private hospital unless I really have no choice.
You wouldn't expect a former sports star who still looks in pretty decent shape for a guy in his 40s to end up with kidney failure. I'd imagine he's lead a pretty healthy lifestyle. Kidney problems really aren't good especially if you end up on dialysis, i have a friend who was on it for years before he had a transplant, and it was really draining on his body, your blood pressure drops so low that your dizzy for the rest of the day afterwards, and you usually have 3 five hour sessions of it a week. So it's very tough to go through. Hopefully Coles problems aren't that serious, and he makes a speedy recovery. Luckily he probably has 2 kidneys, so he can just take good care of the other 1. My mate wasn't that lucky as he was born with just the 1, and he didn't know it until things started going wrong with the 1 he had.
