Angina and Me

Angina Man Gets Angry

It's so stupid and can shorten your life. Even though I knew better I got so annoyed that not only did the dickhead from British Gas park in my parking space, he also drove over freshly laid tarmac. He didn't ask to park there. Didn't say 'oops sorry...'

So how did I use my new angina plan technique you may ask?

Well, dear reader, I screwed up my face and muttered a lot but I resisted the urge to kick his headlights in and address him in my best Anglo Saxon. learned at the University of Chadwell Heath.

But I had got angry and it was stupid of me.

However, if he comes back again......


More than one thing in common....

Over the last couple of months I'd got to know a guy called Robert who attends the same cardiac fitness session as me. Good guy. Fitter than me, but they all are. 

On Tuesday, by chance, I heard him mention that he had worked for the same car rental company as me. Avis. 

Turns out that we had worked together. Probably 40 years ago. He had seemed sort of familiar - there was something about the voice, perhaps. I had wondered if our paths had crossed in the past but then dismissed the thought.

Well we hadn't recognised one another but we do now have more than one thing in common and it's not just angina.  

I wonder how many old friends and colleagues have passed by over the years and I didn't know.....


Casualty Last Night...

OK, I know it's a soap, and yeah I know it's crap, but for a medical based series the piece about angina was misleading and possibly dangerous. Angina is an indication of an underlying serious condition and can't be treated with just 'oh we sent him home with a GTN spray and Ramipril, and he'll be fine'.