This week my newly eighty year old mother went into hospital to have a wire removed from her knee-capi broken two years ago after a fall in the ice and snow. Then she ended up in intensive care due to the doctors not knowing about her acid reflux problems: she inhaled some stomach acid.
She was rather worried about this weeks minor op in case she needed another general anaesthetic and the same thing happened again. Well, they managed to do it with just a local anaesthetic, but discovered in the process that she didn't have acid reflux anymore so needn't have worried.

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