Sheffield and the Minimaze - the Saga continues - October 2025
THE NEXT TRIP TO SHEFFIELD To continue my saga – remember I had just had precisely SIX days warning of going into the Northern General Hospital in Sheffield for a Minimaze/Hybrid ablation with Mr Hunter. That phone call was itself only 12 days after my consultation-cum-premed! We drove to Sheffield on the Sunday and were, naturally, hours early. We sat on a brick wall overlooking the carpark and had a packed lunch. We know how to live!! Hubby took me up to the ward and stayed for a bit before going off to exile in a Premier Inn. It was all very unrushed and friendly – got chatting and laughing with the three other ladies in the ward – well, once they worked out that I was not a “Southern Snob” and I tuned my ear in to their accents! The anaesthetist came around really late, probably around 8 pm. He was a jolly man but seemed surprised when I said I was having both the Minimaze (or what they call a “surgical ablation”) AND a us...