I'm back

Woo Hoo 🎉

Mat, I am incredibly happy to hear that you're doing better again. Especially with the sense of smell! I remember you talking about it in the Scratch and Sniff showcase (thanks for that by the way, found a new great genre to listen to when I want to chill!) and hearing that, all of the sudden, your sense of smell and taste have returned to normal in almost 10 years made me smile. I am not really a person for parasocial relationships, and lets be honest, I am just one of the billions of people on the internet. But for some reason, your videos have been comforting me for years now. It's been awesome seeing your journey from "channel just showing off nixie watches" to "genuinely respected big channel other people just kinda know". In fact, I must admit, you really have infected me with the whole audio format stuff... Got my first minidisc portable and home player... Been minting my own discs to take with me like a "reverse hipster" for some time now, too. So I suppose I have to thank you for that as well! I was so worried about your health quite a lot and I genuinely had the feeling that if something went wrong, I could've lost one of my favourite YouTubers. Glad to hear you are doing better and are "back to your old self". Nice sweater, by the way. Love the new look! Keep it up! - Matti

Glad you are feeling batter ! :)

No "Feel like you're dying diet?" I was just thinking it was a great idea. :) What an ordeal. But, you look great now, Mat. Best wishes for you, buddy. It's great to have you back!

Tongue in cheek: You and the 8-bit guy share having a back garden studio, and given you're a Northerner, I'm wondering if you're close enough to Colin Furze to collaborate on an underground bunker build from your studio?

Hi Mat. You've been a part of my life for almost 10 years now, and I'm very grateful that things seem to be going back to normal. It was heartbreaking to watch that video of yours and realize something was not or had definitely not been okay. 10 years! I've gone to college, finished, started businesses, swapped relationships around several times, moved cities — and, yet, you have been there all throughout. That's something! 🙂 I subscribed just so I could leave you this message and send your my support. Thank you for all you've been bringing to Youtube, and here's to much more! Much love from Portugal!

Mat, glad you are feeling better and sending you all the best. You’re a champ!

Congrats on coming back home! You sound great and I hope youre feeling great too! Lovely to see you again.

Hello, Mr Techmoan. I wish you a speedy recovery. I've watched your videos for a long while now. Your soothing tones helped me get over a couple of years of really bad anxiety, and I'm greatly appreciative of that. You weren't the only reason I got better, obviously. But you definitely helped! And, more than once, you've forced me to crack a smile exactly when I needed to. Here's to many more years of Techmoan!

Most people who get strep catch it in the hospital. What you describe sounds like you went in with covid or a variant of it and caught strep. You could write a book called The covid strep diet plan. Some group of sadists may be interested in it.

Your sense of taste and smell coming back is amazing!! Congrats!

Grateful for the update Matt. Can't wait to see how the new studio develops as you get fully set-up. Congratulations on getting the taste/smell back!!! That is huge. Definitely something most people don't appreciate unless they've experienced going without.

I'm really happy for you. which is weird, isn't it? I don't know you, but I've been watching you for ages and I sort of feel like I know you and how rubbish your sinus stuff has been. but it's obvious you are very happy right now, and that's great! great news!

WELCOME BACK! 🎈 So pleased for you and the missus that you're feeling like yourself again. And I'm just chuffed to bits that your smell and taste has come back as a side effect of all this! Happy Easter 🐣

Good to see you feeling better Mat - wishing you well

Welcome home Mat. So glad to hear you're doing so well. Cheers, Nick.

Is shredded crispy beef made crispy first and then shredded, or it shredded first and then made crispy?

So good to hear. I had tears in my eyes watching the video.

If you gave me an audio clip from a year ago and one from now I’d have a hard time picking out which one was which. You are sounding much better. My father ended up in the hospital with sepsis last year after having a routine surgery and a totally separate emergency surgery. It was quite a scary time but he seems to have almost fully recovered. His stamina was one of the things he had the hardest time with. You scared me with the Steve Jobs outfit lol. Welcome back home!

Such great news to hear, let's hope you stay well and your taste is back to stay, you can now go back and see what all those tinned breakfasts really taste like now 😄

The misses sounds wonderful, I love your sense of humor and I'mglad you're doing better, it was really getting scary for a moment there. And I am so glad to be a part of this patreon just to support you and to get these updates. You really have a knack for making everything interesting. Thanks for all you do, and we're rooting for you.

So relieved to see you're back home. The wife and I have loved watching your content for over 10 years and we've been so worried for your health. All the best from a fellow Manc and a Finn.

I'm so happy to hear how well you're doing. Thanks for the update and eat up!

Glad you're back in the saddle Mat. I love your sense of humor and the technology that you share with us on your channel. It's a niche I have not found anywhere else! Please make sure you 'take it easy' a little bit! You've been through a lot!

It may be strange to hear and hard to process, but we love you and we need you (we’re the clingy types)! Probably no one happier to have you back than Mrs. Techmoan. All the best to both!

It’s really good to see you’re back home and on the mend.

Thanks for showing us your new hot amazon muff

This is wonderful news, and I'm so glad you are on the mend!

Thanks for the good news! And you got your sense of taste back, I'm so glad for you. Please send some muffs to Mimi in the opera "la Bohème". She's about to die, this is sad.

So glad to hear that it was nothing serious. But I wonder how someone would get that illness.

You look and sound so much better! I think you should now revisit every tasting segment you've done to see if you stand by the noodles now you can taste them!

Also your dark and cynical sense of humour is excellent. Do not stop it.

Glad you're back. Stay well, and know you're on our minds! You look so much thinner.

welcome back, please take some time to rest up

One thing though... sudden weight loss... the liver, that is caused by the liver. You know, after they have that sorted out and there is nothing in the way anymore, nothing that could even turn malignant, only after then i would be in a hurray mood.

Guess who's back, back again? Mat, he's back, say ra-men! Great to see you looking and sounding so well, Mat. I know you have other investigations to be completed, but what a relief it will be to know that a cause for something has been identified, and that it is something that can be tackled. I hope the recovery continues apace, and I wish you many tasty meals that satisfy all the senses - you've a lot of time to make up for in that regard.

So good to see you looking so well. Thrilled to hear that your senses of taste and smell are back - but you know what this means, right? You’re going to have to re-review all those noodles.

AWESOME! It's like you're on an intergalactic cruise in your office!

Great to see you home and looking so much better! Hoping for good news on the liver.

One of those rare cases where liver lesions from a streptococcus blood infection would be the absolute BEST news. Sending positive thoughts Mat!

Great news! Glad to see you up and about.

Glad to see you

Good to see you home mate. All the best to you 😊

Yay, Mat! That’s great that you’re home and able to enjoy food again. I hope everything continues onward and upward. ❤️

Amazing transformation- you look so much better, hope the good news and progress continues. Inspired by your video, I’ve just had some salt and pepper chicken and so crispy chilli beef.

There once was a guy called Mat He was a very funny chap His blood went astray And we all said Heyyyyy?!? Such a relief to now have him back. (100% AI FREE)

Glad to hear it! Starting to look like you're on the other end of this stuff.

Such a relief to get a very positive update on your health and may this continue. I am very happy for you Mat.

Welcome home, so glad you're feeling better! I hope you get some positive news about the liver soon. The NHS is a wonderful organization with fantastic people, if only they could be given the funding and resources they need. Regarding your head, it's a very good head and I think it should remain attached to your shoulders, so no more talk of that.

Welcome home Mat! You know you've had a hell of a year, when the good news is that the strep infection that deranged your blood might also be the cause your liver issues! Thank you for keeping us posted, and don't go the Hemingway route. Anyone patient enough to calmly disassemble decades old mechanisms just to replace an inaccessible belt or failed capacitor, can handle anything! Techmoan and Carry On...

So glad you're doing better, and hopefully that liver business really does with out to be nothing serious. You're definitely looking (and sounding) better!

It’s wonderful that you’re feeling so much better, Mat. And I only realised on second viewing that “home ward” is a pun on ‘homeward’ (isn’t it?).

Good to have you back, now please crack on with the following: 1. Take apart that wristband and show us what chip is inside there. Remove black blob if necessary. 2. Track down the makers of the tablet app and scold them for their wristband having planned obsolescence. 3. Revisit all past noodle products and tell us what they're REALLY like. Thank you.

Glad to see you back in your native environent. Us non-people people don't do well in captivity. Looking forward to you getting back up to speed after a good rest (and I would suggest a few pies) :)

Very good to see and hear. Glad that you're on the mend; love from my family to yours. Now that you have your taste back, as a fellow northerner, I prescribe chip shop gravy. And Minidiscs. Don't put the gravy on the Minidiscs.

Great news. Glad to see it looks like there is light at the end of the tunnel...

The news about your sense of smell is really lovely to hear, i get what you say when it may be only temporary but it's a little bit of light (or smell) in what must have been an awful time for you. Best wishes.

Great to hear you are doing better!

I'm so happy for you that you're feeling well again!

Ah Welcome Home Mat. Great to see you back, I too am currently going through a "Hospital Phase" with a bad Crohn's Disease flare up. So can totally identify with what you are going through at the moment. Most importantly though, I hope you are feeling better and the worst is left far behind you! As my Consultant said to me on her ward rounds on Friday: "Sleep, Eat, Drink, Smile, Repeat. Life and Work will sort itself out!" Take good care Sir, glad you are back agmongst us. 😉

Hopefully better diagnoses from here on

Here's hoping that's your medical excitement sorted for the next two decades. 🍻

Good to see you back home Matt. Was quite worried about you back there - follow the doctor's orders mate!

Good grief it seemed pretty touch and go there for a while! Not only are you home now and feeling loads better- you can enjoy food again. Take the healthy time off and TREAT YO-SELF to your dream meals.

It's so great that you're now working from home (as a patient). ;-) Fingers crossed, it'll get even better, soon!

So no old blood out. Now you’re bursting at the seams with all of this extra blood they gave you. It looks and sounds like you’re feeling way better - that’s encouraging! Feeling “normal” after you’ve felt like crap is a phenomenal feeling. Awesome to hear the other positives too!

So glad things are looking up! What a relief for you. Glad to still have you around. :)

Take all the time you need and I hope you can enjoy the taste food for a long time!

Thankful that this was diagnosed and is sorted for the most part, with the added bonus of having taste and smell! Add me to the list of those who were very concerned after seeing the update sitting in the patio area. Still laughing over the "How can you say these kinds of things?" (very flatly:) "Well, um, we do." Very glad you're back, sounding (and feeling) like yourself again.

glad you're on the mend!

Awesome news!

I am truly glad to hear how much better you are feeling! You sound like your old self, Matt! So good to see you in your new space.

HE LIVES!!!!!!!!!!

Glad to hear you're doing better, hope that was the cause of the liver problems too! Strep is a mother. Everyone, when ever you're sick enough to go to the doctor and they don't know what's wrong, demand a strep test! I always do, and I've caught early infections three times!

Awesome news Mat!!

Best news I’ve had in a long time. Well done you and God Bless!

Just been thinking about you Mat. Im all abiut dark humor. No good to be completely serious all the time.

Wow! What wonderful news. I'm so happy for you. I know it's almost certainly absolutely not your thing but as someone who really loves going to top restaurants a couple of times a year I'd absolutely recommend whatever your best local super fancy restaurant is. You may leave thinking what was the point and feeling you wasted money but the uk has an extraordinary amount of Michelin star restaurants and this might be a small window to try one. As someone for whom it is one of the great joys of my life I think it's worth trying even if you end up hating it.

Love this update and glad to see you are back home with some good news for a change. Fingers crossed that this blood infection was the whole problem all along and it's been dealt with by the doctors. Get well sir!

Wonderful news, Mat! Having one's health is everything. So glad to hear. Your "hospital at home" is popular here on this side of the pond, as well. In our especially rural areas, we have a good deal of "Tele-Med" where patients have face-to-face meetings on video calls with their primary doctors and specialists. Many have monitoring devices that feed data to doctors for their evaluation. It saves on time, money, and provides care to those patients who otherwise would not receive it, often due to long distances. The internet has made all this possible. Take your time. Don't overdo it. So glad to hear you are feeling better and are back! Chuck

In the event that you die, there should be a tech museum in your name... and possibly in your storage locker :D (so glad you're feeling better!)

I am so glad to see you in so good spirits, and that you haven’t lost your dark sense of humor still. And it’s marvelous that you once more can enjoy the taste of food, -one of the best features of life in my opinion :-) This news was a really nice change of direction from the last couple of months! So glad! Cheers!

Glad to see you back home. Wi-fi in hospitals was a revelation for me when I discovered a couple years ago the hospital here had it, but I can see it would be essential for your sanity in a longer stay.

Phew! Borrowing a quote from Apollo 11 Mission Control ... 'You got a bunch of guys about to turn blue. We’re breathing again.'

Hope you are feeling better and that the worst is now behind you. If you have Renauds or something like it there are some really nice heated gloves you can get on Amazon from Savior and others.

Mat, I'm so happy you're home and you have some comfort. Here's hoping the rest of the medical maladies get sorted. Much love, Patrick.

The last update hit us all hard. This one certainly feels far more optimistic. Cold hands and feet have been an issue for me for many years. I literally have a hot water bottle from around September to June. I might look into that cuff thing (and I don't mean through the hole down the middle!) Meals at Leeds weren't much better, though we did get a reasonable Sunday lunch. Guess you just missed that! The toast at breakfast was awful though, like bread they'd waved a Swan Vesta in front of. Toast even has its cooking instructions in its name! Fingers crossed the liver thing is just a result of the infection.

Happy to see you home again in your new studio… and the recovery of your smell and taste is a great development!

As everyone! Great news!

Glad to see you home 😁😎

Wow. I'm so pleased to see you back, Mat, and I'm delighted you have your senses of smell and taste back. That must be amazing after 10 years without! Yes, you do still look thin in the face, but if keeping the weight off is better for you, I'm sure we'll quickly get used to the "new you". I can't tell you how pleased I am. Don't blow your head off - we'd miss you. Cheers, Stephen.

Welcome Home ☺️☺️

Glad to see you feeling so much better!

I'm so glad things are looking up. Hoping the trend continues! P.S. The technical term is "sphygmomanometer". :)

I am glad to see you in better health in this video. Keep calm and please don't blow your head off😄!

Has the Tories ruined the NHS? Quite a contrast to the Brexit campaign. (Sorry)

I am so glad to hear that you are doing well again ("normal" according to you), your voice sounds much better too. I wish you all the best and a full recovery. Back to your old greatness!

Welcome home

Wonderful update. Huge congratulations on tasting again, Mat. That's just outstanding.

Fantastic news! It is so great to see that you are getting back to your normal self after that last scare, I'm glad it wasn't more serious. Thanks for sharing about that Home Ward option and your experience with it; the tech sounds like its finally mature enough for it to be a viable option. I hope you still take plenty of time to relax and get some fresh spring air! Cheers Mat!

Splendid! Seeing you home and in good spirits makes so many people you'll never meet happy. Welcome home!

Great news! Good to see you’re well again and back in the comfort of your own home! ☺️

Best news ever!!!!

I'm sure I speak for everyone when I say that I am just so pleased that you're safe and sound . I hope that you won't feel obligated in any way whatsoever to rush your recovery on account of us plebs who tune in whenever you post. The joy, insight, humour and knowledge that you've spread over the last ten or so years years of my sub and more latterly during my (very modest) Patreon support has created UNLIMITED credit in the bank of goodwill as far as I'm concerned. Take it easy and try and enjoy your convalescence as much as possible! I'm the same as Jim W above whose wife knows you by proxy - my wife was very concerned when she heard that you'd been poorly as I've spent many a chat telling her repeatedly how much I enjoy your content an demeanour so best wishes to you Mat. Take care

I actually really like this new office look. It looks like a nice day. I hope you keep the natural light for patreon videos. Obviously not for proper ones but for us the windows look great. Hopefully the sound deadening stuff is fun to put up. I bet you could get some for free if you mention it on your next microphone or camera review.

6:29 "I hope you don't mind". No Mat, we very much don't mind that you're here, fresh from your hospital bed, making a video for us 🙂 In fact, it's greatly appreciated.

I am SO glad to see you being chipper and having some hope again, Mat! Stick with it, carry on, [insert encouraging platitude here]!

There's no place like home. I'm very happy you're back!

Thanks for the update, and I'm really chuffed to hear how well you're doing!

Good to see you on the mend

Fantastic to see you home again and feeling a bit better. ❤️

Can't believe 4 people have downvoted this on YouTube - miserable beggars. But anyway so relieved and glad to see you're back home and on the mend. Here's hoping the shotgun won't be needed for many decades to come!

Glad to see you back home, that'll give you a little boost if nothing else. Take care.

Glad you're back! Whenever a relative says 'please take my [other relative] to hospital, they need some rest and to be looked after...' to me, I tend to bang my head against a metaphorical wall...

Good to see you back home, Mat! My wife and daughter, who know you only from occasionally seeing you over my shoulder as I watch your videos, both cheered to see you back home. All the best.

Great to hear you've bounced back. I think the new studio facility needs a carpet to dampen the echo. Perhaps a nice orange shag pile to go with the new loud speakers? Or maybe try out BorisFX 'Crumplepop' plug-in for your editor, which does a magic job of removing echo. All the best.

Great to see you back at home even if they are pestering you with all the remote monitoring it’s massively better than being on a ward. The main thing at home is you can start pottering about and if your sense of taste is back after so long get stuck into some good food. Hope the vet bills aren’t too bad for the cat!

This is fantastic, you look great. A bit battered but triumphant. Ive been busy last few weeks, but with dull in between and often thought about you. Having also been in hospital two years ago with pneumonia, I could feel each one of your comments. I also hate needles. Anyway, I am as happy as you are. Shotguns are messy though

Excellent! Sounds like your body did a "reset". A good test is if things smell/taste bad when you eat some of those instant breakfast meals then yeah, your sense of smell did come back!

This update improved my Monday immensely. So glad to see you out of hospital and feeling better. So the deranged blood was the strep infection? Fingers crossed the liver shadow is related. Don't be tempted to overdo it, have plenty of rest. Take care!

Awesome news! - Glad to see you back in your own home :)

Welcome back!! I'm so glad they figured it out.... and the taste is back. Congrats.

You look like a man who has had a weight lifted from him, far more animated and enjoying life. Fantastic.

Hearing that sign off again was a pleasure. Glad to see you back.

You do look so much better, fingers crossed the liver is fine.

I'm so happy for you, and I truly mean it <3

Having known for a while about your lack of taste, I was especially pleased to hear that it returned: I can just imagine the joy of being able to taste things properly after a decade, it must have been a thrill. Obviously the other aspects of your general heath are important too, but it's things like that which can make all the difference to your mental state. Glad to see you back.

It is good to hear you are home. Definitely tell the hospital of your issue/idea for a "lost connection" notification between the tablet and vitals monitor. Your tech know-how may make future versions of the home monitoring systems better.

Hurrah! Welcome back. It's great to see you. I am "super private" person and I hated being in hospital. Some of us just don't do small-talk and "camaraderie". I am no doubt a horrible person. You should definitely market your diet - you could be rich!

I would advise against the shotgun approach. It creates a terrible mess and it's complicated to purchase legally. guillotine is a much cleaner apparatus and perfectly legal. That said, I wouldn't worry about using a Wifi without a VPN. Everything uses strong encryption nowadays mail, cloud storage, messengers, updates. A wifi is no riskier than the internet itself. If anything it's the terrible advise you find online that puts you in danger.

Fantastic!

Love Your darker sence of humor. As an introvert person, i fully understand Your need to be at home. Take care. Love from Denmark. ♥️

Tremendous news, back from the brink! It’s obvious how relieved you are. Chuffed for you - every day in every way getting better and better.

I am so glad you are feeling better and back on the road!!!! I am looking forward to great videos.

And he even managed a mini review of a water bottle, welcome back Mat!

Seeing you out of the hospital seriously made my day. Just take it slow and don’t rush anything. But I trust you’ll do that anyway. Anyway. Enough waffling on. Welcome back!

Welcome back! Great to see you!

Great to hear!

I am very happy for you and relieved. Now you have to get back your strength. Now you and doctors have to keep eye on your liver as it is possible that there was also hepatitis by the same microbe and I think the lesions need regular check ups.

I'm glad about the positive development and mate you were supposed to get all these gadgets sincs you're - Techmoan - who'd be better "playing" around with it but you 😉 All the best 🍀

Great news Mat, especially with the taste/ smell. Are your sinuses feeling improved enough to possibly back to flying too? Getting used to the new lighter Mat.

You look and sound better than ever, Mat! Glad you're home and on the mend!! ...and smelling and tasting all that life has to offer!

It's spring, Mat is back, he feels better and he can taste food! I'm really happy for you! Enjoy your break and have some nice food, do what you like. We'll wait here; get back to YouTube when you feel like it, don't rush it. It sounds like this -understandably- a moment of joy for you, take some time to celebrate it.

Great news that is! I'm so relieved! Now, as you intended, take a couple of days off, enjoy Easter, have some eggs and rashers (though not too many ;-) ) and take your time getting back on track!

I'm so glad you're home, feeling okay and have regained taste and smell. Being on the ward is hell. When I had a pulmonary embolism, I fainted a couple of times, and so was given a private room, which was really rather nice Wishing you all the best! The medical tech is very impressive. Enjoy your break!

Great to see and hear from you Mat. It's great you can taste and smell. Also great that you are back in your own home. Hopefully everything will be alright now 🙏

Man I am a 42 yo man but seeing you being better and on the mend makes me emotional. I wish you all the best Mat!

Great to see things are well and truly on the up. Fab news!

Good to have you back, Mat. Equilibrium has been restored and life continues as it should...

I'm so happy to hear you were able to return home. I spent all of 5 and part of another day in hospital with sepsis. Now that I hear you sharing some of your symptoms it sounds like what I was experiencing. I was having chills and my whole body was shaking and I'd also have bouts of sweats. Then normal and repeat. That continued until the third day in the hospital with an antibiotic drip. I found the antibiotics they sent me home with (pills) caused my voice to be hoarse but it was lovely to be back at home.

I'm so glad you're back home. You've been on my mind a lot these past few days. About the enjoy things while you can thing–you said this before in a video some years ago and I thought about it many times. It definitely made me appreciate things a lot more. Thank you for sharing all this personal stuff, it means a lot.

Congratulations on being back home and on regaining your sense of taste and smell. That must feel even better than winning the lottery, as it’s something money simply can’t buy. You’re looking really well, and your new physique suits you. Just a small note of caution: once your metabolism gets going again, maintaining your weight can become the real challenge. I say this from personal experience, having gained, lost and regained weight several times over the years. In early 2021, during the "event", my BMI got close to 30, which prompted me to make some significant changes to my diet. Over the course of eight months, I lost 20kg and have managed to keep it off since. I’m not a nutritionist, so I’m not in a position to give professional advice, but I’m happy to share what worked for me. It was nothing particularly complex, mainly replacing ready meals with home-cooked food, increasing fibre intake to help with satiety, cutting back on snacks, and following a 16 hour fasting cycle (which includes my sleep cycle) during the working week. As I mentioned, I’m not an expert, so do take it as just one person’s experience. That said, I do believe it’s worth revisiting one's own dietary habits from time to time.

I'm so happy for you that you got back home with some clarity! Hope you recover soon and come fully back to live!

So glad to see you doing better!

Good to see you're home!

Great news!

Great to see you back home, and with some positive health news at last. Any danger you'll be taking apart that Samsung device and wrist monitor for an upcoming video?

I can hear the improvement in your speech. You still look ... like ... skeletor ... But your report, particularly about the return of your taste/smell was wonderful to hear. Let's hope the liver thing is related to the strep. The "home ward" thing sounds great - don't skew the data by being very adept at the tech!! Still thinking about you every day, Mat. Come back to the edit bay when you feel up to it and *not before*!

This is a wonderful update, Mat. I hope everything continues to be good news!

I’m so glad that you’re home!

Mat, there are those of us who really do care and are glad to have you tell us what's going on. I know I feel as though you are a good friend and I am happy to hear that you are doing so well. I hope you senses stay the way they are. What a unique way to get them back. I had something similar 5 years ago. I had a really bad motorcycle accident. (Not my fault. A 17 year old with no license crossed in front of me and I hit him on my bike at 50 mph, the speed limit.) Because of the insurance pain and suffering payout, I got enough to pay off my condo and pay cash for a 4 year old Mini Cooper convertible, a toy to replace my totaled motorcycle, which do the the condo got me out of that debt. As you said, I don't recommend it, either.

Fantastic news, glad your home

We can all let out a sigh of relief! I’ve been searching but couldn’t find a replacement YouTuber to fill the void you were gonna leave if you dropped dead on us! Have a rest and get back to it you old moan. Have a few easter eggs too skeletor 😉 .

Well this is hugely welcome news, Mat! You and Mrs Mat must be so relieved. Here's to better times ahead, you certainly deserve some good fortune! All the best, Mark.

Great to have you back Mat and happy to hear you are felling better! I like the "infomercial" style video ("but wait, there's more!") and very interesting to learn about the tele-medicine system that you're using!

two thumbs up!

So happy about this update Mat! Home sweet home. Take care! ❤️🌞

So glad to hear you're feeling better, and getting taste and smell back seems like a bonus.

Really pleased to hear you are back home! There really is nothing like your own bed. Take care, eat well and we look forward to hearing more from you when you are ready. Great news!

I am so happy you are not suspecting cancer anymore! That was a really bleak outlook when you talked about potentially having two of them at the same time. I keep my fingers crossed you don't need to go to hospital anymore!

Was there any sort of diag/prognosis? Was it just a fluke thing? Or are you still in a risk category? (sorry, can't view right now, hoping for hints in the comments but nothing seen.)

Good you're feeling lot better the only way is up now

Awesome news Mat

Brilliant - glad you're back!

I look forward to the return of the food reviews 😉

You need to eat some French food, that’s clearly your problem 😂 I might be in south France in July (I live in California), ping me if you’d be there at this time. The very south, along the eastern side of the Spanish border.

What I dread in a ward in a hospital is the noise, other people snoring etc… I don’t sleep well.

Glad to hear you're back home, even if not fully cleared and discharged. You sound a lot better too. Hopefully you're good to go for a good, long while. Enjoy those couple of days off!

Great to hear your starting to feel better but take it easy. All the best.

You really do seem a lot clearer now! It's so good to see you doing better. I'll keep rooting for everything to turn out great.

That's marvelous! I'm so glad you're back home and feeling better. Enjoy your freedom, the sunshine and open air!

Home is always so much better. No one WANTS to be in hospital. Like someone said, hospital is for sick people and being there can make you feel worse than you are. But they are important and necesary and they do what they can.

I'm so glad to see this update and to see things are on the mend for you. This remote monitoring tech sounds like a great idea. Spend as little time in hospital as possible. I've never regretted a frank attitude to death and illness. It helps you plan for the worst (while hoping for the best). Wishing you the very best as ever. x

Matt, you could read the ingredients of a box of cereal, or even Dave Pyrex's bio! I'd tune it (prob something wrong there). Hospitals and airports are anti-places IMHO, you never really want to be in one and if so, make it quick. My grandfather was in the VA for what seemed like years when i was a kid, those visits were "interesting". The squeeze put on basic care, let alone emergencies etc just are maddening all to to profit off misery. Recent Black Mirror episode "Common People" is worth a watch. It's noticeable from this video that you've got your color back and I am hopeful for your continued recovery. Best wishes from Queens NYC. -est2

It's great that you're back home! And, oddly enough, I'm happy that you've regained your smell of taste. Oh, what's less great: your personal details and address are showing around the 16 minute mark. Might not be the biggest issue as this is just for Patrons, but still.

I'm so glad your back in familiar territory. Prayers for you.

So glad to see you doing better. ❤️

Yay!

Wonderful news! Hoping and praying for your continued recovery.

Fantastic news, having watched a few mins of the video you look ( and come across ) 100s of times better than some of the other videos. Wishing you a full recovery, great to see you're home and hear your on the mend :)

Ahhhh Matt Jobs 📱😂 Got to be the first time I’ve ever stopped what I’ve been doing, to watch a health update video of someone I’ve never even bloody met before. While supping a brew in front of my HD tv 😂 Lee

I’m so relieved. You look a bit different and still sound not quite right BUT you are back!

Good to hear you’re home, but reeling from the idea of the NHS using technology! Look after yourself, and enjoy tasting and smelling proper food.

Fantastic news, glad things are going well.

Great news! That's really cheered me up today. Seems the docs saw you coming with all of the kit they've sent you home with. Such a great idea though for those are confident using it. Maybe you'll be known as MediTechmoan for a few weeks! My son was sent home with a pacemaker monitor recently - just a box by the bed really that sends back data periodically; think they're pretty common. We did have the option to link it to his mobile 'phone but rather annoyingly it was geared mainly towards iPhones and also select Samsung devices running earlier versions of Android OS and wouldn't talk to it. Very interesting how they connected wirelessly to the pacemaker in clinic though, and not only downloaded all of the relevant data but also put the device through its 'paces' to see the effects if it was 'turned down'. All the best and enjoy some restful days ahead.

You is NORMAL… at last!! Great to hear matey. Lee

So pleased to see you back and feeling more like yourself. Wishing you a speedy full recovery and get back to it when you feel ready.

I absolutely LOVE your dark sense of humour. Glad you're back home!

Fantastic, great to see you back at home and looking nearly normal. I know the feeling, i had a situation last year when I was in the hospital for several days. It was brutal. I'd stare out the window like a lost puppy imagining freedom.

So glad you are back home. I'm interested in finding out how you carry on with your home hospital equipment.

Glad to see you are home (in your new studio). I know what you mean about being straight forward about things. A few months ago my wife said something to the effect of 'when you're gone all of your books and other stuff will probably just be thrown away'. She doesn't have any use for books. Everything can be looked up on the Internet. I'm only 71 but I'm starting to straighten things up, so that when I'm gone, at least my important (to me) things will have a destination.

Great news - now take it easy and get betterer(!)

Best news I’ve had in ages, Mat. Thanks for posting and welcome home! (Chinese take-away today…maybe back on a plane tomorrow?)

…So great to see you again! You’ve been in my thoughts this whole time. Now, go eat something! (LOL!)

Fantastic news! Glad to see that technology has finally advanced far enough in the world of the NHS to allow "stay at home hospital."

I'm so pleased! You look great. I hope you still take it easy for a while though

So glad to see you back home 🙏

Great news! Take a moment for yourself, recover some more energy and enjoy! You're fine, it's normal when people change to look different but you did the positive way although not in the best way XD. slim is better than round. All in all, WELCOME BACK! ps I have on of those thing too and I think it's filled with water and in an year or so part has evaporated I suppose and now it's not working anymore.

Welcome back! Home never felt so good, huh?

It must be an absolute joy to be home again - and with the added bonus of smell and taste to go with it. Do me a favor and get yourself a nice beef fillet to grill and enjoy. Those hand warmers are muffs. All I can imagine right now are 19th century ladies in one horse open sleighs with huge fur muffs on their hands. It sounds like another scolding to Bees Knees for fighting with all of the neighborhood cats is on the docket. 😼 Take it easy getting back into the swing of things. 🤍

i think i was smiling the whole video. Now go and cook sonething tasty :)

So glad you're back home Mat!😃 I have an idea how you feel because I've had a couple of long stays in the hospital myself and really hated it, as I'm sure most people do. The "home ward thing" sounds a little like those prisoners on home confinement with an ankle monitor😉 but it beats being in the hospital proper by a mile.

well, this post cheered me up today

Great news! Glad you're feeling better!

I am overjoyed to hear you have your senses working again! Brought tears to my eyes I'm so happy for you.

Ohm sweet Ohm

So glad you're back home and feeling better. Eat all your favorite foods and enjoy your reawakened taste buds!

Huzzah! "There's no place like home!!"

Great news

Yes! Welcome home! 🙌🙌🙌

Excellent news 👍

Hurrah !!!!

Glad you are on the mend the sense of humour is back

Nice to see you back home! Take care!

Glad you are feeling better, you definitely look more like your old self 👍

Having lost the sense of smell with Covid, I know exactly the joy you are talking about being able to smell again. It took many many months for me to get my sense of smell back, I could taste fine, but without smell all I was actually tasting was the basic things like salty, sweet, bitter etc so no joy in eating. Memories are also wrapped up in being able to smell, and to me it was a very depressing time, especially wondering if my sense of smell would ever return.

Absolutely great seeing you back again in your (future) studio. You look and sound so much better!

Glad to hear you sounding so upbeat. I can't imagine what it must have felt like tasting food again after such a long time - and it's great that being dropped off the clinical trial isn't as much of a problem as a result. Regarding the blood transfusion confusion, I think you're thinking of dialysis - where a machine filters blood in patients with kidney issues. Blood comes out, gets cleaned, and is put back in. With the weight loss - bear in mind that you've probably lost a lot of muscle mass while you've been ill, so you'll probably put on some weight as you become more active, even if it's not in fat. The concept of being in hospital whilst being at home is marvelous really; it's a really positive use of smart technology. I didn't mind my week's stay in hospital following surgery, but then I knew it was going to take about a week - it must be much harder to deal with when you don't have a specific end date. The first few days were the worst - I got nearly zero sleep as they were monitoring my vitals every 20 minutes (!) due to being on morphine. The frequency ramped down to every couple of hours fairly quicky, but as it takes me a couple of hours to nod off at the best of times it meant that my sleep was extremely patchy. My saviour was also noise cancelling headphones and a Steam Deck - doing a bit of exploring in Skyrim allowed me to forget I was trapped in a bed all day. Anyway, all the best, take it easy.

Great to see you doing better. It may be the partial time on the trial that fixed your sense of smell & taste, so it may be permanent.

FanTAStic news! So is this what the possible blood cancer was? Is that part of the scare behind you now? Also: I laughed about the shotgun license. I made a similar joke to some friends just last night and was met with great concern...

Good to hear!

So glad you’re back home! Wishing you a quick recovery and sending lots of good vibes.

Great news. Happy for you.

Now you've got your taste and smell back I'm expecting a big reboot of the Food Reviews.

Great to see you're back on your feet! Congrats on the return of yer taste as well. All the best to you and the missus.

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Glad you're starting to feel yourself again Mat. Enjoy some rest!

More interesting than you probably think!

Good to see you man!

So glad you're home, Mat. Take care of yourself and let the Mrs. pamper you a bit.

Glad to hear you're doing better!

Yipee! So glad you're back at home!

I'm really glad to see you back in the studio and looking more energetic. Also, one thing about the cysts, those do tend to cause cancer scares quite often. In my family, we've had a lot of incidents like that. My mother in her breast, my grandfather on his kidney, and I had one myself on my testicle. All turned out to be cysts. I'm hoping yours is going to end up being a false alarm as well.

Glad to see you back home, take it easy.

Great to see your back home, wish you a speedy recovery 🙏

Great, it's wonderful to get home.

Welcome home!

Absolutely chuffed for you. There is nowhere like home and your own bed! Welcome home.

Good! Hang in there and keep moaning. 😉

Welcome Home! I know how good it feels to sleep in your own home in your own bed after a stay in the hospital. My grandmother once said the if you had any modesty before going in to the hospital, it would all be gone by the time you leave. Take care.

Mat, it's so great to hear that you're feeling properly better!

Welcome back Mat!

Hi from Canada Mat, glad to see you home again. Please take some time for yourself and your family!

Thank goodness you are back home. Take good care, wishing speediest of recoveries.

That’s awesome! Hope you get fully well soon.

Welcome home, Mat! 🎉

Wow, back home with an improved taste and smell must be a welcome change! Very good news!

Fantastic news. May your recovery go well

Return of the King! Wishing you well and looking forward to whatever comes next!

Great news, now rest up!!!

Great news! Wishing you a speedy recovery

Great your back home to relax in a comfortable environment

Couldn't be happier to see this

YAY!!!

Great to see you back but please do take it easy !

So pleased to see this update!

Good to see you.

Delighted to hear it! You’ve missed rolling Easter Eggs down the ward, but that’s probably a bonus!

Glad you're back! Your Bar Harbor shirt brought a smile. I hope your recovery continues to progress.

Great news! Take it easy. 🙏😊

Such great news! Rest up and take it slowly xx

Great to see you’re home and feeling normal, and let’s hope on the liver stuff.

Hell yeah!!

Pleased to hear your voice and see you back home!

Well, it's about time! Have a good rest.

Great to see you home 😊

Best news that I've seen today

Good news, and I wish you a speedy recovery.

Yes! Let the Mrs pamper you and feed you with proper food ☺️👍

So glad you're back! I was telling my wife you were having problems like you were a family member. She sent good wishes too.

Good news. I hope everything is sorted now?

Great! Sounds like you’ve seen hell. I know German hospitals and they’re bad enough. Get well, Mat!

Great news! Welcome back! 🥳

I'm so happy you're home. Funny how YouTube connects people, we've never met but I feel so at home watching your videos. Get well soon!

Welcome back ! And take it easy

Fantastic!

Wonderful news!