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Thanks Kim! As far as my relationship with "the wound", it actually has little to do with aesthetics. (Although, admittedly as a 26 year old female who just recently learned how to strut her stuff proudly during bathing suit season, the idea of the scar didn't exactly thrill me.) I think it's...

quick 17th day update: today was shower number two. it went a lot better and i actually looked down at the wound for a bit and it's actually starting to heal quite nicely. there was a knot at the top which has almost completely flattened out. so, it seems i'm starting to be "ok" with that part...

again, thank you for all your replies! i'm now at day 15 post-op. yesterday 3 out of the 5 stitches were taken out by my PCP, but the last two were a little too embedded and i was a little too skittish for my doctor to go any further so he called his surgeon friend who saw me bright and early...

thanks guys - i'll tell my doc about the dizziness... i was anemic when leaving the hospital and they've got me taking iron pills because of it. i didn't know anemia could cause dizziness. i am also on 75mg of beta blockers a day (up from 50mg pre-op) which could definitely be cause for the low...

ciao everyone, i'm at 12th day post-op and probably being a little lazier than i should be. i've been taking naps everyday and doing the minimum as far as walking and exercises.... but at least i'm doing them at all! so, besides having to get my butt in gear a little more, i'm generally...

make that very VERY good friends. no one from Florence came out. There were a couple of friends in Bologna by chance, my friend from Treviso came down, a girlfriend from Trento with family in Bologna stayed the weekend, as did her boyfriend, and also some of my mom's friends from Imola made the...

i agree with what most people have said so far: the fewer visitors the better. i saw my mom, dad and boyfriend through slitted eyes in the ICU for about 3 minutes each (i think). i know my mom was the first visitor and she got my best, bravest, smile and hello. by the time my boyfriend was let...

Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to introduce you to my mother. Leave it up to her to put my real name out there for the first time :) She's been here in bologna like a champ from day one and now they're sending us back home to florence! I'm a free woman!! Yay! Love you, mamma

thanks for all your kind messages! i'm feeling better every day and today they took the last i.v. tubes out and said my potential departure date is either tomorrow or the next day. until then, i've been making best friends with all my fellow hospitalites here, and being a question answering...

i'm officially over the hill. what a big huge whopping hill!! i'll be posting about my recovrey in the post-op section. i could have never had the courage without all of the support from family, freinds and you guys!! thank you all again for your positive messages!!

well, i spent two dazed days being coddled in the ICU (i should have gone down to "semi-intensive" after the first day post surgery but there weren't any available beds). and they say that things are going just dandy. i'm in kind of a lot pain where my scar is, and my heart beat is quite high...

thank you thank you thank you all for your positive messages of support!! tomorrow I'm being admitted, and Wednesday is the big day. My parents arrived in Milan this morning and in a few hours -after their train ride down to Florence- I'm having lunch with them!! Neither they nor I could ever...

that makes sense. until now i've been in contact with the secretarial staff, who don't seem to be able to give much more information than what is STRICTLY told to them (which i understand). and he did mention the ICU, but made it seem like I'd be staying there for a while.... ??? I think until...

good point.

So, can someone please tell me why I've been scouring the web for the past 5 months obsessively searching for OHS scar pics when all I simply had to do was nose around in this thread?!? :rolleyes: I was too stuck around the Pre-surgery and Post-surgery posts to venture all the way down here...

Thanks guys!!!!! I got "the call" that I was waiting for from Bologna today! They gave me all the details I need for now. Admittance to the hospital is on sept. 22 bright and early. A day long of tests, prodding and poking, and then sept. 23rd is THE day!! One question: I'm not sure if this is...

thanks for the input, guys. we're down to the wire and in just 5 short days I'm being admitted to the hospital and in 6 days it's operation time!!:D just a question, david: why did you have to stop boxing? did it have to do with the coumadin, the heart surgery itself or both??

speaking of sleeping... i just can't stop! last night i was out cold at 8:30pm. granted i did wake up for about an hour or so when my boyfriend came home from work (he's a waiter and usually gets off around 2am), but then i went right back to sleep like a little baby, abandoning my boyfriend in...

Hi KWRice, ask me whatever! Here on the forum, or private message, or whatever. I'm scheduled for surgery on the 23rd of this month, so can't help YET with recovery questions. But very soon, I'll be itching to compare and contrast. :) You are very lucky to have had donor "parts" so to speak...

PS- surprisingly, i slept great last night. could have been the exhausting emotional day. let's hope it lasts!! (the sleep, not the exhausting emotions ;p)