Am I the only one

[Cecily]

Hi, I'm wondering if you can help me. In December I went in for a PVR replacement. First they game me to much anesthia and they had alote of trouble waking me up. Then come to find out I guess my heart was in pretty bad shape because they had to rebuild my whole pulmonary artery they did that with a human tissue valve. Unfortunatley the leak is still there. They also said I had a stroke during the surgery but recovered completley. Now they say that I have a kink in an artery in the right side of my heart they want to go in with a catater and stent and open it. I don't know if I want this after nine days of hell in the hospital. I seem to be doing O.K. it has been seven weeks and I am back to work part-time. I am taking some meds. One of the problems is I am self employed and the medical bill are adding up I have a high deductible insurance. One Dr. was with me for maybe 5 minutes and is charging $440. I don't know I am just getting depressed that my heart was so bad and all the bills. Anyone got some similar stories? Has anyone had thier Pulmonary artery rebuilt and lived to tell about it? Thanks Cecily

 

[Ross]

I'm sure there has been. Part of my aorta has been rebuilt so why not. If they say it's kinked, get the solid evidence to prove so and if it is, get it taken care of asap. I know what you mean about Hell. I can be a tour guide with all that I've been through, but it's not going to get better on it's on and could cause a stroke or heart attack. If that happens, none of the hell you've been through was worth squat.