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Dave_40
Hi everyone.
I'm back safely from the surgery and on the mend.
The top level experience is as follows:
1) very painless as I missed the rough days of complications.
2) Collapsed lung & bleeding issues post surgery required docs to go back in that evening.
3) ICU time was 3.5 days which tells you how rough that first day was.
4) Ward time was almost enjoyable with me adding laps daily.
5) Cardiac hospital food as always sux
6) released after 7.5 days with 29mm St Jude in mitral position plus LAD bypass via internal mamory
7) MV Repair option was aborted upon visual inspection
Pain was minimal. I was off anything good before I knew what I was taking. Second pacer wire and left lung drainage removals were quite painful with only codine/tylonol from previous day.
I was terribly excited to get home Wenesday night. I had huge energy that day.
Since then I've seen some fluid retension problems but I am doing very well.
Thanks to everyone for support and prayers
I'm migrating to the Post-Surgery forumn
I'm back safely from the surgery and on the mend.
The top level experience is as follows:
1) very painless as I missed the rough days of complications.
2) Collapsed lung & bleeding issues post surgery required docs to go back in that evening.
3) ICU time was 3.5 days which tells you how rough that first day was.
4) Ward time was almost enjoyable with me adding laps daily.
5) Cardiac hospital food as always sux
6) released after 7.5 days with 29mm St Jude in mitral position plus LAD bypass via internal mamory
7) MV Repair option was aborted upon visual inspection
Pain was minimal. I was off anything good before I knew what I was taking. Second pacer wire and left lung drainage removals were quite painful with only codine/tylonol from previous day.
I was terribly excited to get home Wenesday night. I had huge energy that day.
Since then I've seen some fluid retension problems but I am doing very well.
Thanks to everyone for support and prayers
I'm migrating to the Post-Surgery forumn
oh boy!
