Jimmyk
Well-known member
Hello everyone,
Yesterday, I went to a follow up visit to the hospital . I was discharged last week after suffering swelling of the esophagus .This is the second time being hospitalized since my AVR last year.
It turned out there was a small piece of meat lodged above my stomach somewhere. Breathing was normal, but as far as trying to swallow water or any type of food, it would just come right back up.
An endoscopy was ordered and seemed to correct the problem, so everyone thought.
while being wheeled back to my room, I noticed that the problem was not corrected. The same problem was still there.
I'm sorry if I'm off the topic of the heart, but will get to that.
After the failed endoscopy, a ct scan was ordered. It turned out that there was swelling of the esophagus that needed to heal.
Within 24 hours, I was swallowing small sips of water. A liquid diet was ordered, eventually moving onto solid food.
All the while being in the hospital ,which was about a week, give or take a day. The Cardiologist office I go to, did not return any calls. In fact , I'm at the one year anniversary of undergoing AVR. I've only seen my Cardiologist one time in person. It's usually his nurse I deal with.
Anyway, I was going over my recent discharge notes from a ct scan they performed which revealed a 4.7 ascending aortic aneurysm .
At the same time last year, according to the records from my AVR hospital stay the aneurysm was 4.3 cm.
I'm trying to find out if this is something to be alarmed at?
Last year the hospital billed my insurance company in excess of a million dollars, with at least 12,000.00 dollars of my own payments. It seems as if now, they won't even give me the time of day. How hard is it to return a phone call?
Never the less , I have an appointment with a new Cardiologist in a couple of weeks.
Anxiety is another condition I deal with, so the waiting is nerve-wracking .
Once again, Sorry for going off topic!
Yesterday, I went to a follow up visit to the hospital . I was discharged last week after suffering swelling of the esophagus .This is the second time being hospitalized since my AVR last year.
It turned out there was a small piece of meat lodged above my stomach somewhere. Breathing was normal, but as far as trying to swallow water or any type of food, it would just come right back up.
An endoscopy was ordered and seemed to correct the problem, so everyone thought.
while being wheeled back to my room, I noticed that the problem was not corrected. The same problem was still there.
I'm sorry if I'm off the topic of the heart, but will get to that.
After the failed endoscopy, a ct scan was ordered. It turned out that there was swelling of the esophagus that needed to heal.
Within 24 hours, I was swallowing small sips of water. A liquid diet was ordered, eventually moving onto solid food.
All the while being in the hospital ,which was about a week, give or take a day. The Cardiologist office I go to, did not return any calls. In fact , I'm at the one year anniversary of undergoing AVR. I've only seen my Cardiologist one time in person. It's usually his nurse I deal with.
Anyway, I was going over my recent discharge notes from a ct scan they performed which revealed a 4.7 ascending aortic aneurysm .
At the same time last year, according to the records from my AVR hospital stay the aneurysm was 4.3 cm.
I'm trying to find out if this is something to be alarmed at?
Last year the hospital billed my insurance company in excess of a million dollars, with at least 12,000.00 dollars of my own payments. It seems as if now, they won't even give me the time of day. How hard is it to return a phone call?
Never the less , I have an appointment with a new Cardiologist in a couple of weeks.
Anxiety is another condition I deal with, so the waiting is nerve-wracking .
Once again, Sorry for going off topic!
