Ross said:CCRN is having her surgery also! Best of luck and good journey to you also. I do hope your feeling a little better about it all and please have your husband post updates. I'll see you when it's done and then you can tell me about the whole experience.
Thank you all for your in-put and if anyone has had the same procedure I'd love to hear from ya! Thanks to you guys who recently posted about their own surgeries. Your opinion on the presurgery anxiety was most helpful.
Ross said:I was thinking about the fact of you being a nurse and imagining how much worse that would make your anxieties. I think it would put me off the charts! Sometimes ignorance is really bliss, but then again, it can be dangerous too, so it's better to know these things in my opinion. Your gonna be just fine. Your surgeon and I had coffee and donuts this morning and he's sure of it.
bvdr said:
My hospital is one of the top ten in the nation for cardiac surgery. Saint Thomas in Nashville, TN. Dr. Michael Petracek is my surgeon and I am thankful. He asked me if I felt bad about all the grief I'd given him in the past and I said NO. They need some grief. I know the ICU nurses and they're ready to man the fort and keep all the nosy people out when I can't speak for myself. I will, however have someone with me on the floor. Don't be too disapointed in our peers....they work hard and the work load just keeps getting larger. They're taking care of patients on the floor now who were ICU patients when I got out of school.....23 years ago. Thank you so much for your post. It really means much to me.
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