Thanks!
Thanks!
Yes - the recovery is boring!!!
I went to the cardiologist today - all is well and managed to get them to drop my beta blocker to 25 mg once a day (I have always had low blood pressure and had a transfusion and lots of meds in the hospital due to low bp).
I did participate in the AF study but did not go into AF... so nothing to report there.
OK - I promised some funny things. During the pre-admission questions, the admitting nurse asked me if I have used a "backhoe" in the past year... My husband heard the same thing, but only the nurse had said "tobacco". And I had not even started any medication yet!!! Yikes! The rest of the day, my husband and I kept looking at each other and saying "backhoe" and cracking up.
Then on the morning of my surgery, my husband was in the waiting room with a woman who's husband was in the other surgerical room also getting a valve replacement. She was getting regular updates and my husband received none. After 2 hours, the surgeon came in and said they were waiting for the results of a pregancy test... Oops - someone forget to do it ahead of time.
When waking up after surgery, I apparently was not the best patient and the nurse threatened to videotape me...! Don't worry, I calmed down and she and I were the best of friends!
The day after surgery, I still could not eat solids (for some reason the dinner right after surgery they sent me a solid tray), so I asked for jello to be sent up from the cafetaria. So the woman from the cafetaria comes up and plops a 4 pack of green jello on my tray with no spoon. I could not really use my arms and was staring at the packages of jello for about 10 minutes wondering how I was going to open it and if I could get it open, how was I going to eat it? (Yes, I could have called the nurse but I did not want to bother them with something trivial and my husband went to make a call and would be back soon). My cardiologist comes in and and looks at me staring at the 4 pack of green jello and no spoon and says "Green works better." I thought about this for a little while (drugs are a great thing) and then burst out laughing "You're lying!"
And that is "The rest of the story"!
