Marguerite53
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Seems I?ll be moving into a new Waiting Room!!
Just saw my cardio and she says we?re in no hurry, but my echo of last week shows a further narrowing of the aortic valve (from .9 to .7cm sq.). She says, we can wait for further symptoms, or go right to the surgeon. (ya gotta love these cardios! I thought all the things I?d been reporting were symptoms!) Seeing as how this is the holidays, and my long delayed colonoscopy is next week, and my October mammogram revealed the need for a breast biopsy (that?s probably going to get moved up from the February date I have now) and it?s my 25th wedding anniversary soon, and my birthday and my husband?s birthday??..I?m hoping/thinking late February or mid March for the heart surgery. (kids will be coming home for spring break if they really want to be there). My husband suggested that I have a consultation with my regular physician to sort out what is most important and how to schedule things. When the cardio said, ?be sure to tell the colonoscopy and biopsy anestesiologist to have a careful watch on your blood pressure, and tell them that your valve is significantly narrowed? it freaked me out more than the news of the impending heart surgery! (who wants to croak with a tube up their a**???
) My GP (whom you?ll recall I really love) was again wonderful. We?re going to cut my BP dose in half ahead of time and hold off on the morning dose until after the procedure (the cardio concurred). GP said ?we want your BP up to a nice normal high that day?. For the breast biopsy I?m waiting to hear if that surgeon will let me do just a local anesthetic. My GP had a node removed under her arm with just local and enjoyed the whole watching and listening thing. She thinks I?m tough enough to manage it. That was all a relief to me as I don?t want to be juggling anesthetics so close to a possible heart surgery. The GP told me not to wait on the surgeon ? to call him NOW and make a first appointment. So, I?ve gotten 2 names from my cardiologist (who calls back personally, albeit, very business like) and now it?s time to flip a coin and choose one of them!!
It?s very weird how you wait and wait and then POW the news actually hits you like a ton of bricks. The first thing you think is, holy sh** I don?t have time to do this and such!! Where did the time go?? How can I get this done by ???? You really don?t know how it?s going to affect you. I thought I was so ready, but instead I?ve been fighting tears at the whimpiest things??.I think it?s the holidays mixed in??.so much emotion already! And small stresses. Frankly, I?m so happy to be getting this POS heart that I?ve been walking around with for 51 years fixed that I think celebrating is what I should be doing!! It?s like I?ve been in a room with not quite enough light and now I get to schedule to have a window put it. Sounds good to me!!
Thanks for listening to my diatribe. Feel free to respond in any way, I welcome all reactions and opinions.
Yep. This is good. Finally!!
Marguerite
Just saw my cardio and she says we?re in no hurry, but my echo of last week shows a further narrowing of the aortic valve (from .9 to .7cm sq.). She says, we can wait for further symptoms, or go right to the surgeon. (ya gotta love these cardios! I thought all the things I?d been reporting were symptoms!) Seeing as how this is the holidays, and my long delayed colonoscopy is next week, and my October mammogram revealed the need for a breast biopsy (that?s probably going to get moved up from the February date I have now) and it?s my 25th wedding anniversary soon, and my birthday and my husband?s birthday??..I?m hoping/thinking late February or mid March for the heart surgery. (kids will be coming home for spring break if they really want to be there). My husband suggested that I have a consultation with my regular physician to sort out what is most important and how to schedule things. When the cardio said, ?be sure to tell the colonoscopy and biopsy anestesiologist to have a careful watch on your blood pressure, and tell them that your valve is significantly narrowed? it freaked me out more than the news of the impending heart surgery! (who wants to croak with a tube up their a**???
) My GP (whom you?ll recall I really love) was again wonderful. We?re going to cut my BP dose in half ahead of time and hold off on the morning dose until after the procedure (the cardio concurred). GP said ?we want your BP up to a nice normal high that day?. For the breast biopsy I?m waiting to hear if that surgeon will let me do just a local anesthetic. My GP had a node removed under her arm with just local and enjoyed the whole watching and listening thing. She thinks I?m tough enough to manage it. That was all a relief to me as I don?t want to be juggling anesthetics so close to a possible heart surgery. The GP told me not to wait on the surgeon ? to call him NOW and make a first appointment. So, I?ve gotten 2 names from my cardiologist (who calls back personally, albeit, very business like) and now it?s time to flip a coin and choose one of them!!It?s very weird how you wait and wait and then POW the news actually hits you like a ton of bricks. The first thing you think is, holy sh** I don?t have time to do this and such!! Where did the time go?? How can I get this done by ???? You really don?t know how it?s going to affect you. I thought I was so ready, but instead I?ve been fighting tears at the whimpiest things??.I think it?s the holidays mixed in??.so much emotion already! And small stresses. Frankly, I?m so happy to be getting this POS heart that I?ve been walking around with for 51 years fixed that I think celebrating is what I should be doing!! It?s like I?ve been in a room with not quite enough light and now I get to schedule to have a window put it. Sounds good to me!!
Thanks for listening to my diatribe. Feel free to respond in any way, I welcome all reactions and opinions.
Yep. This is good. Finally!!
Marguerite
