Please help w/two (primarily) AVR questions

[sylviayasgur]

hi susan!
i think that all your questions have all been thoroughly answered by all the others here; i don't have much to add.
for the most part, everyone recovers at their own rate. joey expected his recovery to go much faster than it did, but once her realized that he just had to "go along" with it, he was ok.
there are, sometimes, little bumps in the road after surgery. it happens. still, you can work with them and they are treatable and sometimes fixable. for the most part they are just that, stumbling blocks along the way.
as nancy said, there are so many people who contribute here, there are bound to be good and not so good stories.
please try and keep a positive attitude as you go in.
please keep us posted and be well, sylvia

 

[Susan BAV]

Hi everyone -

I had the angiogram yesterday and they kept me overnight (and they set a cot up for my husband next to my bed - that was nice!); I haven't had one for twenty-four years but there were similarities that I recall from the previous ones, like the hot dye-stuff. They poked around for a couple of hours but said that since I would be having surgery "soon," they couldn't put the plug in (I'd read about the plug on this site and asked them if they could do that) so I had to lay around until 10:30 last night with an enormously heavy sandbag on my entry point. Of course, at 42, my arteries are as clean as can be. That's good! About an hour and a half before the sandbag came off, I barfed up the bit of dinner I'd had. Horrible experience, especially because I was propped up "35 degrees, no more" in the bed. You really need the law of gravity behind you when you're sick like that. I didn't get to talk to the surgeon last night but the cardiologist told my husband that it was "worse than they thought." I guess I'll find out more Monday. ~Susan

 

[tommy]

Susan,

Glad to hear that your arteries are clear. Good luck with the rest. Keep us posted.