roundsgirl
Well-known member
Hey gang,
Hope all is going well with each of you. I wanted to update my last post. I had my open heart surgery on March 13. The surgery went good. He made my aortic root bigger and put in a on x mech. valve size 23. I came out of surgery and I was doing really good. all but the pain, which I knew was coming. Went with the mechanical valve after they did colonoscopy, the diverticula was a risk he felt it was time to take. To quote him the heart trumps everything, who can agrue with that, plus he explained that each surgery is risker and here I am with 2 OHS at the young, lol, age of 45. Ok so moving alone smoothly, THEN they rushed into the room around 3 am, when i say rushed i mean rushed. Apparently I had gone into 3rd degree heart block, so they quicky put a tempory pace maker in this was 4 days after my surgery. Well it never started working again, so on Mon, leaving me 100% on reliant on pace maker. I got me a permanent pace maker, needless to say I wasn't prepared for all of that. Lord help me with the INR stuff.... I went to the dr today, not my sugeon but the one here in town, and here's the thing the first two weeks I was doing good. The last two weeks I have been hurting bad, short of breath. So they think I may have some swelling and irritation in there so I go for an echo tomorrow morning. Any body ever experience this where the pain got worse instead of better. BIG HUGS TO ALL OF YOU!!!
Hope all is going well with each of you. I wanted to update my last post. I had my open heart surgery on March 13. The surgery went good. He made my aortic root bigger and put in a on x mech. valve size 23. I came out of surgery and I was doing really good. all but the pain, which I knew was coming. Went with the mechanical valve after they did colonoscopy, the diverticula was a risk he felt it was time to take. To quote him the heart trumps everything, who can agrue with that, plus he explained that each surgery is risker and here I am with 2 OHS at the young, lol, age of 45. Ok so moving alone smoothly, THEN they rushed into the room around 3 am, when i say rushed i mean rushed. Apparently I had gone into 3rd degree heart block, so they quicky put a tempory pace maker in this was 4 days after my surgery. Well it never started working again, so on Mon, leaving me 100% on reliant on pace maker. I got me a permanent pace maker, needless to say I wasn't prepared for all of that. Lord help me with the INR stuff.... I went to the dr today, not my sugeon but the one here in town, and here's the thing the first two weeks I was doing good. The last two weeks I have been hurting bad, short of breath. So they think I may have some swelling and irritation in there so I go for an echo tomorrow morning. Any body ever experience this where the pain got worse instead of better. BIG HUGS TO ALL OF YOU!!!
