Good for you, Doug. Acting normal translates to being normal.
Now get outta there and get back home before they do anything stupid!
Best wishes,
Now get outta there and get back home before they do anything stupid!
Best wishes,
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Doug, you are certainly ahead of where I was at two days. I don't think I had two coherent thoughts strung together until day three. It is good to hear that you can feel the difference. So rest, exercise and eat better food than I had. I look forward to hearing more from you as you recover.
Larry
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Hi Doug,
Sounds like you're doing well and that is great. Hope you have a smooth recovery!
Luana
Sounds like you're doing well and that is great. Hope you have a smooth recovery!
Luana
I have been lucky that they are not using heavy duty pain killers. They are giving me a pill form of Nordic? (I will have to look that up.) Nothing like the demerol I had in 1988, there I was so fuzzy, it took me 4 days to have a complete thought. So when I get a moment I can get online, but Baylor has a lot of blocks on the internet and that makes it interesting trying to send some emails.
The nurses are doing a good job of making sure I don't over do it, plus my wife has been keep very close tabs on me.
The nurses are doing a good job of making sure I don't over do it, plus my wife has been keep very close tabs on me.
I agree with others -- amazing and wonderful that you can post just 2 days out. Sending best wishes for continued smooth recovery.
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I'm impressed, you're coming along beautifully... just don't overdo it!
Lorraine
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Welcome to this side of the mountain! I would consider that truck was a hit and run! I am impressed too with you being able to post on day two. I still couldn't even focus on TV, or to read! Prayers for a BM so you can leave that place!.
.BlindFaith
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Amazing. And as others have said, I too still had problems thinking or typing even when I first got home a week later. But be cautious, take everything slow, slow... A week after getting home, I was too ambitious and walked 2 1/2 miles. Was not a very good idea. Slow and steady. Good luck, Doug.
Nupur
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Wow, great to see everyone posting so soon after surgery. That "pumphead" thing hasb't hit you if you can write such long excellent posts : ) Glad to see everything is well. Best wishes for a speedy recovery!
Nicholas288
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Great Job Doug
Good to hear you are doing well.
Nick
Good to hear you are doing well.
Nick
Star54
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Wow..you are doing fantastic! Amazing...keep up the speedy recovery!
Hi, I went into A Fib this morning, so they are going to hang on to me for another day or two. They have been messing with the meds all day. I still have a drain tube in me and still retaining fluids, but it is tapering off.
kfay
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Hang in there Doug...this too shall pass. I had to keep one of my chest tubes for 7 days and the other two for 5 because I had so much fluid. Hopefully, they will get your a-fib under control quickly.
Hope it's an easy fix. I had A-fib the day I got home from the hospital and had to be readmitted to be put on a medication temporarily for it. They also gave me magnesium IVs. Take care
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A-fib sems to be the norm, Doug. Hang in there the meds will fix it.
The meds took care of it about 7:00 pm last night. They are using Amiodarone. They used a drip and then gave me a pill about noon today. They took me off the drip about 4 pm and will observe how the pill is working.
Anyway another day in the hospital. The drainage from the chest tube finally slowed down significantly and that makes it good too.
I think I am about the only one on the floor who is totally mobile, I don't have to drag anything with me to go for a walk. They have a lot of sick people around here.
They want me to walk 400 feet several times a day, so I have getting in around 2200 feet everyday. I have to take it pretty slow, if I even hint that I may try to exert myself I get a little short of breath. Some of the nurses have mistaken me for a visitor, I wear normal clothes during the day and I can hide the telemetry equipment in pockets and such.
Anyway another day in the hospital. The drainage from the chest tube finally slowed down significantly and that makes it good too.
I think I am about the only one on the floor who is totally mobile, I don't have to drag anything with me to go for a walk. They have a lot of sick people around here.
They want me to walk 400 feet several times a day, so I have getting in around 2200 feet everyday. I have to take it pretty slow, if I even hint that I may try to exert myself I get a little short of breath. Some of the nurses have mistaken me for a visitor, I wear normal clothes during the day and I can hide the telemetry equipment in pockets and such.
river-wear
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Doug, stealth patient!
It's good to hear that you're up and around.
It's good to hear that you're up and around.
Stealth patient, indeed; something about how you worded this, Doug, just cracked me up
. Continued best wishes.
It is good to hear you are walking well, Doug. I think walking helped me more than just about anything else I did. And you are right, changing into ones own clothes leaves some of the staff assuming you are a visitor. My sister in law visited me after surgery and was surprised to find me in my own clothes and walking around. Her first comment was "You don't look sick!" It is amazing how a new valve can leave you feeling. I hope you have a wonderful holiday, Doug.
