Well, it is all over!

[njean]

Congratulations & glad to know the worse is overwith. I hope that you have a good & uneventful recovery & can get on with you life as usual.

Stay well & don't try to do too much. Easy does it!

 

[BigOwl]

The tone of your post is encouraging--chest tube or no. Congratulations on making it, and best wishes for your recovery. May it be uneventful, simple, and peaceful.

 

[Dina]

Yay! Good to hear good news

 

[Braveheart]

Al- What I had was a pneumothorax. I did not have any particular symptoms that I could discern, but it was necessary to keep the chest tube in for a few days more than usual.

Pneumothorax is the collection of air or gas in the space around the lungs.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000087.htm

 

[COLLEEN S]

Over the hump! Welcome and best wishes for continued recovery!

 

[barb]

So glad it is behind you. I'm 2 weeks exactly ahead of you and can assure you it gets better each day. Keeping you in my thoughts for a complete recovery.

 

[Braveheart]

I am going to see a new cardio this Tuesday. I decided to change docs, even though I like my original one. "Why", you ask. When I checked the papers given to me by CC I found that the folks at CC considered the equipment that my old cardio used for the echo obsolete, and the pictures, "poor". (I DID sort of scratch my head when the echo was given to me on a VHS tape).

I suppose that was why when I got to CC, with only a "tentative" appointment for surgery, they did an echo that seemed to go on forever. Apparently, the more modern equipment described a picture of my condition that was worse than the echo sent by my original cardiologist.

This cardio group where I am going seems more "cutting edge" than the original group that I saw. If echos are going to be an important part of my
health testing, I certainly want ones that show what is happening accurately.