My great surgeon from '05 just called after checking all my echos and scans, and what was done in surgery nearly 5 years ago, and that thingie the local cardio folks thought was a 5.1 cm is NOT!!! Repeat NOT! It is actually the replacement thingie (dacron graft) he installed back then and it is working just dandy!!! He thinks they overestimated the size anyway -- it's 4.8 -- but it is part of the game plan, not a ticking bomb. I don't know all the technicalities -- he is going to send me a letter explaining in more detail. But I am thrilled, and my family is happy, and Superdawg is happy.
Thank you, thank you, thank you all for all your prayers, good thoughts, best wishes, advice, etc. I really thought I was headed for repeat surgery. Not for a while, hopefully. He says just to get a repeat echo in a year. Whew! --- well I won't be joking in advance about the next one, hot blonde techs and all that, for sure.
Thank you, thank you, thank you all for all your prayers, good thoughts, best wishes, advice, etc. I really thought I was headed for repeat surgery. Not for a while, hopefully. He says just to get a repeat echo in a year. Whew! --- well I won't be joking in advance about the next one, hot blonde techs and all that, for sure.
