DeWayne
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Well I know that my wife, Gwen has kept you abreast of the happenings of and since my surgery. She is a great wife 
Emotional day, coming home. Seem to take forever to check me out, my surgeon told me at 8:10 AM I could go home, finally got out the door around 3 PM , just enough to beat rush hour from downtown Atlanta.
Was sure great to get home, I basically walked up the stairs, then back down, then found my basement recliner and slept for awhile lol. Probably one of the most restful couple hours I had in many days.
Here is is past midnight and now I am wide awake and feeling pretty danged good. Pain hasn't been too terrible the past couple days, Today I think I took 5 pain pills total since about 3 am (now 1 am the next day). When you cough, that is when you know how much pain you are in. I found strangely sitting on the comode in the bathroom with a pillow, for some reason the angle just worked right for getting the cough out with a little less of a problem.
Foods still pretty much don't taste right yet which is a bit of a bummer. Strangely the one thing that seems to taste the worst is anything with sugar in it. Cokes don't taste right, shoot straight sugar out of the packet tastes nothing like it should lol
Thing I didn't realize before hand is how much weight one put on during surgery. My feet are still pretty swollen yet, but improving. Hands and stuff are back to about normal. They said I put on almost 25# through the surgery. And seeing how I weighed in at 164 that was a bunch!
I don't know if doctors, nurses and techs tell everyone the same thing but they sure seemed overjoyed with how things went. If not the the small bout of A-fib, I would have been home Monday, I already had release papers on Wednesday when it returned and they cancelled my leave and changed my medication. But Once I returned to sinus rhythm I stayed there. So hopefully that part is behind me forever.
But from the minute I woke up last Friday in ICU they were amazed. I came out of surgery I guess shortly after 5pm Thursday, and woke up around 2:30 AM. I guess within a half hour they wanted to move something, don't recall what, I told them I could stand up so they could do it, I did. they seemed blown away that I could do that at that point. By 6 am they told me I was ready for the main floor, but they were waiting on a room. Man I never knew ice chips could be so darn delicious, and hard to come by lol
Anyway I will put more out there later, had to get some words down, at least what I could remember! I do have small periods of slight mental confusion. Most of which have been pretty funny.
Emotional day, coming home. Seem to take forever to check me out, my surgeon told me at 8:10 AM I could go home, finally got out the door around 3 PM , just enough to beat rush hour from downtown Atlanta.
Was sure great to get home, I basically walked up the stairs, then back down, then found my basement recliner and slept for awhile lol. Probably one of the most restful couple hours I had in many days.
Here is is past midnight and now I am wide awake and feeling pretty danged good. Pain hasn't been too terrible the past couple days, Today I think I took 5 pain pills total since about 3 am (now 1 am the next day). When you cough, that is when you know how much pain you are in. I found strangely sitting on the comode in the bathroom with a pillow, for some reason the angle just worked right for getting the cough out with a little less of a problem.
Foods still pretty much don't taste right yet which is a bit of a bummer. Strangely the one thing that seems to taste the worst is anything with sugar in it. Cokes don't taste right, shoot straight sugar out of the packet tastes nothing like it should lol
Thing I didn't realize before hand is how much weight one put on during surgery. My feet are still pretty swollen yet, but improving. Hands and stuff are back to about normal. They said I put on almost 25# through the surgery. And seeing how I weighed in at 164 that was a bunch!
I don't know if doctors, nurses and techs tell everyone the same thing but they sure seemed overjoyed with how things went. If not the the small bout of A-fib, I would have been home Monday, I already had release papers on Wednesday when it returned and they cancelled my leave and changed my medication. But Once I returned to sinus rhythm I stayed there. So hopefully that part is behind me forever.
But from the minute I woke up last Friday in ICU they were amazed. I came out of surgery I guess shortly after 5pm Thursday, and woke up around 2:30 AM. I guess within a half hour they wanted to move something, don't recall what, I told them I could stand up so they could do it, I did. they seemed blown away that I could do that at that point. By 6 am they told me I was ready for the main floor, but they were waiting on a room. Man I never knew ice chips could be so darn delicious, and hard to come by lol
Anyway I will put more out there later, had to get some words down, at least what I could remember! I do have small periods of slight mental confusion. Most of which have been pretty funny.
