Magic8Ball
Well-known member
Well It's Saturday here and i'm due to be admitted on Sunday at 2pm for a Bentalls with DHCA on Monday.
I'm calm, i'm happy, i'm rested and most of this can be attributed to this site and the people on it.
I have over the past two months gone from crying in the car and writing goodbye letters to the kids to being totally content with the procedure i'm about to have and looking forward to my life afterwards and the added energy i may have.
This site gave me the confidence to ask the right questions, to search for a second surgeon and to assess the differences between the procedures my two surgeons suggested with some form of an educated mind rather than to be transfixed by the smokescreen that often decends when you are sat infront of a surgeon.
I'd like to simply say thankyou to Hank for setting this thing up and also thankyou to everyone who spends the time to post even after they have had their surgery and have a life to get on with.
I think everyone in our situation should be pointed towards this site as a portal of information to calm the nerves and relax the brain.
I'm expecting to be back home by Saturday 26th November (my birthday) which will be six days although it could be Monday if i'm a little slow on the recovery front, on of those roll a dice things i guess.
One question, do we get to reduce our age after we have had such a major overhaul on the surgeons table? a bit like replacing the engine on a car and getting the chance to roll the odometer back a few thousand clicks....i fancy being 26 again, 36 just sounds too dam old (although too dam young for heart surgery)...probably one i should ask the cardio eh ?
See you all on the other side of the hill with a scar, a tick tock and a nervous twitch from the lack of caffine and beer.....
I'm calm, i'm happy, i'm rested and most of this can be attributed to this site and the people on it.
I have over the past two months gone from crying in the car and writing goodbye letters to the kids to being totally content with the procedure i'm about to have and looking forward to my life afterwards and the added energy i may have.
This site gave me the confidence to ask the right questions, to search for a second surgeon and to assess the differences between the procedures my two surgeons suggested with some form of an educated mind rather than to be transfixed by the smokescreen that often decends when you are sat infront of a surgeon.
I'd like to simply say thankyou to Hank for setting this thing up and also thankyou to everyone who spends the time to post even after they have had their surgery and have a life to get on with.
I think everyone in our situation should be pointed towards this site as a portal of information to calm the nerves and relax the brain.
I'm expecting to be back home by Saturday 26th November (my birthday) which will be six days although it could be Monday if i'm a little slow on the recovery front, on of those roll a dice things i guess.
One question, do we get to reduce our age after we have had such a major overhaul on the surgeons table? a bit like replacing the engine on a car and getting the chance to roll the odometer back a few thousand clicks....i fancy being 26 again, 36 just sounds too dam old (although too dam young for heart surgery)...probably one i should ask the cardio eh ?
See you all on the other side of the hill with a scar, a tick tock and a nervous twitch from the lack of caffine and beer.....
