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I see soo many varying dates since people have taken the plunge.

My goal for the thread would be to ask those that are over 1 year out of surgery just to let some of us newbies know how they feel overall and if their lives are back to normal?

I'm wondering how I will feel a year removed from surgery. Will I feel stronger. Will I feel more nervous than I did before the surgery. Will I feel like an invalid (sp?). Will I go about my normal life like before the big day.

Just trying to see how people get back to life after the surgery.
 
I'm 16 years out. It's been a great life. I got my kids raised and out of the house! (Unfortunately they're too far out of the house, not close around like I'd planned.) My children were in Kindergarten and 2nd grade when I had my surgery and I was pretty sick prior to it. But it was really nice to get life back to normal. It's been a very busy, happy, fulfilling life.
 
I was two years post op February 21, 2008 so I am a babe compared to some. I am in better shape now than in years. At 52 (almost) I do everything I did before surgery and more?.golf, fishing etc??I do not feel restricted in the least. Life is good. No complaints.
 
It took me right about a year to really feel great again. After 6 months I went up and down but finally around a year things settled down and I felt good enough to do pretty much everything. It has been full speed ahead since.
My first surgery was when I was 5 so I really don't remember how that one went lol (it was 49 years ago)
 
Wow this is so good to hear. I am having my on April 10th and it is posts like this that make me feel it will be worth it


Thanks so much
Just
Kathy M
 
For sure I can say that after 4 months when I first went back to the gym I could walk at the same speed (4 miles an hour) at a slightly greater incline. I can now do it at quite a bit greater incline. So, for me that is proof.

However, I can say that although I hadn't started doing as much as normally after three weeks, I felt absolutely great (just a sore sternum). I realized about 6 or 7 weeks after the surgery when doing a lot of shopping downtown (took the bus), that I was exhausted afterwards, but I had really been on my feet a long time.
 
Well believe it or not, I'm ALMOST 1 year post-op (2 weeks shy).
And its been just the last two months that I feel like myself again.

Everyone is different in the healing process, so please keep that in mind.
 
I am 22months out..and feel better than Ever!! It did take a full year till I felt really good though. But I can be a slow learner LOL
 
It was about a year before I could say I felt "fully recovered". I'm 2 years out now and OHS is a thing of the past. The only residule effect is my keloid incision scar which is still a bit tender and itchy. The heart itself is as good as new.
 
My mom is almost 3 years out, and she was sicker than sick prior to surgery. Had to be on a balloon heart pump right before surgery-her heart was that bad. Could not even walk across the street without stopping. Now she can outpace me walking. :) She had bumps along the way-but that surgery saved her life!-woohoo:) :) Deb
 
Feeling better than ever

Feeling better than ever

May 12th will be my two year anniversary. I had a 5-day hospital stay, textbook recovery (NOTHING works like walking, walking and more walking -- it's the secret to a great recovery) and my surgery feels like a lifetime ago (I was 43 at the time). Overall, I was surprised at how good I felt throughout the whole process: yes, it was a cruddy first week and tough to get comfortable sleeping for that first month...but if you're in pretty good shape pre-surgery and everything goes as well as most of these surgeries do (and you breathe, nap and walk during those first important weeks), you'll be back to many normal activities sooner than you'd think.

I'd say I felt pretty much back to normal after about 6 months.

Kristine
 
Almost three years for me. I recently saw a medical report regarding myself and was slightly startled to read that it was considered that I wasn't fit for a GA prior to my OHS so the surgery was kill or cure - obviously in my case cure. :)

I still can't play the piano, but then I never could!

So healthwise how do I feel? Once the messing about with my complication resolved I just got better and my younger brother commented how I had 'walked him off his feet' and he was attending a gym on a regular basis. So I guess I am absolutely fine, haven't had so much as a head cold.
 
this is from a thread I started at 5 months out - it is now just over 6; nothing to add except that I am (and was) 52 years old, and that I have had diarrhea since I cam out of hospital - which now seems to be slowly, very slowly, getting better.

"5 months ago today, about this time, I was in the admitting room at the hospital, being told to put my hospital attire on, because they were getting ready for me in OR, and I would be getting wheeled up there soon.......

today, I am wondering if I really want to go out in the freezing rain storm we are having, and am more worried about the back that I put out last weekend than my heart problems (heart problem, me, really???)

Sorry to tell all the people who have had bumps on the road, I haven't seen one yet; operated Sept. 6th, discharged Sept 12th, working a little (from home) on Sept 13th, opened new retail store October 1st (seven days a week until Christmas), and haven't stopped since - until I put my back out last weekend ! I even did a mammoth shopping expedition on Sept 27th, in and out of stores from 9 am until 5 pm, getting last-minute things for the store, like tissue paper, stools, cash register tape etc.

Must admit, though, to having had a problem or two with coumadin - or rather my coumadin management people, but I think I have that one straightened out now. . ."

That mammoth shopping trip did tire me out! I was using public transportation on a regular basis from about 3 weeks out (but not for that shopping trip :) ), and my heart huggy pillow went everywhere with me for about 2 months.

I also have to say I have the best husband in the world - sorry to all you wonderful guys out there in vr.com-land, I love you all, but my DH comes first on MY list
 
One year plus

One year plus

I'm about 14 months out, and feel fine. I have yet to finish a marathon post op, but that is on my to do list this year (New York in November)....I ran 7 before surgery. I always felt good after surgery, but never really got my running back until one year...it was truly amazing that week how much better my running felt!
 
My surgery was three years ago today. I have never felt better! I used to get colds and sinus infections every six monts like clock work. I have had very few since my surgery. In addition, I would get out of breath simply by cutting the grass or standing in one place for more than a couple of minutes. No more of that stuff. Regardless of how old I live to be, God used the surgery to keep me around longer than I would have lived without it.:) :) :) I have much to be thankful for!

Karl
 
I'm 21 months out.. and I feel the best I have in years at least heart wise.
I will be 2 years in June and I'll celebrate again at that time. Its just great to be ticking and alive!!!!!
 
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