How long were you in the hospital?

[Enudely]

After my first surgery, I was only in the hospital for four days. Is this pretty average, or were you in longer?

 

[Bina]

Hello,
I was supposed to go home after 7-9 days, but my INR was low and I ended up staying in for 16 days.
The longer stay was fine with me since I was very nervous to go home and live so far away from the hospital.
I believe that the average is about one week....without complications of course.

 

[Superbob]

This question has come up before on the forums, and my impression is that the answer varies greatly.

I was in the hospital 5 days. Barely got out late on 5th day because I had to show them my oxygen intake had reached a high enough level. Did a lot of walking around the nurses station that day.

 

[Phyllis]

It depends upon your recovery, but without complications the average seems to be 5 days.

 

[Smiley2000]

I was in ICU for 5 days and in normal ward for another 5 days. Even though I am still young (32) I had low Sat. levels and on oxygen most of the time.

 

[hall]

I was in 3 days before surgery and 7 days after. I think everyone is different.

 

[kfay]

There is no way to know in advance how long you will be in the hospital. This last one, I went in planning for 5-6 and stayed for 9. My first one I was in the hospital for a total of 21 miserable days, but that is when they actually used to let you stay in the hospital!

Kim

 

[diegocentrico]

i stayed in hospital 2 days before and 4 days after the surgery. it could be longer but i insisted to leave.

 

[Faye]

I was planning on 4 - 5 days but ended up staying 21 days due to complications with my lungs and an infection.

 

[Freddie]

Are you including the surgery day? If not, I was in for 3 days and home by 10:00am on the 4th day.

 

[WayneGM]

I was admitted, and had surgery, on the Monday and was discharged the following Sunday. I was told I stayed an extra 2 days from the norm due to a low grade fever.

 

[SumoRunner]

I was in 7 days but it was the surgeons fault. They had collapsed one of my lungs in the procedure so my O2 count was pretty low. It took me 3 mos to fully reinflate the thing.

 

[JeffM]

There are so many factors that determine how long a stay one has after surgery. I think I was one of the quick release ones. Surgery was Friday and I went home Monday.

 

[Eva]

My surgeon told me that I would stay in the hospital 3-4 days. I stayed ten days, as my INR was very low and he did not want to discharge me before it went up. Anyhow, I did not mind that, since anytime I felt anything, I asked the nurses and the doctors, while at home I would have become anxious about every little symptom.

Good luck

 

[WilliamJE]

I was in for 16 days, heart arrhythmia, pneumonia, my INR level too low.

 

[geckley]

I was in for 2 months the first time 1971. I was 2 years old and had muliple complications and some other organ failures. The second time in 2005 I was in for 7 days. Then this November I was in for 14 days. I was set to go home in 6 but the pacemaker caused me to stay in another week. Sent home on Lovenox injections twice a day until INR was over 2.0. That being said there were people that were in longer than me with double bypases. I beleive it's how your body reacts.

 

[cp172]

I was in the hospital 7 days. It would have been a shorter stay but my chest tube drainage would not drop to acceptable levels.

 

[Adrienne]

Not counting the night before the surgery, I spent 5 days (and nights) in the hospital, the first of those 5 being in ICU.

 

[Jackie]

I spent one week prior to surgery and two weeks after, the last three day were spent trying to raise my INR.

 

[KAJ]

I was in the hospital for one week, but for 5 days after surgery. I flew home, was home for 24 hours then take by ambulance to new hospital 15 minutes from my home. I had complications (congestive heart failure) from the surgery, I stayed there for nine days.

Karl