Ten days post-op now, fifth day out of the hospital, and I finally got out of the house for a couple of hours. I live in a 4th floor walk up so I had to walk down, then to the subway and down some more. Took the subway to Atlantic Ave, window shopped in the Guitar Center, Target and Best Buy...
I'll be seeing my surgeon again on the 11th and I'll see if I can get more details then. I don't get it myself but as I recall he said that in Japan all OHS is done without a bypass machine.
Right now I'm concentrating on getting myself back into shape. Until about four weeks before surgery...
Back home one week after surgery. I actually left the hospital two days ago but spent the first couple of nights at a friend's apartment near mine. I live in a 4th floor walk up and my friend lives in an elevated building, not that I went outside at all while I was there.
My surgeon says...
I just found this site a few days ago and it took until a couple hours ago for moderator to get around to approving my registration.
I'm having aortic valve replacement, a section of my aorta (it's 5.2 cm) replaced and a triple bypass starting about 12 hours from now at the NYU Medical Center...