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    vhmoriarty's surgery

    Dear Everyone, This is Bill, Valerie's husband. I am sorry to tell everyone that we lost Valerie this morning due to multiple organ failure and a heart attack. She was sedated, and didn't feel any pain. We will not be checking up much on the net for a few days, as we will be extremely busy...
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    vhmoriarty's surgery

    This was posted to her Facebook: "Bad news good news. Bad news: There was a problem. They had to go back and restitch a valve. Her blood pressure dropped, and she stopped breathing. They had to do a heart cath, and she is back on the ventilator. Good news: When they restitched the valve...
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    vhmoriarty's surgery

    Hi, I'm Bill, Valerie's Husband. I posted this on her FB wall, and just wanted to keep everyone updated. "UPDATE: Sorry I haven't been able to update today. No signal in the ICU waiting room. Valerie is doing well. She had a small complication at first but, as for right now, all is good. She...
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    Cath today

    Thinking of you!
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    Thanks for Everything Guys - See ya on the other side

    Ok guys and gals. Its 9pm EST....I go in at 5 am for my Ross Procedure. We have all the bases covered. Someone will be updating my facebook and I have friends from here that are on there....so they will be able to keep everyone posted. My husband will post his post probally Saturday evening...
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    Thanks for Everything Guys - See ya on the other side

    Thanks for all the help, jokes, questions being answered almost repeatively cause I needed to know for sure, lol. the laughs.... and everything else. Watch for dcpickles updates on me. He is on my facebook and will be getting texts about how my surgery is going. He will post them on here...
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    Packing

    thanks guys....i think I packed, repacked, and packed again yesterday....and may repack again tonight. i did get some babypowder for the oily hair. and some of the no rinse shampoo also. word puzzles and one book that i have been reading on. and Spray on Deodrant....yeppee, cause Im making...
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    Kiwi Girl's Ross procedure: November 12th, 2009

    Thinking of you....cant wait till you are over the mountain!
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    Packing

    I normally have just been taking the xanax they gave me to sleep. They gave me something that started with a D in the hospital to make me sleep, then loaded me on lasix...yeah not a good combination, someone was messed up with that one, lol :p
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    Packing

    I have to take a shower the night before and the morning of surgery with this soap they gave me. But I am a total hygiene freak, so I can see me taking like three baths tommorow, lol. And the no deodrant thing is going to plain suck for me,lol. :p Thanks guys!
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    Packing

    Thanks guys. I have this one pair of pjs that has pockets that I thought would fit the heart monitor thing down in it. I dont have a pillow, I was told they would give me one there. We shall see, cause hubby may be running to the flowershop in the hospital to get me one of those stiff bears...
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    Packing

    Yes first off I read the other thread, lol. I have the following packed: One pair of pjs....top longsleeves with pants Three pairs of underwear Houseshoes Socks Notebook with every phone number, living will, insurance cards, med list, etc Toothbrush Toothpaste Hairbrush My spirontometer (sp?)...
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    Heparin

    There is a shot you can give yourself in the stomach...yeah not fun at all. I used to have to do my late husbands for about 4 days before surgery twice daily. They are really expensive though, like for 15 its $1500.00. Now our insurance paid for it, but still that was crazy. It was called...
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    Surgery Thursday

    You must be the girl my guardian angel Jeni has talked about. Im having the Ross Procedure done on Friday. Wishing you the best of luck
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    Cold Night Sweats....Um Why?

    Yeah I have this freaking left eye twitch that has been coming and going for about six months now. Basically when I started getting this shortness of breath. But the night sweats have just started happening in the last week, so pretty sure that it may be nerves, just didnt know if anyone else...
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