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Ha Ha Ha , watch out laughing hurts too.

Pellicle, you have it pegged right. It is good to know that this is going along just the way it should, when you have no idea its good to hear from someone who been there done that.

My surgeon said my INR should be between 2.5 and 3.5. It's seems I'm having problems getting up there. 4/22--1.7 2.5 4x week 4/26--1.7 5 that day and 2.5 every day 5/5----1.5 7.5 that day and 5-Mon, Wed, Fri and Sat; 2.5-Tues, Thurs and Sun 5/11--1.9 7.5 that day and...

Well I'm back. It's been 1 month since my surgery and it was one hell of a ride. 4 days in SCU and 4 days in a room before I got to go home. I developed some kind of rash during surgery over my whole body that they couldn't figure out that lasted about 2 hours otherwise everything went fine...

Well tomorrow is the big day and the only thing I'm stressed about is my family. They have come up with the perfect way of keeping me from getting nervous about my surgery, their all having problems: my mother in law got admitted into the hospital this morning with fluid in her lungs and an...

@ epstns I live 13' off the ground so I too no what its like to climb those stairs, actually their part of my exercise routine. Go up the back stairs walk around the house come down the front. I live in Lafitte, La and we flooded a few times for the hurricanes, but no more.

hope all is well down under mate

Thanks to all of you so much. In my family I am the ROCK. I hold everything together and am tough, but all of this has thrown me for a loop. I am the kind of person that needs to know all the information I can find out about what is going to happen, the good, bad and ugly. You have all helped...

I have a 28yr old daughter with a mild case of cerebral palsey who can't wait to be my nurse and my husband will be able to get time off of work to stay with me until I am able to do for myself. I am keeping an eye out for your post, I find them very informative. they're are a few others I...

I've seen some post about rehab. What kind of things are they talking about, and it was for 36 weeks. I am a very active person and over all healthy. Previous surgeries have all been ortho: Left and right rotator cups and carpal tunnel, ruptured disc in lower back, elbow and trigger release in...

What about the chest pain? How bad is it? What kind of movement am I looking at because I hear different things. What about constipation being on the pain meds? Should I be taking something like a stool softener now. Surgery is in 3 days.

the closer it gets the more freaked out I'm getting. the booklet the doctor gave says I should be getting good nights rest but I haven't been able to sleep. I'm lucky to get 4 hours a night, my mind just won't shut off.

Well I've been pretty busy since I was last on this site but I'm back. I will be having my surgery on Wednesday, April 13 and I am ready. Thanks to this site my fear of Coumadin has been put to rest. The funny thing is we just found out my mom will be getting a TAVR procedure done in the next...

Thank you all so much. I have been getting such great information from everyone that you all have allayed many of my fears. I will be having surgery on my thumb this Friday for trigger finger because I didn't want to deal with the trouble of coming off of the Coumadin before a surgery.

I must have been reading the wrong things. I thought I couldn't eat greens and fried foods and olive oil and a whole lot of other things. Is there something that I have at home to check my blood or do I have to go to a lab every week?

I will be 55 in a month and have a (4.2) aneurysm in my thoracic bicuspid aortic valve and a Myocardial Bridge. The surgery will be in the next couple of weeks. The surgery will be scary I know, but the doc will also fix the bridge when he's in there. The doctor recommends the Mechanical Valve...