Hammy Hancock: I like it!
Sorry about the nausea. I've heard it's more common in young, slim, extremely attractive women with great pedicures.
Well no wonder i felt so devastatingly awful for 24 hours!!
I am a week home now, and all seems to be going well. I've been blessed with some beautiful weather, so i've been walking in the sunshine. Started going down to the corner and back on the first day, 5 times. Worked up to around the block 4 times the next. Now i am up almost a kilometer 3 times a day. Soon I will be doing 1.5 kms 3 times a day, have my fingers crossed that the weather holds for me.
Just getting off the panapoly of meds they sent me to get on the way home, mostly for my tummy it seems to buffer all the anti-inflammatories. Tomorrow i will be down to just iron pills, damn laxatives to go with the iron, and the beta blocker they have me on called bisoprolol. I know most folks here are put on metroprolol, and get off it eventually, but my md tells me i will be on this always. and my crestor still for cholesterol. But they did take me off both adalat for high bp and olmesarten, an ace inhibitor, that i took daily pre-surgery. Once all the post surgery meds are done, I will be on fewer meds than before!
I've been blessed to be able to sleep in my own bed since i got home, and the stairs dont seem too bad once a day or so. I dont have much bruising around my incision, but do seem to get most of my pain a few inches out from it over my breasts. And numbness too. The egg at the top of my incision hasnt gone down any yet, .....what are everyones experiences re: the egg, incision numbness and pain??
All in all, and i know a few mech valvers will want to smack me for sayin, but I think can do this again if i have to next time. If the technology has not advanced to the point where I can go TAVR, I might go ON-X next time, though. I know, its the opposite of the age vs valve choice norm, but my gut tells me its been right for me. Third time however, doesnt sound charming.