WilliamJE
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I went to the hospital this morning at 10. Didn't get home for four hours.
Highlights or lowlights.
My surgery is AVR- Aorta Valve Replacement. Then it got fuzzy(and I can't find a copy of the consent I signed. Don't remember if I was a copy, for I was getting highly annoyed before I left pre-op for x-ray today. More on that later) Replace or repair descending aorta aneyurism. Joan the pre-op nurse was confused as to what was written and called Dr. Lester's office.
Got a video about my surgery. This I watched after I got home. The person on screen saying I will spend 12-24 hours in Intensive care and 2-5 on the surgical floor. Yes and when I leave after 2 days I'll be dancing a jig. Other than that the video was ok. If being scared more is ok that is, frankly I'm very scared now. right now I got other medical issues, this is not like any other surgery I had before, and the last two I was in the hosp. 10 and 12 days respectively. It wasn't open heart surgery either time, A PE and insertion of a greenfield filter, and an infection in my leg that required me having abcesses drained.
Leonita my wife, who I love very much, was exhausted from my week hosp. stay where the worst part was the first 12 hours and the heart cath. Neither was bad or close to it, but still Leonita barely slept the whole time. What's it going to be like after Wednesday and when I get home?
When they took blood from me today, it took FOUR tries. I was just in the hosp, and it never took more than twice. The first nurse Cindy had me furious after 3, and had to get another nurse(An ICU nurse who said she had 20 years experience and looks like LPGA golfer Dottie Pepper) for a 4th effort and even that barely succeeded. They drew five tubes in try #2, but needed a sixth. That took two more efforts. Afterwards they put a tag on my wrist, when I said to forget it, they say I would have to be typed and crossed again on wednesday. I said I'd take it off and bring it in wednesday. They said they'd still have to do that blood work again. What the @#$$%! I took it off when I came home. The thing is just too irritable, then most of the today was too.
I had an ultrasound of my upper extremities(arms) and chest x ray done too. (Pulmonary function test and Carotid ultrasound were done while I was still in the hosp. last week. A EKG was also done today in the pre-op area) Those were scheduled for tomorrow, but the pre-op while I'm here, why not do it now? As it was, I got both taken care with very slight waiting. I get tomorrow off, yeah!
Hospital only asked me for $20. That and the ultrasound and x-ray were the highlights of today. No I'm not being sarcastic.
By the time I got home I was starved, thirsty, and short of breath because I was so worked up. Don't get worked up someone can say, but four pokes to get blood was beyond the pale today. I've never been like that. Two times is the record, and remember, I go for monthly bloodwork because of my coumadin I'm on and I'm a cancer survivor. Today was a mess.
Enough venting. Now it is time for dinner.
Bill
Highlights or lowlights.
My surgery is AVR- Aorta Valve Replacement. Then it got fuzzy(and I can't find a copy of the consent I signed. Don't remember if I was a copy, for I was getting highly annoyed before I left pre-op for x-ray today. More on that later) Replace or repair descending aorta aneyurism. Joan the pre-op nurse was confused as to what was written and called Dr. Lester's office.
Got a video about my surgery. This I watched after I got home. The person on screen saying I will spend 12-24 hours in Intensive care and 2-5 on the surgical floor. Yes and when I leave after 2 days I'll be dancing a jig. Other than that the video was ok. If being scared more is ok that is, frankly I'm very scared now. right now I got other medical issues, this is not like any other surgery I had before, and the last two I was in the hosp. 10 and 12 days respectively. It wasn't open heart surgery either time, A PE and insertion of a greenfield filter, and an infection in my leg that required me having abcesses drained.
Leonita my wife, who I love very much, was exhausted from my week hosp. stay where the worst part was the first 12 hours and the heart cath. Neither was bad or close to it, but still Leonita barely slept the whole time. What's it going to be like after Wednesday and when I get home?
When they took blood from me today, it took FOUR tries. I was just in the hosp, and it never took more than twice. The first nurse Cindy had me furious after 3, and had to get another nurse(An ICU nurse who said she had 20 years experience and looks like LPGA golfer Dottie Pepper) for a 4th effort and even that barely succeeded. They drew five tubes in try #2, but needed a sixth. That took two more efforts. Afterwards they put a tag on my wrist, when I said to forget it, they say I would have to be typed and crossed again on wednesday. I said I'd take it off and bring it in wednesday. They said they'd still have to do that blood work again. What the @#$$%! I took it off when I came home. The thing is just too irritable, then most of the today was too.
I had an ultrasound of my upper extremities(arms) and chest x ray done too. (Pulmonary function test and Carotid ultrasound were done while I was still in the hosp. last week. A EKG was also done today in the pre-op area) Those were scheduled for tomorrow, but the pre-op while I'm here, why not do it now? As it was, I got both taken care with very slight waiting. I get tomorrow off, yeah!
Hospital only asked me for $20. That and the ultrasound and x-ray were the highlights of today. No I'm not being sarcastic.
By the time I got home I was starved, thirsty, and short of breath because I was so worked up. Don't get worked up someone can say, but four pokes to get blood was beyond the pale today. I've never been like that. Two times is the record, and remember, I go for monthly bloodwork because of my coumadin I'm on and I'm a cancer survivor. Today was a mess.
Enough venting. Now it is time for dinner.
Bill
