Johnny Stephens
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OK, so I'm 6 days away from the big day. I'll be having my AVR on Tuesday (4/16) of next week. I'm actually checking-in to UWMC on Monday the 15th to have my angiogram and other prep-work done. I get to have my night-before anxiety all to myself, apparently, rather than being with my family.
Because I haven't had the angio yet, I still don't know whether I have coronary artery disease that will require bypass work at the same time. My family history indicates this would likely be a problem for me later in my 60s, perhaps, but I've had no chest pain or angina.
I'm in kind of a weird place mentally. I'm winding down at work, getting everybody ready to carry themselves while I'm out; I find myself worrying more about how they will possibly be able to do their jobs for so long without me!
Questions to my surgeon's staff about my upcoming momentous event are brushed aside as routine and 'no big deal.' I'm making it a point to take reassurance in that..this is so routine for them that it really is no big deal.
Nervous? Yes. Preoccupied? hmmm....yes. Scared? No.
Hey, is that 'the mountain' over there?
Because I haven't had the angio yet, I still don't know whether I have coronary artery disease that will require bypass work at the same time. My family history indicates this would likely be a problem for me later in my 60s, perhaps, but I've had no chest pain or angina.
I'm in kind of a weird place mentally. I'm winding down at work, getting everybody ready to carry themselves while I'm out; I find myself worrying more about how they will possibly be able to do their jobs for so long without me!
Questions to my surgeon's staff about my upcoming momentous event are brushed aside as routine and 'no big deal.' I'm making it a point to take reassurance in that..this is so routine for them that it really is no big deal.
Nervous? Yes. Preoccupied? hmmm....yes. Scared? No.
Hey, is that 'the mountain' over there?