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I got home from the hospital
...about an hour ago What a miserable...fucking...day. I arrived at 6:00 AM as called for. I was booked in and prepped for surgery which took two full hours. Surgery began at 8:00 AM and ended at around 11:15. I was taken to a recovery room where I spent the next number of hours flat on my back and was told not to move or lift my head. During those hours at some point two nurses came in and told me they were there to remove a tube that was intentionally left in to plug the entry point of an artery in my groin. They fucked it up and I began to bleed...not outside my skin but on the inside. One of them...one strong bitch...applied pressure by hand on my groin...they called in a third nurse to assist them and the next hour they worked feverishly to get my blood pressure down to a level that the could repair the damage. This hurt like a son of a bitch on top of the severe pain I suffer with 24/7. They got things repaired and told me I would have to continue laying flat on my back...not moving...and not to lift my head...until 6:30 PM. My back is the major cause of the pain I suffer with 24/7 and I normally cannot lay down more than a couple of hours at best before my back starts screaming...which it did after a couple of hours. I tell the nurse that I cannot lay there until 6:30 so she had to go to plan B. She did not have a plan B and said I just had to bear it.
At 5:00 PM I started yelling out and a nurse came in that had replaced the other nurse because it was time for a shift change. I told the new nurse what had been going on and about my back etc. and that I was going to get up and walk out of the hospital and be damned the consequences and I started to rise and she quickly pushed me back down. She asked me if being put on my side would help me with the pain in my back. WELL HELL yes it would but the other nurse said I had to be flat on my back...motionless and not to even raise my head. The nurse said no that...I of course be on my side...and not move or lift my head. I then managed to stick it out till 6:30 just to then learn that I could now get out of bed only to sit quietly in a chair or I could use the bathroom which I desperately needed to do...and that I could not get dressed or leave until the Surgeon cane by to see me At 7:30 he showed up and told me that they wanted to put six stints in me but once they saw a dye map of my arteries...they were to damaged so they only put in four. Basically he said my arteries through out my body are terribly damaged from to many years of smoking and not much of anything can be done about it. He said that maybe they could perform a couple of by passes to my heart when the time comes for it to begin to fail. I told him no thanks I will work with what I have as long as I have it or can tolerate having it. |
hope all that puffing was worth it. :2 cents:
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That sounds like a hell of a crappy day.
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Today a girl touched me in my happy place. |
what a day.....
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I must say, poor guy, your luck is really bad!
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I have had 3 angiograms/lower drip arteriograms and 1 Peripheral angioplasty (PA) with stents -- 4 times! You have described that procedure to a tee. |
WOW, really bad day, hum? :(
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The surgeon left a tube in you? Wonder why he didn't close with an Angio-Seal?
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Thanks, I couldn't think of what that was called. I wanted to say a "grommet" it's like a grommet a 'sheath" they guide the catheter tube and wire into your arteries through it then seal it when they finish like a cork in a bottle. The catheter assembly is like a scientific roto rooter and you can feel the damn thing sliding around as they work. They gave me a Demerol drip IV -- no fun at all. |
And there's not a single other person in the world who cares, so you let a message board where no one cares know.
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Must have been a while back, they don't much use D any more, at least not where I am. It's all morphine these days. Morphine does bad things to my nerves, but back in the day that demerol was pretty good stuff as I recall. TheKing, shoot me a note to [email protected] when you get a chance. |
I just took a shit!
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If this story would not make smokers stop smoking then... How stupid should one be to start smoking knowing the damage?
Einstein was right about endless stupidity in the world. |
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The guy might come off as a jerk here more often than not, but nobody deserves bad health. Watch that your life choices don't result in you shitting your pants every time your vehicle passes over a bump :2 cents: . |
High dose, high CBD ratio, cannabis oil AKA RSO - Rick Simpson Oil could save you and mend your arteries with no need for bypasses, stents or meds...no blood thinners no lipitor etc - I'm super well versed in this field if you want more info let me know.
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Get well soon
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I?ve had 3 peripheral angioplasty surgeries and 1 by-pass in the last year and half. Probably will need more PA soon. I think my body is rejecting the stints and blood is clotting at them. I do ok for a month after surgery then my legs start getting blocked again and they have to go back in the same area to clean it out. |
Let's look at the upside.... You are alive so that's good.
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Nothing wrong with being gay, but this constant in-your-face shit gets old real fast. . |
i ate one of those huge 7-11 burritos. next day was violent :( :helpme :1orglaugh they are good but they need a warning label :disgust
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You'd think someone in adult wouldn't be so homophobic. I'll give you a pass though, since you grew up in the 1920s |
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They did Cryoplasty for me http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23934945 I specifically asked for that, my cardiologist looked a bit puzzled by the request. That is why it cost $44k? There were 2 doctors/surgeons present and a lot of discussion on the best way to proceed for the two hours in surgery to do one leg in 2 places. Bottom line -- that was two years ago and I have improved in my walking time without IC a lot. Restenosis is common in PAD. So, I think it was the Cryoplasty as I doubt it being just my "good luck" ... I am pretty sure the Doctor said Demerol I was surprised also -- yes the wire snaking in your arteries and the compression of the balloon to the artery wall. |
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And yea, on Plavix with an aspirin kicker. I also take a statin and blood pressure meds. |
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That sucks ... I guess I got lucky (so far) with my "repair job" :Oh crap I am 71%L and 84%R so it's within tolerance ... |
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It's quite sad that someone who is nearing the end of their life, lives a life so empty and devoid of human warmth and contact, that he has to continually use gfy as a twitter feed, sharing personal Info and usually mundane experiences with people who do little more than ridicule him for every post he makes as his only real means of socializing with others.
It's a pity you weren't killed in battle. At least them people would remember you as a soldier who died for his country,.... not a crazy old reclusive, people hating fuck who's own children abandoned him and who is 3 insane forum posts away from becoming the unibomber or an aged Timothy McVeigh |
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Wish you a full recovery soon man.
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if any of you guys with heart or arterial problems are still eating meat you're insane - watch this whole movie
(this is just trailer) http://uanews.org/sites/default/file...r%20knives.jpg |
When I had my Heart Attacks yes With a S I had the stints put in my leg then my arm then back to my leg when all said and done I have 5 stints, 1 artery was at 98% blocked the lowest was in the 70's but my MAIN one, is 80% so next heart attack guess I will be getting the bypass :(
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Here's to a speedy recovery!
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