Hey Cathy....I wish there was something I could do to at least stop you from smoking. Usually they want you to stop smoking 3 weeks prior to surgery...I know it's hard to give up the one thing that...
HI Teri - I just told Dave that you were thinking of him...he went...."Oh!! well....thank her" Like I said, he's a man of few words but he understands!...
Good luck you guys...I am still here reading this...funny our thread was locked down...my landlord is doing very well still...just got a hole in one in his golf game today...never had that before his...
Hi Cathy My landlord, Dave, had Scarlet fever when he was around 18 years old...that might have been the cause...Also, there is talk that one of his lead wires from his pacemaker pierced the heart...
Just to let you know what it's like here in Victoria, Bc....the wait for surgery is completely crazy...If you need a knee replacement, you are looking at at least 2 years...hearts ...not so long. But...
Cathy - go for it!! Get it done before it gets too bad....my landlord made it through just fine....and he feels so much better....do not put it off. It will just be harder for the surgeon to get all...
My landlords surgeon said that he did about 3 of these surgeries a year...at first he said Dave needed to have 2 valves repaired plus the removal of the pericardiem.. the team of surgeons had a...
Hi I am back...I'm the one who had the landlord who had this surgery. He had about a half inch of calcium build up around his heart. He turns 80 this year. He had the surgery last October. The...
My landlord did...I can't see how they could perform the operation without being on the heart-lung machine...? Michelle...
OK Henk...tell us all about it! Michelle...
Hi Nan - Glad to hear that you had your surgery...As you know, my landlord had his in October...he's still recuperating but much much better. You have to give your sternum 12 weeks to heal...and I...
Hey Eric! Glad you are doing great! The lungs will take time...everyone seems to have a cough and shortness of breath...Don't worry. If they gave you that breathing thing to blow into, use it....it...
An aura can happen before a migraine starts...some people get them some don't..I get the aura before the headache...first I loose my vision in one eye...just part of the vision goes...like a zigzag...
Hi - I get migraines only a few times a year...I have had them since I was 12 so I'm thinking mine are hormonal....I use Zomig...seems to work OK but I'm still having to lie down for most of the...
ericleer My landlord's surgery took around 6 hours but his pericardiem was severely calcified and they also fixed a hernia....Someone else had the procedure done in around 4 hours. I guess it depends...