OT: Surgery Update and misc Stuff


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> > Were I the rescue crew, I'd bypass you and come back a week later with
> > the grave registration detail. Why? There really are more worthy
> > people out there sitting on their roof tops than you.
> >
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> Great to see you back, David.
>
> I hope your surgery went well.
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> Rad


Thanks Rad. Hope this makes it as a new OT thread vice the emergency
decision making thread. Surgery was on 9 August, was 8.5 hours long and
I came out weighing 30 pounds heavier due to all the fluid they had to
pump in equalizing the heart -- lung gismo with my system. Nine days
in hospital. Released home on the 18th of August, barely able to walk.
Thirty days after the surgery, much better now. Am hiking a bit and
just came inside from cutting some grass. Actually I can't remember
when I have felt better although I need to work on endurance issues and
stamina. All that extra weight came off in five days in the hospital.
It was not a pretty sight to see. They had to install a *Main IV Tap*
under the collarbone, into the jugular vein I think it was, as I so
swollen with edema they were unable to start a regular IV once the old
one blew.

Important thing is that all four parts of the surgery were entirely
successful and the surgeon gifted me with an additional 20 - 30 years
of life. The EKG on 1 September was textbook perfect! No *routine post
op complications* such as a need for pacemaker, ICD, no Diabetes etc.
Heart shadow was half of what it was upon my release from the hospital
on 18/8 and is getting smaller as the heart muscle strengthens. Oh. I
now have a porcine Aortic Valve. (Call me an MCP now if you will), a
repaired Mitral Valve, no chronic Atrial Fibrillation or Atrial Flutter
thanks to the Cox-Maze III *procedure*, and a repaired stomach hernia
from an unrelated, non bypass open heart procedure in 6/2001.

I AM A NEW MOUSE !!!!! And I do believe I now fully deserve that Sage
SLT 5wt with matching Sage reel or perhaps that Beretta 682 unsingle
for some Grouse shooting in the UP next month with the dogs. This is
the perfect 12 gauge for me -- shooting trap with the single 32 inch
barrel, Sporting Clays and field with the O/U w/ the adjustable comb
and length of pull, ported with choke tubes on both barrels. Only
downside is that it's a tad on the heavy side but is one gun that can
really do it all and do it very well.

At present, I am smoking about one bowl a week. My taste is totally
off due to the anesthesia. Ditto with most food. More than a bite or
two and I get nauseous and spit it out. I've thrown away a lot of food
lately. And my tobacco cellar now tells me I have 107 years worth of
tobacco cellared! I filled up my Tinsky Bulldog with SG Balkan Flake
two days ago, and I'm still smoking it! Go figure.

It is an understatement to say that it is good to be back amoung the
living with a normal future ahead of me. I am a most fortunate person.

David Napierkowski

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