23 mm is the size of the valve they implanted in my aortic valve on Aug. 22, 2005, thats nearly an inch.
My Aortic Valve replaced
October 15, 2005 at 3:37 pm (Homosassa Springs, aortic valve replacement, bypass, citrus county, david gregory, despair, hard times, medicine, open heart surgery, science)
PAIN IN CHEST
August 20, 2005 at 5:19 am (DAVE GREGORY, Homosassa Springs, anxious, aortic valve replacement, bypass, chest pains, citrus county, david gregory, despair, florida, future, heart problems, history, hospital, illness, open heart surgery, worried)
It’s Saturday morning. I’ve been up since 330 am. That’s the last time they took my BP. Had some pain in my chest last night. If I recall correctly, I’ve never have been able to take beta blockers without experiencing some type of heart discomfort. They insisted that I take one around noon yesterday, a form of low pressure, or something like that. I took it, but around 7 pm I began to feel the discomfort. I informed the nurse, which could have been a mistake, because she mentioned that if it continued I would have to be placed in the icu. That wouldn’t due because Corl would not have anyplace to stay then. I’m in a private room now and she has been able to stay with me during this hospital incarceration. Monday’s not that far off, but I’m feeling less and less confident of a favorable outcome.
Confidence Builder, NOT!
August 19, 2005 at 11:08 am (CONFIDENCE, DAVE GREGORY, blood pressure, bypass, citrus county, david gregory, despair, florida, hard times, open heart surgery, science, tension, worried)
Well, after several delays it would appear that Monday is the blast off day. I will be glad when it is over. Trying to keep gun-ho over such a long period of time is draining. They should be picking me up sometime between 6 and 6:30 AM.
The mistake my nurse caught today was with one of my pills that I take in the morning. It’s a blood pressure pill, the sheet said I should be taking a 75mg pill. I actually didn’t know the mg. She went out and checked, my pill should be a 25mg. It doesn’t exactly build your confidence. I guess that is why they call this a teaching hospital. A few of the other mistakes that I am aware of are: they had someone else papers in my file, the doctor asked me why I was on cumidine (sp), I told him I believed I wasn’t, that is when he discover someone Else’s papers in my file; they picked me up and took me downstairs for some tests which had never been ordered, fortunately I didn’t take them. I just sat in the hallway down there for about a half hour when a guy (transporter) came and picked me up to take me back upstairs. I told him I hadn’t had anything done to me yet, so he swung me around and went back to check. There weren’t any orders for me to have any tests!
Well, the saga continues
blast off postponed
August 18, 2005 at 4:06 am (DAVE GREGORY, Homosassa Springs, anxious, aortic valve replacement, bypass, citrus county, david gregory, despair, florida, future, hard times, heart problems, illness, medicine, not feeling good, open heart surgery, postponement, tension)
They wheeled me down to the operating room, was all prepared, they shaved my chest, gave me injection to relax me and I was awaiting the big cut. However, they woke me and said that they had decided to postpone the operation because of the blood that was present in my urine sample this morning. So off back to my room to await more exposure to radiation, in more tests, that I fear may generate cancer, because of the many, I mean thousands of x-rays that I have experienced in my lifetime. None of the doctor’s seem to appreciate the circumstances that I have described to them in regards to this manner and always insist on further exposure to radiation, either through x-rays, and or, cat scans (one of the most potent forms of radiation exposure). I fear that they may have put me over the limit, initially, from all the tests before concluding I needed bypass and aortic valve replacement. Possibly that is why blood appeared in my urine.
They now tell me, that in all likelihood, I won’t be having the operation until Monday. That is presuming the tests for why I had blood in my urine turn out ok. And I fear that they will not. I am contemplating signing out of the hospital and going home.
