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Re: LOL,,,,,,, UCLA Prof: "We Need To Seriously Question Ideal Of Private Home Ownership" 

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I am pretty good soldering and welding so I think I could fix your sternum! lol!!!


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Re: LOL,,,,,,, UCLA Prof: "We Need To Seriously Question Ideal Of Private Home Ownership"
By: Decomposed in POPE 5
Mon, 13 Jan 20 11:09 PM 		Msg. 48955 of 62138

Re: "I have a cardiology appointment in about two hours, so maybe I'll learn more about how I'm doing."I'm back. Doc says I'll live.

The general consensus - both at the hospital following surgery, at home by visiting nurses and physical therapists, and today at the cardiologist's office - is that I'm doing exceptionally well.

A nurse came in to see me before the doctor came in. She asked the usual questions about my blood pressure, medications, etc., then asked if anything significant had changed since my last visit. I said, "Yeah, I guess. I had open heart surgery three weeks ago." Her eyes popped.

Before the doctor came in, I heard her in the hall. "I didn't know. He looks so GOOD!" she was saying. LOL... The doc came in and saw me laughing. He said most patients look like the walking dead this soon after being opened up.

So, yeah. I'm doing well.

I brought a list of questions and concerns with me. He answered all of them, saying that what I'm experiencing is A) Normal, B) Minor, C) Temporary. I did report an odd spasm that started this week and he took closer note of it. He wants me to keep an eye on it - which, of course, I would anyway. It's sort of a shudder that I experience every ten minutes or so throughout the day when I inhale deeply or yawn. He thinks it might be due to an exposed nerve tied to chest movement. There's no pain associated with it, and he thinks it will likely go away of its own accord as I recover.

He checked out my ribcage and said the two sides are not moving independently when he presses on them. In other words, three weeks after surgery and the two sides are beginning to knit. I have an appointment with the surgeon in about ten days. He'll do some sort of a moving X-ray on me where he'll be able to tell if they are knitting PROPERLY. If they aren't, I could be screwed. "Loose sternum," I think, is what he called it. It's apparently a very difficult thing to fix. But so far it doesn't sound like I have it.

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