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Re: Millions of Americans Are About to Lose Their Health Insurance in a Pandemic/ De 

By: Decomposed in POPE 5 | Recommend this post (3)
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Re: "How is the healing process coming along if you don't mind me asking? HAs thechest and the fractured bones healed to the point where they have stopped letting you know they are still there? Can you feel the surgical work and tauma to your hear itself? That had to hurt internally I would think being cut on and repaired with that replacement valve."Thanks for asking.

I think I'm right on schedule. The surgeon told me that it would be three months before I could start doing all the things I used to do. A visiting nurse told me at about the same time that it would be a YEAR before I felt completely normal. I think they're both right.

It still feels "tight" in my chest... like the left side is pulling on the right side and the top on the bottom. This is especially true if I move my arms across one another. You know that prank where a man hugs himself and looks from the back like he's making out with someone? Well, I can't do that! It would hurt too much. But my wife is here. I'll just do my making out with her.

I never felt much internal pain. I think I've heard that most of the human interior has no nerve endings. We've all felt stabbing pain inside though, so that obviously isn't an absolutism. I will say, though, that I felt very little from tissue and no pain from the heart. What hurt were the bones and both shoulders. But for weeks, it felt like there was a heavy weight - as in, a bowling ball - on my chest. That, I imagine, was from the heart.

I managed to go more than a month without sneezing - which was a big relief because the thought of sneezing at that time was terrifying. I kind of feared that a good one would blow me apart. On several occasions in that 45 days, I had close calls. Each time, just as I *almost* sneezed, the pain got so extreme that the sneeze abruptly aborted. Heh. I didn't know until then that a sneeze COULD abort when it was within a quarter second of happening! Now I know.... Pain can abort a sneeze. Yup. And I'm glad it can.

When I sneeze these days, I wrap my arms around myself as best I can and hold my torso together - because it still hurts quite a bit, mostly at the sternum, which I guess is the main place that's still recovering.

For some time, I told folks that I'd BETTER not get coronavirus or anything else in my chest because I couldn't cough. Doing so hurt too much. That's improved a lot over the last few weeks. I can now manage light to moderate coughs... the kind that amounts to a bit more than clearing my throat. I still couldn't do a heavy, hacking cough like I'd need to if I had a bad chest cold - so no coronavirus for me just yet, please.

From January 9th (I think) until my trip to Virginia two weeks ago, I had a breathing spasm that my surgeon attributed to an irritated phrenic nerve. It's not unheard of for chest surgery patients to have phrenic nerve damage that paralyzes the diaphragm. My problem wasn't like that... it was more like a series of five or six mild hiccups crammed into the space of about two seconds. Two weeks ago, about as suddenly as that problem began, it stopped. So, obviously, I'm still improving.

I quit the tylenol a while ago and the ibuprofen recently, but I'm starting to have some of the sleep problems I used to have (achiness and digestive issues) and may resume the ibuprofen again. Ibuprofen might not be the perfect drug, but it helps me a LOT.

Other than that, my daily meds include warfarin (blood thinner), metaprolol (heartbeat regulation due to the A-fib I experienced that once), atorvastatin (for cholesterol), baby aspirin (blood thinner), and tamsulosin (for an enlarged prostate). I take vitamin D3 too. So far, there haven't been any negatives from this cocktail and that's probably for the best since most of them are probably going in my daily regimen from now on.









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Re: Millions of Americans Are About to Lose Their Health Insurance in a Pandemic/ De
By: micro in POPE 5
Mon, 30 Mar 20 5:59 PM 		Msg. 57311 of 62138

That is actually quite interesting De.

I am now wondering i we could start referring to you as our very own Bionic Man?

How is the healing process coming along if you don't mind me asking? HAs thechest and the fractured bones healed to the point where they have stopped letting you know they are still there?

Can you feel the surgical work and tauma to your hear itself? That had to hurt internally I would think being cut on and repaired with that replacement valve.

Of all the people I know I could understand why you out of all of them, would have the most critical need NOT to be a corona virus patient... Prolly OLD GUYS like Ribs and DG would be next... lol!!!!

I HATE the lack of movement for another month... This is about all I am going to put up with. After that its just government infringement at its very best under the guise giving up your rights is for your own good BS...

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