most painful ever,woke up in sweating hell. no muscle damage 4 bypassed

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1999 w140, quit voting to old, and to old to fight, a god damned veteran

Welcome back. Good youre on the mend.

Wow! Live streaming it. Congrats on going in and making it out alive!

The discomfort will pass...

Some doctors do not provide enough pain relief. One story I heard a few times is a fear of creating an addiction. That to me is BS.

The practice here now is to inform the staff if you are in pain. They no longer just let doctors leave people in pain. It is felt and proven they claim that recovery is quicker when pain is relieved. So it saves money as well. It certainly is easier on you too. . They actually have a sign in each room. Very emphatically making a point of it.

The last time when they worked on me for most of the day. I never felt a twinge of anything after. Actually it was only after the third day that I found out they where killing any pain with a tube feeding into my spine. After five days when I left the hospital it was as if I had nothing done. They only kept me the fifth day because my potassium level was down. Apparently this can result with a long operation.

Now if they can only figure out someday how to make hospital food better. I am not a fussy eater. Yet they exceed my tolerance from time to time. They must have a cookbook on how to serve food cold and sometimes leaving it up to you to figure out what it is. You have a choice of what you want for each meal so it is best to work it.

With no pain I got out of the bed and went to the washroom with no discomfort perhaps three hours after I woke up. The first question I asked when the surgeon visited me after. Why do I have an incision under my armpit? He told me that is how I hooked up your kidneys.

A bonus was our member got in at least in time to prevent a real heart attack with the resulting muscle damage. That was the best news. Most indications he posted it was getting really close to the onset of a major event.

WELCOME HOME NATE ! .

Remember to follow the Doctor's orders to a 'T' .

Gently does it .

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-Nate
1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better

thank' to all, and your beliefs

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1999 w140, quit voting to old, and to old to fight, a god damned veteran

You only get one chance to heal properly.
Survived 5 bypasses 9/3/91. About 2 months later, I had a silent heart attack. Scarring on right side disrupted my current and I went into Ventricular taccyhachardia a runaway heart rhythm. Fortunately my cardiologist sent me to an arrhythmia specialist (via a helicopter ride). it was touch and go the first day, but I pulled through. 11 years on amiodarone and had an pacemaker defibrilator implanted in 2002.

Things went fine and the defibrillator never woke up and kicked me until two weeks after hip surgery just before Christmas this past December. The pain of a defibilator is like a mule kicking you in the chest to break the rapid beat. Mine fired about 6-8 times form the time it began until the ambulance came and about 6 more times in the ambulance until the amiodarone and lydocane stopped it. I had another heart attack after the hip replacement. The power used to kick me took about 2 years off the battery life.

I was told by a doctor during pre-admission testing the average life of grafts is somewhere between 20- 25 years. 3 of mine closed after about 10 years. The other two are still working ok. The LAD (aka the widow maker) is 25% closed, but that's not a particular risk.

I hope no one here has to ever call 911 for their own health problems. I'll say this, the mule kicker almost certainly saved my life.

Wish you the best, Old Sinner.

Thank you for the wake up call story .

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-Nate
1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better

sick last two days,rotten stomach,the craps,blues,feeling faint. Turns out bp med lopressor,causing all of it. But for the first time in 3 years normal bp.was around 179/119

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1999 w140, quit voting to old, and to old to fight, a god damned veteran

Sorry your sick. Sounds like your heart is getting its strength back.

Keep up the good work Nate!

Congratulations on surviving the surgery!

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[SIGPIC] Diesel loving autocrossing grandpa Architect. 08 Dodge 3/4 ton with Cummins & six speed; I have had about 35 benzes. I have a 39 Studebaker Coupe Express pickup in which I have had installed a 617 turbo and a five speed manual.[SIGPIC]

..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

I certainly do not wish to upset you, but those numbers seem high, are they new lows for you?

I think that he meant those were his former numbers...

new are 128/78. weight was 202, now 183.Dropped most sugar,and bread.

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1999 w140, quit voting to old, and to old to fight, a god damned veteran