Best of luck, sir. Keep good thoughts in mind and laughter in your heart, and you'll do better than otherwise.
Kurt On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 09:05, Daniel Rodriguez <[email protected]> wrote: > Update on my current conditon. > > As some of you know I had a 5-1/2 heart bypass done at the end of July of > this year. I have been at home, and out of work, recuperating. Everything > has been going great. I have been doing cardio-rehab for the past three > weeks and had been looking forward to be release to go back to work. > > But something happenend this past Monday. > > I went to the cardiologist and he cleared me to go back to work on Monday > morning. That afternoon, I started to have some heart palpitations. I told > my wife about this. We both just concluded that I was just excited because I > was going back to work. > > On Tuesday evening, I was going to make an apple pie, sugar free of course, > and was proceeding to slice some granny smith apples. In the process I cut > my middle finger on a mandolin slicer. It was pretty severe. So much so that > I went to the emergency room to get it looked at. Well, when I cut my finger > the palpitations came back, and more severe than on Monday afternoon. > > When I got to the emergency room I told them that I had had heart bypass and > that I was currently having heart palpitations. They hooked me up to a heart > monitor and they did not look pleased. It was showing that my heart was > skipping a beat. They gave me three nitro tablets and that seemed to help. > About an hour later the palpitations started again. This time they gave me > nitro paste. They put this paste on a strip of tape and put it on my chest. > Again, it helped but for only an hour and a half. (They did sew up my finger > during this, got five stitches.) They finally gave me a nitro drip and that > helped. They told me that they would have to transfer me to Norton in > Louisville where I was admitted initially. > > So, I got to ride in an abulance. Problem was I was strapped to a gurney > facing backwards and no siren. :( This was around 12:30am Wednesday morning. > > We got to the hospital and they got me up to TCU. Now, when I was at > Harrison County Hospital they put two IV's in me, one in each arm. One of > the IV's was the nitro drip, When I got to Norton hospital the connectioms > on the IV's were different and they couldn't put in any other IV's It tooke > them two hours to decide what to do. During this tiem I was still having > heart palpitations and was coughing, even though there was notihng in my > lungs, and I was feeling awful. Once they got the nitro drip reconnected > they gave me about 2ml of morphine and I went to sleep. > > When I woke up, I got to eat breakfast, but this was tgoing to be the last > meal for next 24 hours. After that mean I was NBO and couldn't even have ice > chips. My cardiologist came in and said that he was going to do an > examination in the cath lab that evening. If there were any serious issues > he would let me know. I got to the cath lab around 4pm and was wheeled into > the operating room around 6pm. I was awake during the whole process. I ened > up geting three stints put into my heart. The sad part of it was that all > three went into three of the grafts that were put into my heart during > bypass. I have pictures of the before and after of the stint operation and > there is noticable improvement of the vessels in my heart. > > I was released from the hospital on Friday afternoon and now have more meds > to take than before. I will be out of work for another month, but I will > still get to go to cardio. I just have to start from the beginning. > > So, this is an update on my stiuation. I do appreciate your concerns and > prayers. > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
