OT: aortic valve replacement

On 19 feb, 19:10, Joerg <inva...@invalid.invalid> wrote:
Bill Slomanwrote:
On Feb 18, 8:42 pm, Joerg <inva...@invalid.invalid> wrote:
Bill Slomanwrote:
On 17 feb, 17:38, Phil Hobbs <pcdhSpamMeSensel...@electrooptical.net
wrote:
On 2/17/2010 10:27 AM,Bill Slomanwrote:
On 8 feb, 17:30, Spehro Pefhany<speffS...@interlogDOTyou.knowwhat
wrote:
On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 03:52:31 -0800 (PST),Bill Sloman
bill.slo...@ieee.org> wrote:
I should have a new one tomorrow. I'll be incommunicado for a at least
a week or so, if everything goes according to plan, as it does better
95% of the time.
Good luck with it Bill. Artificial or porcine valve replacement?
Porcine. At 67 I´m old enough that they figure that there is an
adequate chance that
I´ll drop dead before this one wears out.
The new valve is in place and working fine, but the rest of the
heart is taking its time to adapting to not having to pump through a
100mm Hg pressure drop across the old aortic valve. My pulse rate
climbed about 180bpm over the first few days, which has been
controlled with some 300millligram per day of beta-blocker. but the
pulse rate is irregular, and I´m not up to much.
The operating hospital tried electro-cardio-version on Saturday, when
the irregularity first set in, and that worked fine for a couple of
hours. The hospital where I´ve been looked after since Sunday won´t
try again until my anti-coagulant drugs are consistently giving
clotting time three time the number they first measured, which usually
takes about a weeek to set up, so I´m stuck in hospital for a few days
yet.
Bill Sloman, Canisius Wilhelmina Ziekenhuis Nijmegen
Still praying for you.
The Cochrane collaboration recommends other interventions.
They may not know it all ...
But they are the people who are promoting a rational scheme for
working out, what does - and doesn't - work.
Sure, and that's great. However, man not only needs to tend to his body
but also to his soul. One doesn't work well without the other being kept
healthy as well.

Get well soon.
Working on it.
And keep that Berenburger bottle under the bed so the nurses can't see
it
I wouldn't take decent beer anywhere near a hospital, admirable source
of B-vitamins though it is.
Hey, Berenburger ain't no beer :-)

When I was in an army hospital after a kablouie sort of incident me and
a submariner snuck out, across a large exercise yard after dark, and
into a pub to have a few cold ones. Boy did we get read the riot act
later ...

So I take it that not having the Ziekenhuis tagline means you are home?
Hooray!

Actually, it's only now about to happen. There's still some (non-
financial) paper-work to sort out, mainly involving when I come back
in for outpatient monitoring (and probably some fiddling with my dose
of beta-blocker, which is at the maximum at the moment).

Any time now they will show up with the paper work, and I'll be in a
position to negotiate the right moment for my wife to come and whisk
me away. Happily, her Mondays are pretty much free of scheduled
meetings.

It looks as if I'll end up having spent exactly two weeks in hospital
- not bad for open heart surgery.