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My wife is out of surgery after 11 hours. They are bandaging her now which will take an hour and then move her to ICU. They will keep her sedated until tomorrow.
The surgeon said all went as expected and there were no surprises.
It has been a long day that began at 3 am to be here at 5:30.
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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Not to worry Dave . Along with the skill of the surgeons , I sent a few personal messages to the Man upstairs . I will continue until you say all is well .
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No surprises is always good news from a doctor......Ben
The future is forged on the anvil of history...The interpreter of history wields the hammer... - Unknown author...
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Yeah, no surprises is good news. Nice to hear that.
Hunter
I don't care if it hurts. I want to have control. I want a perfect body. I want a perfect soul. - Creep by Radiohead
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i agree, no surprises is good. i'll have you both in my thoughts.
it's time to change the air in my head
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Thanks all
I never saw my wife---they finished the bandaging about 7:30----and off she went to ICU, never passed through the recovery room and didn't get the $200 for passing GO! I didn't exist any longer and no one told me where she went!
Tomorrow they "wake her up" and I'll try to find her!
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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Praying everything turn out great.
Fred
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I did find her this morning. I talked to her ICU nurse. She is now stable and beginning to move a bit as they reduce the sedation drugs. They gave her a transfusion over night to help stabilize her blood pressure. They will not remove the breathing tube until she is fully awake.
I have to offer kudos to "live" people. My search to find her became bogged down in endless loops of "automated unintelligence", but once I broke out and found a HI (Human Intelligence) things moved along quickly--- I had called the wrong hospital in this "megatropolis" of hospitals surrounding U of Penn! But one live person set me on the right trail
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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That's good news, Dave, and HI is becoming a scarce commodity as AI continues its inexorable march against us......Ben
The future is forged on the anvil of history...The interpreter of history wields the hammer... - Unknown author...
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All good news, Dave! Good to hear!
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible - Arthur C. Clarke
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it's time to change the air in my head
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Sounds like good news.. All the best to Ms.G..
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Thanks everyone---but we have hit a bit of a speed bump. They see a foreign object in her right pulmonary artery----they think it might have come from the anesthesiologists but are not sure. They are putting together a team to go in tomorrow morning and hopefully remove it. The vascular surgeon I just talked to seems confident he can get it---I pray he can.
They will probably go in a vein in her groin and travel around to end up in the correct place.
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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I had that procedure with installing a stent several years back...I stayed awake while I watched it on TV...It's very common, and not worrisome at all...Keep us informed...Originally Posted by Dave Grubb
...Ben
The future is forged on the anvil of history...The interpreter of history wields the hammer... - Unknown author...
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I continue to be amazed by our huge gains in medical practice/technology. And when people like Dave's Wife benefits - it becomes reality.
Hunter
I don't care if it hurts. I want to have control. I want a perfect body. I want a perfect soul. - Creep by Radiohead
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