Well that was quite a ride, but look at it this way, you got a heart overhaul and should be good for another 100,000 miles or so. A lot of your story rings with my adventure 11 years ago, the pneumonia and intubation tubes were just some highlights of my adventure. I especially enjoyed being stuck in the ER for a week, you know food service doesn't even know where that is? Now you just have to worry about surviving our mild summers what with the dry heat and all. Congratulations on your recovery. Still a way to go but you should do well.
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R. Warren
Tucson, AZ
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Original Message:
Sent: 05-14-2018 16:56
From: William Lansche
Subject: CABGx2
Cardiac bypass 3/21/18. Aspiration pneumonia and reintubated 3/24. Heavy sedation (propofol, fentanyl, and morphine) while on a ventilator for 4 days. Extubated then severe confusion for 2-3 days. Flunked swallow function test and tube feeding, but pulled 4 <g class="gr_ gr_9 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling" id="9" data-gr-id="9">duotubes</g> during the confusion. FINALLY off everything and in a skilled nursing center for occupational therapy, physical therapy, and speech therapy. Making wonderful progress<g class="gr_ gr_18 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear Punctuation multiReplace" id="18" data-gr-id="18">..</g>
The nurses had me up and walking the same day in which I do not remember, I also was feed that night. The next day I had pneumonia and my wife said I died for a for minutes. Was in ICU then transferred to a step-down unit, was hospitalized for 3 weeks the to a Life Care Center (formerly nursing home) for a week.
Now 7 weeks post surgery and doing quite well, getting back to the usual routine, driving, shopping and transporting our down syndrome daughter to Civitan Community Center. My wife is retiring at the end of this week and I am looking forward to doing some volunteering at the Life Care Center in North Scottsdale. Hopefully, it will lead to a paid position. My wife has been in the medical field for over 45 years and she made sure I got the best medical care possible.
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William Lansche
Retired
Phoenix AZ
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