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Re: slightly disagree Posted by pme [Email]  (#1496)  [Profile/Gallery]
(more from pme) on Fri, 20 May 2016 04:43:47
In Reply to: slightly disagree, Sam8, Thu, 19 May 2016 21:21:52 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
Beginning of last August I failed a cardiac stress test, and spent a day in NY Presbyterian (Columbia/Cornell flagship teaching hospital, but also their premiere cardiac care facility).
Exploratory angiogram through my right groin, then stent placement (90% blockage of the left anterior descending coronary artery - a/k/a the widow maker).
Other than a nurse who handled prep and draping, and a surgical assistant who 'sealed me up' the only person who worked on me and handled the catheters was the inteventional cardiologist.
If any place in NY could be called an assembly line, this hospital would be it,. Other than it being a busy place, I never felt like I was just being shuttled through.
Anders - as far as activity goes (related to the wound site in the groin). I didn't drive for a couple of days, I slept a lot the first day after (largely I think due to stress around not sleeping much before they did the procedure), the second day I worked a half day and then got on with it.
No strenuous activity for about a week. Most inconvenient thing was the type of seal they put on the artery in the groin -- i forget what they called it, but it resulted in a ball of collagen under the skin in the crease of the groin. It dissolved in about 3, 3-1/2 weeks, but in the first couple of weeks sat right under the seatbelt. That was annoying when I drove.
I know my plumbing work is different than yours, but I cannot get over the difference it made. I did not realize how lousy I felt leading up to it for years. I'm glad I listened when the symptoms changed and it no longer felt like I was just getting older and more out of shape.
Good luck with it all!
~pme
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