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Post by canefan on Feb 25, 2023 18:26:19 GMT -5
Still praying for both of you! God is good!🙏🙏 I appreciate it. I can't believe how well I feel. All my artificial joints are starting to feel normal now, I can take a few steps without canes and I had no reaction at all to the heart procedure. Hoping to have the weather warm up so I can get in the pool and speed up my last hip rehab so I can start going on long walks around the neighborhood. Then I want to try to drop 20 to 30 pounds before my 70th birthday in July. |
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Post by kaz on Feb 26, 2023 19:10:35 GMT -5
Well, after a night in the hospital, I am back home with orders to stand down for about a week. Not so much for my new left atrial appendage filter but instead because I have punctures in both groins over my femoral arteries. Don't want me bending or lifting so as to prevent increased pressure popping that insertion site open again. The procedure went very well and I feel fine. I fully expect them to give me a pacemaker within months or even a few years but for now, I remain in AFib but am also protected from an ischemic stroke that typically gets AFib patients. Knowing my luck now I'll probably have a hemorrhagic stroke instead (no protection from that). The good news is in 45 days I should be able to stop taking blood thinners. I will be taking baby aspirin daily for the rest of my life but that doesn't have the bleeding implications of prescription blood thinners. And Kaz my brother, I am praying for you to have as great an outcome as I have. Thanks, Cane - glad to hear things went well for you, and pray they continue to do so. I'll go in in 4 weeks to have the kidney stents removed, and then they'll do a pyelogram to check the ureters, and install new stents if needed. Also some time in the next month they will build a fistula for dialysis access. 6 weeks of healing time, and they will then remove the port. The faint hope was my kidneys would recover and dialysis would be temporary, but that's out the window now. But hey, could be worse! |
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Post by kaz on Feb 26, 2023 19:12:04 GMT -5
Still praying for both of you! God is good!🙏🙏 Yes, He is! Thanks, CB - appreciate it. |
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Post by oujour76 on Feb 26, 2023 20:04:12 GMT -5
Well, after a night in the hospital, I am back home with orders to stand down for about a week. Not so much for my new left atrial appendage filter but instead because I have punctures in both groins over my femoral arteries. Don't want me bending or lifting so as to prevent increased pressure popping that insertion site open again. The procedure went very well and I feel fine. I fully expect them to give me a pacemaker within months or even a few years but for now, I remain in AFib but am also protected from an ischemic stroke that typically gets AFib patients. Knowing my luck now I'll probably have a hemorrhagic stroke instead (no protection from that). The good news is in 45 days I should be able to stop taking blood thinners. I will be taking baby aspirin daily for the rest of my life but that doesn't have the bleeding implications of prescription blood thinners. And Kaz my brother, I am praying for you to have as great an outcome as I have. Thanks, Cane - glad to hear things went well for you, and pray they continue to do so. I'll go in in 4 weeks to have the kidney stents removed, and then they'll do a pyelogram to check the ureters, and install new stents if needed. Also some time in the next month they will build a fistula for dialysis access. 6 weeks of healing time, and they will then remove the port. The faint hope was my kidneys would recover and dialysis would be temporary, but that's out the window now. But hey, could be worse! Well, shit…hoping you would avoid dialysis. But, as you say, could be worse! |
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Post by kaz on Feb 26, 2023 21:44:34 GMT -5
Thanks, Cane - glad to hear things went well for you, and pray they continue to do so. I'll go in in 4 weeks to have the kidney stents removed, and then they'll do a pyelogram to check the ureters, and install new stents if needed. Also some time in the next month they will build a fistula for dialysis access. 6 weeks of healing time, and they will then remove the port. The faint hope was my kidneys would recover and dialysis would be temporary, but that's out the window now. But hey, could be worse! Well, shit…hoping you would avoid dialysis. But, as you say, could be worse! That's been my "mantra" the last 5 years or so, but I've been using it A LOT lately. |
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Post by AlaCowboy on Feb 27, 2023 11:05:30 GMT -5
Well, shit…hoping you would avoid dialysis. But, as you say, could be worse! That's been my "mantra" the last 5 years or so, but I've been using it A LOT lately. |
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Post by Buckeye Dale on Mar 1, 2023 16:08:47 GMT -5
DANG...I wish y'all the best...I'm definitely gonna quit complaining about my little aches and pains. We knew it was coming, but I don't think we expected all of this.
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Post by cbisbig on Mar 1, 2023 17:45:33 GMT -5
DANG...I wish y'all the best...I'm definitely gonna quit complaining about my little aches and pains. We knew it was coming, but I don't think we expected all of this. Staying active is a big help I went to a customers house the other day, and this elderly gentleman comes walking out of the house and we go around back and he’s real talkative and he and I go up underneath the house into the crawlspace and he squats down and kind of duck walks into a 4 ft crawl, I of course had to get down on my hands and knees, because 20 years of crawling under houses has made it where I can’t squat down without putting a knee on the ground. This guy scooted around under there like it was nothing and we came out and started talking and I asked him how old he was and he said it was 86 and I never would’ve guessed it by looking at him. He look like he was about 76 but he said that he was really active but I could tell by the way he kept up his yard and his property and it was very interesting man. |
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Post by mscott59 on Mar 18, 2023 22:31:27 GMT -5
Wow you guys, I had no idea. I've lifted up prayer for both of you and will continue to do so. Cowboy too. ditto to all. |
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Post by canefan on Apr 7, 2023 20:11:21 GMT -5
Quick update. I did have my Watchman placed about 7 weeks ago and yesterday I had the follow-up Transesophageal Echocardiogram. Basically, you go to sleep and they fish a camera down your throat to the level of the heart and take ultrasound pictures close up. Everything looks great. Did have a 1 mm leak around the left atrial appendage closure but that is considered insignificant. So, got a new script to take Plavix until August and am coming completely off Eliquis as of today. Once my run on Plavix finishes in August I'll be down to just 81 mg Aspirin a day. No more blood thinners or platelet agents.
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Post by oujour76 on Apr 7, 2023 20:20:23 GMT -5
Quick update. I did have my Watchman placed about 7 weeks ago and yesterday I had the follow-up Transesophageal Echocardiogram. Basically, you go to sleep and they fish a camera down your throat to the level of the heart and take ultrasound pictures close up. Everything looks great. Did have a 1 mm leak around the left atrial appendage closure but that is considered insignificant. So, got a new script to take Plavix until August and am coming completely off Eliquis as of today. Once my run on Plavix finishes in August I'll be down to just 81 mg Aspirin a day. No more blood thinners or platelet agents. Very nice. Great news! |
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Post by Panama pfRedd on Apr 7, 2023 21:58:43 GMT -5
Quick update. I did have my Watchman placed about 7 weeks ago and yesterday I had the follow-up Transesophageal Echocardiogram. Basically, you go to sleep and they fish a camera down your throat to the level of the heart and take ultrasound pictures close up. Everything looks great. Did have a 1 mm leak around the left atrial appendage closure but that is considered insignificant. So, got a new script to take Plavix until August and am coming completely off Eliquis as of today. Once my run on Plavix finishes in August I'll be down to just 81 mg Aspirin a day. No more blood thinners or platelet agents. That's wonderful news! |
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Post by Walter on Apr 8, 2023 10:22:37 GMT -5
Quick update. I did have my Watchman placed about 7 weeks ago and yesterday I had the follow-up Transesophageal Echocardiogram. Basically, you go to sleep and they fish a camera down your throat to the level of the heart and take ultrasound pictures close up. Everything looks great. Did have a 1 mm leak around the left atrial appendage closure but that is considered insignificant. So, got a new script to take Plavix until August and am coming completely off Eliquis as of today. Once my run on Plavix finishes in August I'll be down to just 81 mg Aspirin a day. No more blood thinners or platelet agents. Great news. Ya gotta give it up for science. Imagine the brainstorming meeting of heart specialists: "Hey, I got an idea! How 'bout we have the patient swallow a special camera and we could take pics of the heart on the way down!?" "BRILLIANT! LET'S DO IT!". |
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Post by oujour76 on Apr 8, 2023 10:33:58 GMT -5
Quick update. I did have my Watchman placed about 7 weeks ago and yesterday I had the follow-up Transesophageal Echocardiogram. Basically, you go to sleep and they fish a camera down your throat to the level of the heart and take ultrasound pictures close up. Everything looks great. Did have a 1 mm leak around the left atrial appendage closure but that is considered insignificant. So, got a new script to take Plavix until August and am coming completely off Eliquis as of today. Once my run on Plavix finishes in August I'll be down to just 81 mg Aspirin a day. No more blood thinners or platelet agents. Great news. Ya gotta give it up for science. Imagine the brainstorming meeting of heart specialists: "Hey, I got an idea! How 'bout we have the patient swallow a special camera and we could take pics of the heart on the way down!?" "BRILLIANT! LET'S DO IT!". They could make a movie…call it Fantastic Voyage! 😎 |
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Post by canefan on Apr 8, 2023 20:41:41 GMT -5
Quick update. I did have my Watchman placed about 7 weeks ago and yesterday I had the follow-up Transesophageal Echocardiogram. Basically, you go to sleep and they fish a camera down your throat to the level of the heart and take ultrasound pictures close up. Everything looks great. Did have a 1 mm leak around the left atrial appendage closure but that is considered insignificant. So, got a new script to take Plavix until August and am coming completely off Eliquis as of today. Once my run on Plavix finishes in August I'll be down to just 81 mg Aspirin a day. No more blood thinners or platelet agents. Great news. Ya gotta give it up for science. Imagine the brainstorming meeting of heart specialists: "Hey, I got an idea! How 'bout we have the patient swallow a special camera and we could take pics of the heart on the way down!?" "BRILLIANT! LET'S DO IT!". Yep, and that is the easy one. To put the Watchman in they feed a tube into your groin, into the femoral vein, and snake it up to and into the heart. They enter the heart through the right atrium and punch a hole through the septum between it and the left atrium and then place this filter into the pocket that is the left atrial appendage beside the mitral valve. Then the pull-out, then wake you up like nothing ever happened. I never would have had the nerve or the steadiness of my hands to manipulate things inside a beating heart. We have come a long way in the last forty years. |
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