I'll be inside the building with the blue windows,
The Heart Institute of Spokane.
If you get lost just check with the receptionist in
the lobby. And if you can sneak maybe a pizza and
some beers in, it would be appreciated.
Or, just leave a comment here if you want. :p
I should be back on the Blackberry and able
to respond to comments from about 3:00 p.m.
PST today until I leave the hospital, which
should be late Wednesday afternoon.
I will be very glad to have your company. After
all, it can't all be blood being drawn every 15
minutes, can it? Even as much as I enjoy that. :p
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Wow – you are on track for that ice hockey career!:D
I might be getting out of here if about noon this last echo looks good!w00t!
catman42 writes:I would like to wish you a speedy recovery Edward.God bless and protect you always.
Richardf, it's like rhose b lockbuster movies that you see advertised for montbs ans look forward to seeing and then you go to thre theater and it's over in 2 hours. :pYou kniw laying here since yesterday i decided to switch from hockey to men's downhill skiing. :DAnd please tell Little Lizard thanksd for her kind thought! :heart:Aoon, thanks muchB So good of you to stop here.
Hope your motor is up and running, Ed. Did they use a lot of spare parts?! :p :heart:Give my love to the nurses :love:
Originally posted by edwardpiercy:
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Isabel aka Wicked Lizard sends good wishes to you, Ed, via my Facebook page. She's given up on My Opera for the moment.
"it can't all be blood being drawn every 15minutes, can it? Even as much as I enjoy that. 😆 at least you can joke about it. :cool:i had no idea you were going in for something so serious as heart surgery. i can assume that you survived. right? it doesn't sound like fun to me. :smile:well, take it easy and heal fast. :up: :up:
God bless you, Ed. I hope you recovery quickly! Sorry you went through all this.
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Recovery soon.
Wha…? I haven`t been here for few hours and you are ready to go home? :eyes:
Originally posted by edwardpiercy:
Like when you are 11 years old and you hear about sex, and you start looking at grown-ups with a new curiosity, eager to learn, and then you meat a girl without getting any where, and another one, also with no luck, and you build up even more anticipation, start to feel angry with the world, because it's just not fair, and you meet a girl and she just laughs at you, and you meet a new one, and this one is interested, she actually likes you, and you take her home and eight years later she leaves you with both kids and the car and you're stuck with the mortgage and the dog and you still don't know what sex is…
Oh good…you're up and joking around. Give the head nurse a hard time like my ex did and you'll be out as fast as they can get you.
And BTW I will be making trips to your blogs as soon as possible to catch up with everything — very much looking forward to it, HOME AGAIN.
THANKS TO EVERYBODY FOR HELPING ME GET THROUGH THIS, AND FOR YOUR THOUGHTS, WISHES, PRAYERS, ECT.:heart:
Originally posted by edwardpiercy:
Yeah, Edward. Job well done!!!:)
I'm home. Those people at the hospital rushed through my release like wildfire, with everybody chipping in to get me out of there.:pSeriously, they did. Kinda make me wonder.No, can honestly say they were all just super, and I thank them so much. Nicolas, Marie, Scott, Studio, DarkoThanks so much. Yes Scott — I guess it was really a "minimumally invasive procedure." Though actually four hours on the table and Garabedian did an incredible job. :wizard:Originally posted by PainterWoman:
You know, now that I have improved a bit, I might just do that. :devil:
My thoughts and prayers are with you.Get well soon :yes: Been there.
Your home? Wow, that's great!!! Courtesies to Dr. Garabedian :up:
Wow. Just. Wow.What wonderful news. So glad you're home, and that your O2 sats are up so much. The world looks a bit different with all that oxygen in your brain, doesn't it? 😆 I can just imagine how much easier it is for you to breathe, Edward. So veryveryvery happy for you. You da' man!Love ya' bunches, my friend!:heart:
Wishing you a speedy recover Ed. 😉 :spock:
Many best wishes to you PIERCY and early recovering wish Maria from Slovakia
God bless you Edward. You will be fine soon right.
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You astound and inspire me with your positive outlook & sense of humor! 😆 Will be thinking of you as you heal. :happy:
@ Richard.Thanks, I sure hope so too. Oh, you know when the anathesiologist came into the prep room before the surgery, he reached down and grabbed all the wires of the CRT monitor and just ripped all the pads off my chest at once. "You just enjoy doing that, don't you?" I told him. And we all laughed. Good times! :p
Thanks Marie for the nice card(s), and also Mags and Larry and Leazz and Shipka.UPDATE:All of which is especially appreciated. Minimally invasive procedure or not, I feel like I've got barbed wire in my chest. My neck is in real pain for some reason, somehow my inner lip got cut during the procedure and is very irritating, and of course the sites of the IV needles hurt. I'm hoping all of that won't last too long. I have a follow-up with Garabedian on the 17th, so if I am still feeling bad he will probably know what to do.@ Star.Originally posted by Stardancer:
You know that's true — it turns out that Sasha is actually a chihuahua and not a dachshund! Go figure that one.:p:heart:@ Naomi.Thank you so much for your wishes, and if I have done anything to help or inspire anybody — Pay It Forward — I am glad to pass it on. 😀
Originally posted by Aqualion:
Exactly like that! 😀
Originally posted by edwardpiercy:
Ouch! I hope you heal up quickly and the pain goes away pronto. I'm amazed at what they did to you with as little slicing up as they could get away with (lip excepted!).
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Looking forward to coming to have a beer with you when Dare gets here. 🙂
It'll get better day by day, Edward. By the end of the weekend, you'll be ready to run marathons.:D:heart:
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@ Star.I talked with Dr. Garabedian's P.A. yesterday and she told me that though it varied a bit that most going through this procedure felt okay after about 4 or 5 days. So….that would be Sunday? :lol:@ San.Absolutely! Just be sure to come around the beginning of the month so I can treat! 😀 And I do hope he get's back with you soon. @ Marie.Very nice card. Thank you. :up:
Woohoo! Ice cream on Monday, then!:heart:
Originally posted by Stardancer:
No, Thai noodles! :p
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:lol:My mom just went over to the store and I am having her pick me up some Pepto Bismol. :p
:lol:Glad it was just some indigestion, and not something related to that recent procedure.Nachos are good! Hope you enjoyed the heck outta them!:heart:
@ Star.You know Star I decided to treat myself last night so I made my ballpark nachos. And since I like them so much I ate all of them. Which must have produced some sort of indigestion that made my chest go into horrible pain after about 30 minutes. I almost called 911, but it occurred to me that with my recent weird procdure they'd whisk me into the ER and put the damn IV back into me all run all sorts of tests and I would be laying there for like 5 hours before they finally would give me some bicarbonate of soda or some such and send me home. But of course the real concern is that maybe it wasn't indigestion. But I just couldn't go through all of that to find out. NOTE TO SELF: Don't eat like a little piglet!
Originally posted by edwardpiercy:
totally. good thinking. however, your choice of dinner was not. 😆 the fire from jalapenos and the relative indigestibility of cheese… woooaaa. you should be on chicken soup with a little lemon dripped in. :cool:we'll be watching your progress. i hope you are more comfortable each day. i liked the chihuahua joke. 😆
@ Scott.Thanks Scott. Yeah, the "chihuahua" :pToday will be totally different. A few tomatoes. Then some soup broth tonight. And a Perrier with lemon. I've learned my lesson!
Your nacho dinner reminded me of something my brother did. If you remember me telling you he had a burst aoritic aneurysm 20 yrs ago when he was 42, spent a month in ICU, then at 52 spent spent a month in Houston having another aneurysm repaired before it burst. Anyway, once he'd come home after his horrific emergency when he was 42, he was starving for the food he liked. He'd lost 60 lbs the month he was in the hospital. He ate 12 Taco Bell taco supremes….that's the ones with sour cream…..12! His girlfriend (now his wife) took him to ER because he was in such pain and she was scared. I really don't remember anything else. I'll have to ask him if he remembers that.
I used to cure hangovers the same way. Didn't work either.
@ Pam.Great (and unfortunately now too familiar) story! @ Martin.Do they have Taco Bell in Odense? Just curious, as they seem to have a lot of American stuff in Europe these days — for good or for ill.
No Taco Bell. And no KFC either. We do have the Pizza Hut, and of course MacDonald's and Burger King. But the junk foot trend has not really got its grab on Scandinavians. I guess we know too much about what is good for you and what is not good for you, if you know what I mean. We learn that stuff in school. 😉 However, it was munching junk food in general as treatment for hangovers I was referring to, not specific places.
Originally posted by Aqualion:
Boring class! Unless of course it's a hands-on cooking class, which would be pretty cool actually. In the U.S. way back they used to have classes called "Home Economics" where they covered stuff like that. My mom took a couple. But they stopped those types of classes when they suddenly realized that it was like brainwashing women to work in the home (the result of feminism). Nevertheless I like the idea of a cooking class for high school students if they could have the resources.
Originally posted by Aqualion:
that's interesting. because in the u.s., nutrition is not even required study for doctors. no wonder we are all increasing our girths exponentially. :yikes: i for one, am using my juicer and avoid fast food like the plague. but i have to get back on my bike and go for a five day hike to get rid of the surplus insulation from a way too sedentary winter.
Actually I think the healthy living trend is reaching a level of hysteria in Europe these years. One of my favorite aversions in that department is that revolting raw food concept. It's not the idea, but the way it's followers behave. Like religious fanatics. The slightest shred of criticism or scepsis and they call you ugly names. It's true. I mean, passion is okay to a certain level, but when it becomes nasty, I am so out of there, know what I mean?
Originally posted by Aqualion:
it's the same around here. it seems it is not enough to have one's own convictions, but everyone else must follow religiously. how about a little balance and less obsessions. :knight:
Originally posted by Aqualion:
Exactly. And this makes other kind of problems. I have seen kids avoiding breakfast and eating potato chips "low in fat" :doh:Me, I am eating bacon on a regular basis but being active and practicing I have no problem at all :happy: