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tfeverfred
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Wishing you the best and a speedy recovery.
Good luck Track, prayers that all goes well. Should be no problem though. 
meangreen
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Ain't no thang... Ya just go nighty-night for a few hours and it's all done when you wake up.
Seriously, I had my aortic valve replaced with a mechanical one back in 1995. To do that, they had to collapse and move both lungs out of the way and then stop my heart. The only pain I had was when I sneezed the first time a couple of days after surgery... I didn't sneeze again for six months!:lol:
The doctors told me I couldn't drive because even a small impact with the steering wheel in an accident could kill me. They wanted me to get plenty of exercise when I came home, though. They said they wanted me to walk a lot, don't lift anything over 5 pounds with either arm, and stop when I was tired. So... the first couple of weeks I walked around the neighborhood twice a day. BORING! The third week, my wife went back to work and wasn't here to watch me, so I laid 40 feet of brick sidewalk! I carried two bricks in each hand (two bricks = about 3 pounds) and made hundreds of trips to the brick pile. The first day I only laid about 20 bricks (3 feet?), but each day I went a little farther. When the sidewalk was done, I didn't want to go back to walking the same boring part of the neighborhood, so I put a big elastic band around my chest and started riding my 18-speed mountain bike. I was all over town then. My wife didn't find out until I went back to work..:lol:
Seriously, I had my aortic valve replaced with a mechanical one back in 1995. To do that, they had to collapse and move both lungs out of the way and then stop my heart. The only pain I had was when I sneezed the first time a couple of days after surgery... I didn't sneeze again for six months!:lol:
The doctors told me I couldn't drive because even a small impact with the steering wheel in an accident could kill me. They wanted me to get plenty of exercise when I came home, though. They said they wanted me to walk a lot, don't lift anything over 5 pounds with either arm, and stop when I was tired. So... the first couple of weeks I walked around the neighborhood twice a day. BORING!
The third week, my wife went back to work and wasn't here to watch me, so I laid 40 feet of brick sidewalk! I carried two bricks in each hand (two bricks = about 3 pounds) and made hundreds of trips to the brick pile. The first day I only laid about 20 bricks (3 feet?), but each day I went a little farther. When the sidewalk was done, I didn't want to go back to walking the same boring part of the neighborhood, so I put a big elastic band around my chest and started riding my 18-speed mountain bike. I was all over town then. My wife didn't find out until I went back to work..:lol:
I had a great time in rehab. There was this cute little thing working in there. Every day when I would go, she would take my blood pressure. She would start by putting my hand under her arm. This would put one of her twins on my forearm. :shifty: Of course, being the DOM I am, my imagination would kick in and my blood pressure would go up. She would then tell me to sit down for a few minutes and try it again. What do you know, it would be OK then. :think:Had a lot of fun with that for 6 weeks. At the end of rehab she told me I should really watch my BP.:whistle:
Ron
She would then tell me to sit down for a few minutes and try it again. What do you know, it would be OK then. :think:Had a lot of fun with that for 6 weeks. At the end of rehab she told me I should really watch my BP.:whistle:Ron
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