Scott
Member
Dang Hank! I hope you heal up quickly!
Scott.
Scott.
Well this Dr visit didn't go as expected
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Anyone have access to knowing how Hank is coming along? I know it's to early but we are all concerned.
He'll probably be back online before he leaves the hospital!
He'll probably be back online before he leaves the hospital!
Cwalker935
Member
Hank, good luck. I am hoping for a speedy and complete recovery for you. It's a good thing that they caught it when they did.
howsitwork
Member
Hank if it's open surgery get a teddy bear to hug for recovery afterwards - I kid you not ! If you sneeze or cough it pulls on chest muscles and that hurts. Hugging a teddy bear stops you over exerting and gives you a friendly momento 
Wishing you. rapid recovery and you won't believe the difference it makes ! I have friends and relatives who benefitted from similar surgery. Glad they caught it BEFORE it did damage and you found out the hard way.
Heres to a great 2024 for you and yours
Wishing you. rapid recovery and you won't believe the difference it makes ! I have friends and relatives who benefitted from similar surgery. Glad they caught it BEFORE it did damage and you found out the hard way.
Heres to a great 2024 for you and yours
Wishing you the best, Hank. You are in our prayers.
TellicoTurning
Member
Hank,
Last year was a low energy year for me... Doctor said I had an 80 or 90 percent closure in the Aortic valve.. he kept asking if I had chest pains or got out of breath .... I told him no chest pains ever, and yes I did get short of breath if I walked up the hill behind the house or did things that was an exertion for me... I was 82 years old.....
I had a valve job (TAVR) on my birthday last year, Sept 19, and today feel fine... if I do exertion, I will still get short of breath, but no so bad as last year... I do have more energy, just not as much motivation.... my wife collapsed and died on the second day I was home from the hospital, so I'm still dealing with that... otherwise I feel great. hopefully, you won't have any problems with the stints... they went up my groin to put in the new valve... it was a cow valve, so MOOOO!
Last year was a low energy year for me... Doctor said I had an 80 or 90 percent closure in the Aortic valve.. he kept asking if I had chest pains or got out of breath .... I told him no chest pains ever, and yes I did get short of breath if I walked up the hill behind the house or did things that was an exertion for me... I was 82 years old.....
I had a valve job (TAVR) on my birthday last year, Sept 19, and today feel fine... if I do exertion, I will still get short of breath, but no so bad as last year... I do have more energy, just not as much motivation.... my wife collapsed and died on the second day I was home from the hospital, so I'm still dealing with that... otherwise I feel great. hopefully, you won't have any problems with the stints... they went up my groin to put in the new valve... it was a cow valve, so MOOOO!
Todd in PA
Member
Sorry to hear the news. But glad they caught it before a crisis. Prayers for speedy recovery!
WriteON
Member
Good luck... in your corner.
egnald
Member
Hoping all the best for you and for a very speedy recovery. - Dave
leehljp
Member Liaison
Well 30 hours after and it hurts like xxxx. My health before the surgery has played a part in the recovery plan. Everyone is amazed that although it hurts, I can stand and walk so quickly - there has been discussions of leaving a couple of days earlier than originally planned.
Will report more as it comes about.
Will report more as it comes about.
Monty
Group Buy Coordinator
Glad to hear that you are recovering well.
greenacres2
Member
Glad to see you posting Hank, and that You are at least up and moving.
Now, the big question--will you be able to play the piano after the surgery?? Could you before???
earl
Now, the big question--will you be able to play the piano after the surgery?? Could you before???
earl
Jim15
Member
Glad to hear that all went well. You will remain in my prayers.
jttheclockman
Member
Hank good to hear everything is going as well as could be. Take your time and listen to Dr's . My sister had triple bypass 3 years ago and the same thing with her they had her up and around within a few days after surgery. I was surprised also to see the equipment today that monitor you is so small as compared to when my Dad had his some 28 years ago. The incisions are smaller and healing is alot faster. keep us up to date.
TellicoTurning
Member
I didn't have any pain from my "valve job", but the doctors wouldn't let get out of bed for almost 48 hours because of the fear of bleeding at the insertion site... I did have some bleeding where they punched a hole in my aortic vein in the upper leg... but I'm also on blood thinners that slows the coagulation some... by the end of the second day I had stopped bleeding and now only have a little dark spot where they went in.
leehljp
Member Liaison
No,, but I can Hit higher notes on the voice scale!
And I am not a singer by any means!
leehljp
Member Liaison
At this hospital, They give each person a big stuffed (valentine) heart shaped pillow to hug. I had to use it this morning big time.!Hank if it's open surgery get a teddy bear to hug for recovery afterwards - I kid you not ! If you sneeze or cough it pulls on chest muscles and that hurts. Hugging a teddy bear stops you over exerting and gives you a friendly momento
Wishing you. rapid recovery and you won't believe the difference it makes ! I have friends and relatives who benefitted from similar surgery. Glad they caught it BEFORE it did damage and you found out the hard way.
Heres to a great 2024 for you and yours
leehljp
Member Liaison
My tubes had some blood, but the nurses said mine was very little.
leehljp
Member Liaison
I don't have any references as to sizes from that far back, but these tubes sure seem large to me. But I am taking it one day at a time. I was told "no driving" for several weeks.
mark james
IAP Collection, Curator
It's great to see you posting so soon. As a community of members that have some experience with your issues, are realizing the possibility of experiencing your issues, or can learn from what you are going through - this points to an intangible strength of IAP: common interests have brought us together for a 'community' that is more than woodturning.
Curly
Member
Glad you are on the mend Hank.
Don't get the hick ups.
Don't get the hick ups.
SteveJ
Member
So you can't drive, but can you get back in the shop and turn pens for the BASH?
leehljp
Member Liaison
Wish I could. LOML won't let me. She said if I could turn a pen I could do some of her small "honey do's". I'll stay inside an write some, and do a puzzle or two or three with her - and drink my coffee or hot chocolate.
With a blood vessel ripped out in two places for the bypass - leg and mammelry gland, I'm not in a hurry to get active. I was surprised that they use a blood vessel from the chest. I didn't know that. They didn't sew up the places where they take out blood vessels, they CA them (super glue). Nurse was surprised when I said "CA". "You know that?" Me: Yes, we use that term when finishing pens. Then I had to explain that process to her.
Hank,
It's great to hear from you so soon! Hope healing is quick. It's too early to realize it yet but you will be stronger and healthier in the near future.
We are all continuing to pray for your quick return to penturning.
I don't know if it would work here, but when in high school the girls had an exercise to strengthen their chest. It went something like "We must we must we must increase our bust, the bigger the better the tighter the sweater the boys depend on us". I always felt this was a sound practice.
Keep active, stay positive, it will take time, but you'll realize the pain was worth the gain.
Get well soon Hank. Remember you gotta play this one on your wife, about how you can not do a honey do list for at least a year. But turning will increase your strength!
It's great to hear from you so soon! Hope healing is quick. It's too early to realize it yet but you will be stronger and healthier in the near future.
We are all continuing to pray for your quick return to penturning.
I don't know if it would work here, but when in high school the girls had an exercise to strengthen their chest. It went something like "We must we must we must increase our bust, the bigger the better the tighter the sweater the boys depend on us". I always felt this was a sound practice.
Keep active, stay positive, it will take time, but you'll realize the pain was worth the gain.
Get well soon Hank. Remember you gotta play this one on your wife, about how you can not do a honey do list for at least a year. But turning will increase your strength!
Woodchipper
Member
Lee, glad to hear things are going well.
My SIL's brother had open heart surgery and valve replacement. Told: 12 days in the hospital. Wrong! Up and walking the next day and was only in the hospital for three days. There are still miracles!
My SIL's brother had open heart surgery and valve replacement. Told: 12 days in the hospital. Wrong! Up and walking the next day and was only in the hospital for three days. There are still miracles!
leehljp
Member Liaison
My doctor came by and said "the widow maker was totally occluded" (stopped up). Could not get a line through it. God was with you!" Dr. Garrott is turning in the orders for a step-down. If they have a room tonight, I will go then, if not then tomorrow or when they get a room.
I never was short of breath when I was helping build churches or helping other people with their work. Doc said "not everyone gets that warning. You didn't."
BTW, now have 4+ inches of Yankee snow
(I love it) down here and I can't look at it till in the morning.
I never was short of breath when I was helping build churches or helping other people with their work. Doc said "not everyone gets that warning. You didn't."
BTW, now have 4+ inches of Yankee snow
(I love it) down here and I can't look at it till in the morning.
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Woodchipper
Member
Again, glad everything is going well. We have had maybe 1-1/2 inches of snow here. Odd but places further west got more snow. Memphis, TN was hit hard. Our truck is covered in ice.
LouCee
Member
Hank, Great to hear that your surgery went well and glad it was discovered when it was. You mentioned the heart pillow they gave you, last year I had an aortic dissection and they also gave me a heart pillow to use when coughing.
If they offer cardiac rehab I would suggest doing it. When the cardiologist first mentioned it to me I passed on it because I wasn't sure if I wanted to. On the next office visit it was mentioned again and I decided to go ahead and try it. What I'm doing is 3 days a week for 3 months, I'll be finished at the end of this month, glad I did it.
If they offer cardiac rehab I would suggest doing it. When the cardiologist first mentioned it to me I passed on it because I wasn't sure if I wanted to. On the next office visit it was mentioned again and I decided to go ahead and try it. What I'm doing is 3 days a week for 3 months, I'll be finished at the end of this month, glad I did it.
leehljp
Member Liaison
I am in Memphis Baptist Memorial (formerly Baptist East). I was just today able to look out the window to see the snow!
I Started Cardiac Rehab today. Tomorrow, it will be three times a day for about 20 minutes each time, then the same for Thursday. Then, Next week or two I will start three times a week. Currently, the rehab site for Baptist Memorial has a 3 to 4 week backup to get started. There is a closer site to my home (by about 20 miles) but I am not sure of the delay there.
Alan Morrison
Member
Hank......3rd John v 2.
leehljp
Member Liaison
The guy that takes all of the electrical data from all of those stickers came by to read my blood sugar level. He said: "I watched you on your first walk with the PT. You did better than most do on their last walk before being released. Except for some doctor requirements, your PT is going to be short.
I still am going to take it easy and not jump back into all the heavy physical work that I had been doing helping others. Except for the little old ladies, I am going to try more "teaching" others "how" to do the work. But I don't know how to teach light switch/outlet changing out. That is something that takes a "mindset", which many do not have!
I still am going to take it easy and not jump back into all the heavy physical work that I had been doing helping others. Except for the little old ladies, I am going to try more "teaching" others "how" to do the work. But I don't know how to teach light switch/outlet changing out. That is something that takes a "mindset", which many do not have!
YoYo
Member
Wow! At least they found the cause of your low energy! I'm sure you'll be fine
. Speedy recovery! Hopefully, when you are recovered you can show me how to sharpen the carbite blade and my kitchen knives. Take care.
bmac
Member
Thoughts and prayers for a speedy recovery!!!
howsitwork
Member
Glad to know you're on the mend Hank, although if you try the " can't do those jobs honey til I built up my strength by turning "line ! Your survival maybe in doubt