Monday, June 23, 2014

Winter 13-14, still above ground after all.

I am forever thankful to God, Connie, Bryan, Dr. K. and our Happy Trails family.
This last winter has seen us go thru selling our RV lot in Happy Trails, buying our house in Happy Trails, selling our house in Del Webb Festival, moving and surviving open heart surgery. Other than that........
I may lose some of you with what I have chosen to blog about, it has nothing to do with travels but:
March 1, 2014
Well I am finally writing with the Ipad, sitting in my recliner typing away. The keys are a little close but I will get used to that, or I just might use it as an excuse.

I am writing about my personal journey thru open-heart surgery and recovery, scary stuff for sure. I have been diagnosed with severe stenosis of the Aortic heart valve and a partially blocked artery. The heart valve is a congenital abnormality I have had since birth (I think Mom had a gin and tonic at the wrong time). Well, actually, if she hadn’t had that drink, I might not be, period.

I have known about the problem for a long time, it showed up as a heart murmur. I've had many sonograms over the years, checking the progressive deterioration. But, since I retired I had put it in a back corner of my mind. In October when I heard the Doctor say "your heart murmur is extremely loud" I thought, "Oh crap". My Doctor sent me to get another sonogram and I thought "well that's o.k. I have been thru dozens of these, no problem". Even when I was referred to "Cardiac Solutions" (a group of specialists) I thought they would run thru the test with me and that would be that. When the cardiologist said, "You need surgery", whatever he said after that was not registering as my mind was running over and over that word "surgery". I left the office in a daze, trying to convince myself that he meant something else, "but what else rhymes with surgery.” ------ Oh crap!

More to come soon.






1 comment:

Rich & Dorothy said...

4112Soooooo glad you are able to continue!!!!