True to his word, my Primary Care Physician pulled my tube hole stitches and prescribed some white superantibotic cream that caused all the angry red necrosis tissue around the tube holes to soften, dissolve and to come out in the shower.
Then three days later when saw me again he re-stitched the gaping pit holes shut with tape sutures as I had me two brand new belly buttons where the tubes had come out --- no I'm serious, the infection around the tube holes had gotten that bad, I had lost 1/8th to a quarter inch band of flesh around the tube holes themselves.
Good news is that I am growing new skin rapidly which is closing the holes up from the bottom up. Estimated time until full flush closure is 30 days.
I look like I got stabbed horizontally by a machete right above my right nipple and shot with a .38 wadcutter revolver twice right below my right nipple. But all wounds are pain free and healing well now.
But today is a red letter day.Two weeks post hospital release.
Unless the Primary Care guy gives me countermanding orders, I have a written release from the surgeon to go where I will and
to drive my own car to get there.
Pulse rate is down to 96 bpm and amplitude is good, pulse is strong and even. This is upper normal range and it will go down lower and lower as time goes on.
I am one week out from returning to Duke for my three week post-op surgical review. This is the last time I will go to Duke.
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I cannot believe people are letting surgeons talk them into putting in organic heart valves
that have to be replaced every 12 years (+/- three years).
Seriously, I was there in the Cardiac Unit with people 85 years old going through this shite for the THIRD time .....
This whole thing is a fantastically expensive pain in the chest (I thank Blue Cross and Blue Shield every time I look at my ongoing hospital bills and thank God as I PAID my deductable already).
I cannot imagine ever doing it again ........ ever.
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