Welcome to my day to day journal of having open heart surgery.

When I started this blog I was not sure if I would need surgery but after many tests and doctors visits I had valve replacement surgery on June 23, 2010. I was born with a congenital heart defect, a bicuspid aortic valve. My blog reads backwards (like all blogs)....not like a story in chronological order...so go all the way to the beginning (here) to read about my history and how this all got started.

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Friday, July 2, 2010

I am back in the hospital

Last night, after dinner and my parents went home, I started coughing and air kept bubbling up. Making me cough and nausea. I was very bad. We called surgeons office
And she gave us a choice of coming in to an emergency room
Or trying to wait it out and see how it goes. Well. I could not stop the bubbles or coughing. So dan decided to take me to stafford hospital. **** a bad choice****. We were transfer by ambulance to fairfax. I got here around 4 am. Had another chest ct and a chest xray. Also did a abdominal ct. No word yet but they are ruling out and infection in the fluid buildup on my sternum


UPDATE:
2 surgeons came in and after reviewing the tests they do see fluid around the aorta and poss elsewhere( I will clarify that). They want me to have another chest ct with contrast this time to rule out infection. Neither seemed to concerned and I feel so much better. A little morphine and antibiotic drips have done wonders! So they are keeping me another night. I am sure they will let me go in the morning unless the test shows something worse.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Robin
Sorry you had to make a return trip to the hospital but if there are problems that is where you need to be. I hope that your stay will be short and that you continue on the road to a full recovery. You take care don't let this setback discourage you. You have done an outstanding job.
God bless
Aunt Carol Marie

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