Thread: Got an enlarged heart? Get it checked out

You might have to do some drawing for a while Rocker.

Originally Posted by Rocker

Here are the pictures of the scars left by my surgery; as you can imagine, Panadol is a regular component of my diet just now.

Photo 1 shows the chest wounds; the two round holes on either side of the main cut are where the two 10 mm drain pipes emerged from my chest; the small pinholes are where the pacer wires temporarily attached to my heart emerged.

Photo 2 shows the thigh wound from which the femoral vein was harvested.

Photo 3 shows the calf wound from which it was originally intended to harvest the vein material.

Rocker

Gee Rocker they certainly carved you up. When they did mine the cut in my chest was only half that length and when they stripped the vein out of my leg I only had a cut about 1" long at the ankle and the side of my knee and a half inch cut up near my groin and then they stripped the vein out with some sort of a tube thing from one hole to the other and I didn't have any thing like that . They must have been a bit knife happy.

Yep get well soon mate!

Barry,

I suppose, with me being an old phart and all, maybe they thought my veins would not stand up to being ripped out as you describe. Anyway, the main thing is that the heart surgery appears to have been well done, and I certainly feel far better than I did before the operation. Presumably the pain of the wounds will only last about another week, and I should then be fine.

Rocker

Wow! What a way to join the zipper club, certainly a lot bigger than I expected to see

Glad you doing well and in good spirits

Originally Posted by jow104

Some nice looking scratches there Rocker. Hope the stitches are the type that desolve.

So take a breather and spend a little time admiring your past efforts and plan your workload for next season.

John,

These days, they don't use stitches at all. They just use a transparent tape to hold the wound together. The two sides of the wound fuse together, so that, after about three days, the tape is stripped off and the wound is then left open to the air with no dressing or ointment. It seems to have worked well with me.

Rocker

Best of luck with your recovery Rocker

woodcutta

New to me Rocker, sounds better than the old fashioned way.

It is seven weeks now since I had my surgery, and I am happy to report that I feel 100% better than before it. Ten days ago I climed Mt Beerburrum in the Glasshouse mountains. The climb is 180 metres in vertical height at a gradient of 1:3.9, over a distance of 700 metres. When I reached the top, I was no more puffed than a healthy 70-year-old would be.

Lipitor and a low-fat diet have lowered my total cholesterol from 5.0 mmol/L a year ago to 2.7 mmol/L now, and lowered my LDL (bad) cholesterol from 3.07 mmol/L to 1.07 mmol/L, which puts me at low risk of further cardiovascular disease. It seems to be a pretty convincing demonstration that good diet and cholesterol-lowering drugs can have a dramatic effect on your blood cholesterol levels.

Rocker

Great to see that you are okay now.


Peter.

Sounds like you are one fit bugga Rocker. Glad to hear that it went so well.

All the best.

prozac

Good to hear your news, have you got the equivalent of the 10 Tors in Queensland?

Good news Rocker, glad you are doing so well

Great news David