UPDATE ON DH's SURGERY

Carrie72 · #1 (**permalink**) 03-21-2007, 09:41 PM

Hello everyone! Thought i would drop in to say hi and to let you know how my dh's surgery went. As most of you know, Lee had open heart surgery on Friday, March 16th. The surgeon spent an hour trying to repair Lee's mitral valve prolapse, but wasnt able to because of the condition it was in so he had to replace it with a mechanical valve. DH now says he sounds like a watch ticking! Poor guy...bless his heart! It doesnt bother me at all but he said it bothers him a little. He is so weak and tired and most times, in a lot of pain(they gave him Darvocet for pain). I still feel so bad for him but at least now i dont have to worry about him going into heart failure and dying, which is what would have happened if he didnt have the surgery! The surgeon did such an excellent job! Im so glad he was able to come home today(Wed. 21st), i've missed him terribly and spent quite a few nights crying!! I have to give credit to you ladies who have husbands in the military, i dont know how you can stand it when they're deployed! Lee was at the hosp. for 5 days and i was a crying nervous wreck! His heart was enlarged quite a bit and when they put the mechanical valve in they had to go with the biggest one they had and the surgeon said if they would have had one just a 1 size bigger he would have used that instead but he was able to make this one fit pretty snug he said. THANK GOD!!! (which i did! spent MANY nights praying!) No wonder DH had trouble bd'ing(without viagra), there literally was not enough blood flow getting down there! A lot of his blood was going backwards through his mitral valve and right back up into his heart! Again, thank God it's now fixed!!! As far as the bd'ing goes, we were told to wait about 6 wks. to allow his breast bone to heal(because they had to crack it) and then after that it was pretty much up to Lee...just whenever he feels ready/up for it. We were told that he probably wont need the viagra anymore. He does have to take a blood thinner(Coumadin) for the rest of his life however, to keep blood clots from forming around his new mechanical valve. Im just VERY HAPPY he's alive and home

I missed all of you so much but i didnt have much time to get online and say anything---always at the hosp. I would come home to eat(very very little) and sleep(also very little!) then i was off back to the hosp. which is an hour away from our house. It was all worth it though. Now im just concentrating on nursing DH back to health. After that, maybe a couple of months from now i'll go back on the Femara and we can try again for a baby. How has everybody been? Any new

's out there?!? Oh i hope so!!!