I'm Back

• by SMITTY
• 2008-02-20 10:02:03
• General Posting
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Hello Folks,

I’m back. I got home late Tuesday. I had 2 more stents implanted in the RCA (right coronary artery). That makes three in that one vessel so the doctor told me. That gives me a total of six stents. When I look at a X-ray of my chest and see all the metal I have in my body, (6 stents, 7 pieces of wire where they tied me back together after the bypass surgery and a pacemaker with 2 leads) I think I may have a problem making it through a metal detector.

Anyway, it is too early to know how much good the stents will do, but they told me to give things a few days to get settled in. I'm not sure I understand all that, but we shall see how things are going about Saturday. I can say at least I don't feel any worse and I may feel a little better, and I know for certain Dottie and I both got some kind of tired. They started the prep for the stent at 7:30 AM and I got back to my room at 4 PM. They ran into some difficulty but I was never able to find out just what it was and I decided I really didn't care, so long as they got the job finished.

I can never say how much I appreciate all the nice words from so many of you.

Now I’m on my way to go jogging. Of course I’m lying. I guess old body tissue heals slowly, or something, because even my walking is restricted for a few days.