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Hi John …. Hope the op went ok?
By now you should be 24 hrs of recovery and looking over where you have donated parts from to patch up your heart…

Possibly still on oxygen and pain relief so you may just want to sleep? Did that nasty nurse in the recovery room really just pull a couple of chest drains out and put plasters over the holes?

Once you get hold of the phone again you can catch up on the posts you missed , that might distract from any discomfort and you should be able to look forward to getting home in a week perhaps? You probably have more pills than you ever took before but don’t ignore the comfort the odd additional laxative might offer when you get to go but on a diet of jelly and ice cream and light foods you won’t get full too quick.

Best wishes get well again soon . 👍
 
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Thanks all, it means a lot, genuinely. Ended up having a quadruple bypass on Tuesday morning and still in intensive care.
I Had a bad first night where I woke with
pain so they had to do an xray and heart ultrasound but because of the swelling they couldn’t see much.my stats were low so had to have a blood transfusion.
Yesterday Afternoon was a bit better but
Didn’t sleep well last night and started to get chest pain in the evening and blood pressure dropped in the night again so was given morpheme and pain killers. Consultant has just been and said to give me another blood transfusion and keep me on dopamine .
I Starter hallucinating too yesterday. Really odd stuff like insects on my tablets and things moving round the room and something crawlingon the ceiling. Likely from all the drugs.
Not sure how long I’ll be on intensive care for but hope I can get off here soon to then start planning to go home!
 
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JohnT said:
Thanks all, it means a lot, genuinely. Ended up having a quadruple bypass on Tuesday morning and still in intensive care.
I Had a bad first night where I woke with
pain so they had to do an xray and heart ultrasound but because of the swelling they couldn’t see much.my stats were low so had to have a blood transfusion.
Yesterday Afternoon was a bit better but
Didn’t sleep well last night and started to get chest pain in the evening and blood pressure dropped in the night again so was given morpheme and pain killers. Consultant has just been and said to give me another blood transfusion and keep me on dopamine .
I Starter hallucinating too yesterday. Really odd stuff like insects on my tablets and things moving round the room and something crawlingon the ceiling. Likely from all the drugs.
Not sure how long I’ll be on intensive care for but hope I can get off here soon to then start planning to go home!
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Sounds like you have got through the worst of it, you are in good hands being in intensive care.
Hope the road to recovery gets easier now mate.

All the best.
 
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'Starter hallucinating too yesterday. Really odd stuff like insects on my tablets and things moving round the room and something crawlingon the ceiling. Likely from all the drugs.'
Glad the main part's over John, NHS has changed a bit though, didn't realise you could take your own recreational drugs in now, especially after such a serious op lol. Gave that all up myself after a planned experiment with a black microdot and a session of dragons lair at the local arcade bitd. Turned out that the dragons lair was the only thing that looked normal,man a hard 24hr trip that one clung to that stick, just shrooms and pool after that one lol.
General rule of thumb for come downs/early exit:
Acid trip=vitamin C(orange juice), Stoners/barbiturates=plenty of milk ,alcohol=vitamin B (B12 the best for zero hangover) and pill and coke heads just needed help(valium or 'mothers little helper')lol.
But seriously hallucinations are not nice if you've never experienced them, maybe they'll let you have a little orange juice to suppress them but could be a little acidic at the moment. Happy thoughts John and the creepy crawlies will turn to fluffy bunnies.
Time to heal now,much needs to knit back together but keep us informed when you feel up to it, try not to laugh too much(sorry). Keep calm and carry on,wishing you the speediest of recoveries buddy
 
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So I came out of intensive care last night afternoon 5 days and I’m now on a high dependency ward being monitored.
still got drips and canulars in my arm, wrist and neck and being given a concoction of all sorts of things. not allowed to walk much still until the dr does a review. Chestpain has settled alot, but still can’t lift much at the moment.
hardest thing now is that I’ve had no sleep or very Little quality sleep for the last week, either from noise of other people, machines etc or wires get caught and smart or you need to be given medication or have blood taken every few hours.
i do still feel quite disoriented, even typing this getting spelling right is hard or I’ll find myself writing the same word 3 or 4 times in a row. Odd and will hopefully pass!
 
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