Yeah OK, I an’t no beauty but I have been sleeping.

And sleeping.

And sleeping.

and I am going to be sleeping some more.

I feel like someone slipped me a Mickey and I’m looking right at you Mr. Gabapentin 3 X a day.

Because when I am laying around on my narrow ass in bed I ain’t thrashing around, so I haven’t been taking the narcotics or the muscle relaxers.

Either way, I slept all day and fought for a half an hour to wake up enough to get out of bed and go take a piss.

I figured I’d post this update before I fall down again.

Hang in there, I’ll be back eventually.

crankier than ever.

See what a mess you made here?

And damn glad to be,

First off, I want to thank everyone for the well wishes and prayers.

There is zero doubt in my mind that they didn’t help, they actually helped immensely as it turned out the surgeons changed their plans at the last minute and it wound up they didn’t have to take the big poker and ram a tunnel from the right to the left side.

That would have doubled my hospital stay and recovery both.

They came up with a plan to go through my left groin with a thin wire up to the blockage, turn the wire somehow and go through between the inner wall and the middle wall of the artery and drop in a stent in front of the blockage, thus bypassing it. They then took the big metal poker and rammed a tunnel down my upper left thigh to just above the knee and installed an artificial artery down to the knee to bypass the blockage I had in my mid thigh on that side.

10 hours of surgery with 2 cardiovascular specialists and 2 units of blood.

Post Op was an absolute nightmare and I can only Thank God that I can’t remember a bunch of it right now.

Freezing, my teeth chattering uncontrollably and I was dying for some water but they wouldn’t give me any for what seemed an eternity.

Mercifully I passed back out several times but I did finally get some ice chips and sips of water while they waited to take me upstairs.

So I have 2, Four inch incisions being held together with some serious staples. I have massive bruising all down the inside of my forearm from all the needles and blood collecting ports. I also have massive bruising around my inner leg and around my waist on the right side and all they did there was stick a wire in to help with the other side. Even my Junk has bruising all over.

My upper, inner left thigh is very swollen and it’s going to be one giant bruise here in a day or two.

But I’m alive and very grateful to be so.

The doctor is very pleased at the increased amount of blood flow all the way to my toes and inner ankle and although it took a few days, that nagging 24/7 ache I had at the outer shin muscle on my left side isn’t there anymore.

This whole thing isn’t some kind of cure all but if I can get around even a little better without being in pain all the time I’ll take it.

I can already see that there is going to be a long rehab and healing process but I’ll take that as it comes.

I am in no way up to speed so posting on my part is going to be sporadic and right now I would personally like to thank CederQ for posting while I was gone and keeping the lights on.

Ya done good buddy.

Thank You.

I will cut it short here, I am still pretty wiped out from all the activity getting out of there and then getting settled back in here at home. The Wifely Unit is all over it so I am going to hit Send and take a nap.

Feel like I got run over by a truck but I’m Still Kicking.

I’m groggy as hell, hurting am still in ICU

They are supposed to be moving me sometime later today to a regular room

They came up with a change of plans at the last minute and I was spared getting Shishkabobbed across the belly from one side to the other so that is good.

Maybe later I will be able to explain what they did.

Right now I’m doing good just typing this out on my phone

Thanks for the prayers and well wishes.

Aaaand I’m out again.

Phil

I went in Monday at 7:30 to have several Ultrasounds done before the surgery. Lower abdomen and both legs.

The original plan was to have them ram a tunnel across my lower belly, thread an artificial artery through from one side to the other and splice the right side upper femoral artery to below the blockage they couldn’t get out on the left side and then ram another tunnel from the left side under the new splice down my thigh and reconnect to the Femoral artery just above the knee. The Untrasounds revealed a new narrowing in the artery just below the left knee so now plans have changed. I am going in this Friday at 7:00 for check in and they added another surgeon. They are going to do some Angioplasty on this newly discovered narrowing and put a stent in just below the knee so when they splice in from above there will be better blood flow down to my lower left leg which is the whole purpose of this surgery in the first place. They figure 6 hours even with 2 surgeons and probably 2 months to recuperate. Myself, I think it’s going to be longer because I m still not 100% healed up from the surgery last December.

It’s like I told CederQ, the only way forward is through and it is what it is. I am very much hoping that this does some serious good this time.

All prayers and well wishes are very welcome and I will be back as soon as I can as I will be taking my phone and laptop with me.

Take a few minutes and go check it out!