Here's a visual recap of my crazy week. As always... more to come... eventually...
Sisters making a good luck "heart" with our hands, before going into surgery.
Looking pretty worn out, eh? Heck, they pretty much induced a heart attack, deadly arrhythmias, paced my heart, and shocked it with electrical currents, etc. My body went through a LOT! I'm looking pretty good in this picture, ha!
Recovering in the hospital with my mom. Notice the blood pressure cuff I had to wear 24/7. It squeezed my arm every 5 minutes. Try sleeping with that sucker on. Even after my atrial septal defect repairs I STILL have dangerously low blood pressure.
The view from my hospital room at
Columbia University Medical Center, New York Presbyterian Hospital. They wouldn't put me on the VIP floor this time. I was put into an observation room with a glass wall opposite the nurse's station on the cardiac floor. At least I got the bed next to outside window. :) My room was directly over the front door to the hospital.
Get me out of here! Enough of these wires already!
Home at last! Rocking my "Congenital Heart Defects, Nobody's Perfect" t-shirt.
1 comments:
I'm so glad it's behind you now and hope that this is your last surgery. The experience sounds so traumatic.
Say hi to your mom and Alison for me!
~Kelly B.
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