I am up sitting in a chair waiting for breakfast after being hosed down by thie very pleasant medical tech. (I have given up all notions of modesty. The tech says the same. She has seen them all she says.)
I had one weird and frightening thing happen in the Cardiac Anesthesiology Recovery Unit (don't call it the ICU.) I was there a for a few hours and felt a bit of nausea and, as any Bojsza would, suppressed it. Then I fell asleep although not in a good way. My pulse dropped and, apparently, I would not respond to the staff. I finally came to with eight people yelling my name and my field of vision filled with that visual white noise you used to see on a television that wasn't tuned to a station.
That freaked me out. I was afraid to fall asleep for a bit after that.
My attending cardiologist says that the wiring that keeps the heart pumping runs passed the site of the aortic valve and that could cause such a reaction. Since the valve is slightly swollen at first it can mess with the wiring.
Today I will walk walk walk, I am told. I M looking forward to it. I am on track for going home on Thursday.
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